United States Teacher Blogs

The first blog I found was Mr. C's class blog. Mr. C is a fifth grade teacher at Noel Elementary School in Noel, Missouri. Mr. C had a great blog that had a lot of information. Some of the things that Mr. C included in his blog were class pictures, class videos, and notes from class lessons. The thing that most drew my attention on Mr. C's class blog was a post that linked his class to a class in Australia. Mr. C made it an assignment for the students in his fifth grade class to access Mr. Lamshed's class blog in Adelaide, Australia. Both Mr. C and Mr. Lamshed's classes were reading the book Holes. Mr. Lamshed had posted three reflection questions on chapters one through seven, so Mr. C made it an assignment for the children in his classroom to access Mr. Lamshed's blog and post a comment relating to one of the three reflection questions. To me this was absolutely awesome. It is great that technology has come this far in order to help students connect with students all across the world.

The second blog I looked at was Mr. McClung's class blog. Mr. McClung is a sixth grade teacher at Noel Elementary School in Noel, Missouri. Mr. McClung just like Mr. C had a lot of great information on his blog for the students in his classroom to see. Some of the things that he included on his class blog were slide show presentations, pictures and videos from school functions, and names of people in his class who received academic awards. The main thing on Mr. McClung's class blog that drew my attention was a post titled "Tulsa Update." Mr. McClung had to be absent for school to attend a coaching clinic, so he kept in touch with his students using the class blog. In the post Mr. McClung told his students that he was learning great information at the coaching clinic, but he also told them that he had been monitoring their behavior on the class live stream. The point of Mr. McClung's blog was that technology has now made life easier for teachers and substitute teachers. Mr. McClung was able to communicate with the class substitute using the class blog about instructions for student assignments, and he was also able to monitor how well the substitute was able to handle the classroom. This to me is another awesome feature that technology has brought to us over the past couple of years, and I think that it is great that more teachers are starting to use the resources they have available to them through technology.