In years past, a person had to have a good amount of resources to write and publish something that was available for everyone to read. Now, all one needs is a blog. Blogs are pages that allow the authors to write on any subject they want to tackle. These are great for education since it allows educators to network and read ideas and tricks from other educators that will allow them to gain fresh ideas to take back to their classroom. There are blogs for every topic that is imaginable. The trick is to find useful ones.
Discovery Resources
1. Go to the Blogger About page and read about the history of Blogger.com.
2. Go to the Blogger Features page and read about the resources that are available through Blogger.com.
3. Search for some topics of interest from Google Blog Search.
4. Read the Blog entry from Wikipedia.
Discovery Exercise
1. Create a blog from Blogger.com. If you have a Google account, you can use these credentials.
2. Write about some of the Blogs that you came across during your blog search.
3. Give some ideas on how you can use your blog to communicate with other educators, parents and students.
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