International Blogs

The first international blog I looked at was Mr. Lamshed's class blog in Adelaide, Australia. Mr. Lamshed's class is the class from Australia that linked itself to Mr. C's class in Noel, Missouri that I wrote about last week. His class is an all boy class. Mr. Lamshed's blog was a blog that had a lot of great information about his class. Some of the things Mr. Lamshed included on his blog were videos, photos, learning links, notices and newsletters, and online tasks. When looking at Mr. Lamshed's blog, I was really amazed at all of the work he had put into his blog. Mr. Lamshed wrote at least once a week about what the children in his class were working on. He included everything from assignments for the students in his class to work on to videos recording what the students were working on.

The second blog I looked at was a blog out of Thailand. The name of this blog was Room 202's blog. Just like all of the other school blogs I have looked at, this class blog included videos, pictures, and information about what the children were doing in the classroom. The blog post that interested me the most was a post titled "Connecting with Canada." The basic summary of this post was that this class from Thailand was connecting with a class from Haultain Community School in Canada via Skype which is a free video conferencing tool. According to the blog post some of the things that the classes discussed over the video conference included temperature differences, class size and school size differences, and nationality differences. It was really amazing to me that these two classes could connect through technology to compare differences in between schools.