The blog tagline read, "An interactive log for students and parents in my AP Calculus class. This ongoing dialogue is as rich as YOU make it. Visit often and post your comments freely." And a snippet from a recent post starts, "Some 44 years ago (when I was about your age) my father who used to travel a lot, penned a letter to me and enclosed a short article clipped from a magazine. In that letter, he wished for me a life of purpose and joy. The enclosed clipping described such a life and quoted George Bernard Shaw whose words you can read above.

I carried that article with me for years; unfortunately, somewhere in the many moves, it was lost. ..."

Darren Kuropatwa is the Department Chair and a math teacher in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His students are writing their own textbook with their blogging. He also features The Blogging Hall of Fame which highlights exemplary student work.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it. Here's a snippet from a randomly selected post, "I am actually at home working on my Ed.S paper. I think I've decided to analyze my first semester's use of the blog--not the fall AP Lit class but the spring AP Language group. I've read through some of their posts and I think I will have more to work with as far as content and the dynamics of using the blog. Speaking of which, Caroline, I actually read your February 2006 post where you analyzed Blanche's speech from SCND. Had you read it before AP Lit. or were you just interested in the speech?"

This is a snippet from a recent post, "I have to admit, I'm beginning to like this a great deal despite myself, my own wariness of technology and the ways that I personally romanticize the pen and ink.

Many of you have posted some favourite quotes; below are some of mine, first recorded in the pages of my own journal. I'd love to see one of the class bloggers reflect on or respond to one of them. They all happen to involve writing. ..."

A blog by Ms. by Ms. Kirsten Corson

Here is a snippet from a recent post on this high school photography class blog, "Arts Alive was a huge success thanks to all the help form all of our students and the great partiticipation of family, friends, teachers, administrators, custodians, and librarians. This was the best event yet! Check out the photos taken my Brittney McCree and Zack Crabb of the Chalk Art event! The photo album is on the sidebar on the left!"

The blog tagline reads, "Prompts for student reflection. Students, read these prompts and respond on your own Blog. Place a link to your Blog in the comments under the latest prompt.

"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details." -- Albert Einstein"

This snippet from a recent post, "I ask my 5 year old, everyday, if she did her best that day. I ask my softball players to do their best every practice and every game. I ask my students to do their best every day. What does this mean to you? How does it apply to math class? Does it go beyond math? Beyond School?"

This blog is presented by Captain Harp in Sacramento, California.

The blog tagline reads, "Check my blog often to earn extra credit points and receive exciting class news!" A snippet from a recent post, "This summer, five students will travel to Alaska to complete a two-week Earthwatch expedition. In order to make this trip possible, a fundraiser will be held on Friday, February 23rd. The fundraiser, “Adventures in Science Night”, will consist of two events:

1. 3rd – 5th graders from 3:30-5:30
2. Middle school grades from 6:30-8:30

Attendents will enjoy fun science labs and pizza during the event. The cost is $25/child. However, it is free to volunteer! We need a lot of help and your assistance will be greatly appreciated. Please see me to sign up."

And the teacher's home page has a countdown timer (days, hours, minutes, and seconds) until her 2007 - 2008 Biology Class starts! Do you sense she loves her job?

The blog tagline reads, "Thoughts, observations, comments, and concerns regarding our readings and classroom discussions." A snippet from a recent post, "Moment of silence please, yes, it is true, our last day has finally arrived. We promptly took care of our computer battery issue, and told Smith the hours and battery levels of our deeeelightful computish type laptops hooray!!!

Then there was the whole semester project work day situation. My group is done hahaha, but for all those slackers who did not finish yet, this day was prolly a truly smashing experience. The project is due by the final which is next week by the way hahaha. You either need to put it in the drop box or have it on a USB, by the time they are due."

Welcome to woodchurchscience. These pages and posts are maintained by Mr. Warren in the UK.

This blog features a mobile phone link for those students who want to receive posts on their cell phones. This is from a student post, "Here’s a picture from microsoft virtual earth looking directly into the cone of mount vesuvius. You can zoom in further here. Here you can see a stack of images from the last major eruption in 1944."

The blog tagline reads, "All things computer, all things technical are discussed here. DON"T use your full name or reveal anything about emails, cell phones or anything else personal!"

This snippet from a recent student post, "Spam has been a huge threat to the technology industry since email was introduced. Spammers, or as many of us call them, people lacking a life, use many insidious tricks to put their frustrating messages in our “Inbox” folder. Among these many ways to convince themselves that they are not useless, spammers use viruses to hijack other people’s computers, because they are very selfish. ..."

This computer Arts course blog is maintained by Brian McLaughlin.