Blogger: A person who creates an online weblog for others to view.
Feed Burner: Feedburner is a web service that allows you to enhance and refine custom RSS feeds. It can be used for converting blog feeds into podcast feeds. It can also insert advertising into RSS feeds.
2 Cents Worth: A website by David Warlick that serves as a blog for him about many different aspects of life, with a focus on education.
Interesting Educational Blogs:
Of the ten educational blogs I reiewed, these are the top three that I think are most beneficial to educators:Blog 1: Bump on the Blog by Brian Grenier
This was a very fun blog to read. There were some good teacher jokes on this page that showed that Brian has a good personality. I liked reading about his background in social studies, because that's what I will be doing. He had a lot of interesting tips on technology use that I found quite useful. He had a whole serie of tech videos on creating google websites that were very informative. All in all, this was a very original website/ blog spot.
Blog 2: Generation Yes
This blog is absolutely huge. It was started by a couple of tech teachers and was meant as a resource for developing technology in schools. There are many Generation Yes schools in the U.S. The idea is interesting because they want to teach their kids how to teach, and not just be good learners. They want students to be actively involved in learning through technology. This blog has an enormous amount of categories in all types of pertinent subjects in education which makes it a vital resource to educators.
Blog 3: Students 2.0
This blog allows students from all over the world to voice their opions about education and the classroom. This seemed like a very unorthodox website, but as I reviewed it I realized how important it is to see students communitcating about classroom projects and activites. The blog comments are monitored for quality and substance, so you don't have students trashing teachers or sending hate mail. It was very interesting to see the wide variety of topics that students discussed, such as pedagogy, art, science, and even philosophy. I like this blog because it gives teachers a chance to see what students are saying about their classrooms. It can often be hard to get good feedback from students about a lecture activity, so this blog can be a very positive tool for teachers.
