Good teachers constantly search for good ideas and effective ways to make learning fun, efficient and thorough. So the search for new material and new ideas is constant.
Same on the web. Where are the good blogs? Where are the useful blogs? (Many days readers here ask those questions repeatedly.)
You’re a teacher, parent, or administrator? Take a look at this open thread at Clay Burrell’s Beyond Teaching (“I hate schooliness. I love learning.”) Clay asked for recommendations on favorite blogs about 21st century teaching.
Isn’t it astounding how many new, good teacher blogs show up every year? I found a dozen new sources in a few minutes.
Hi ,
I think you have reached sky high with your turbulent ideas.so interesting to take a look on your blog.I’m an English teacher and i’d like my students to take a look on your blog.I wonder if you don’t mind to add you to my blogroll,and mine to yours.
all the best,
Aziz
I post twice weekly about Internet technologies in the classroom, and how use them to engage students and motivate learning. I also frequently mention other good Ed Tech sites there and in my Tweets. Stop by and take a look! Thanks.
- Kelly Walsh
http://www.EmergingEdTech.com
This is not exactly a blog but I think teachers will like this site.
MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids
(http://www.meetmeatthecorner.org). New episodes are uploaded every two weeks. Each topic comes with a list of fun websites for kids and a Learning Corner of questions and extended activities.
I collect Tundra Teacher blogs– those in the Arctic and sub-Arctic who are employed as teachers. Usually these are blogs from folks new to teaching and new to Alaska.
Some are appalling in the knowledge they have (not), either about teaching, about science, about religion, about Alaska, and especially about Alaska Natives.
Probably most drop off blogging after the initial thrill.
However, there are some with outstanding writing or photography (the Canadian and the Kotzebue blogs). Typically, the blogs are usually not about teaching per se [because they are teacher blogs and not educator blogs?]
I think as a whole they say a lot about the how-not-tos of training teachers, recruiting teachers, retaining teachers, educating students, i.e., the education system in the US today. I really wish there were a way to analyze new and existing teachers’ experience, even the stuff that shouldn’t be publicly revealed, as a means to improve rural and minority education.
I think the “system” isn’t fair (is dishonest) towards teachers and administrators. As a consequence, the schools are generally not fair to students. Because of their overwhelming influence in communities, positive and negative, how schools/teachers/principals behave and their attitudes affect communities disproportionately.
Tundra Teachers