I reviewed the blog sites:
weblogg-ed.com
thethinkingstick.com
speedofcreativity.org
These sites had some interesting information. It was interesting to see how the sites took everyday issues and transformed them into lessons for students or teachers. On the site speedocreativity.org, they talk about the Gilbert Godfrey and Aflac issue around the freedom of speech on social media. The site took the issue and translated it into a sort of lesson on how much freedom of speech one has when they represent an entity, such as a teacher working for a school and the teacher's unofficial representation. It was like a warning for teacher's. On the other side, it talked about how to teach children that rash words can have detrimental consequences and talked about building a lesson around social media and freedom of speech for students. The other sites dealt with real teacher issues, such as technology in the classroom and how teacher's can and should adapt.
I can see these sites as references for teacher's as they provide valuable information to teacher's, both concerning the social aspect of the teacher and lesson planning. Every teacher should have some sort of teacher community reference that goes behind the school that they work in; a more global community.
I am still somewhat concerned on the use of blogs for children in school, but I am sure that more research using teacher blogs could lead me to very secure sites that school-age children could use. However, for teacher's, becoming a member of one of these global blogs would be a huge benefit to their art of teaching and give them a sounding board when they run into difficult situations.
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