Teacherswhoblog

This is a great place to start if you want to learn more about what other teachers are doing in their classrooms and how many of them use blogging as a personal reflection, an opportunity to learn and create and a way to continue educational discussions with other educators around the world. Running since 2004, the Edublogs awards have been a portal to a range of award winning online sites that have been nominated under the following categories. Check out [|best individual blogs], [|best group blog], [|best new blog], [|best resource sharing blog], [|most influential blog post], [|best teacher blog], [|best librarian/library blog], [|best educational tech support blog], [|best elearning/corporate education blog], [|best educational use of audio blog], [|best educational use of audio/visual blog], [|best educational use of a wiki], [|best educational use of a social networking service], [|best educational use of a virtual world]. [|Global Teacher Web 2.0 and Community and Research Project]: this link contains the blogs of many teachers in Victoria as well as lots of links to other sites and ideas. [|Info Tech with Mr Losik] is a blog by a teacher in Hamilton Michigan and focuses on the world of educational online resources for teachers and students. [|Jess McCullogh] is a teacher at Hawkesdale P-12 who maintains a [|blog about Web2.0 in the classroom.] As a LOTE teacher she has a particular interest in the way the internet can support the learning and experiences of teaching and learning a second language. [|Anne Mirtschin] is also at Hawkesdale P-12. Her [|On an e-journey with generation Y] is a wonderfully interesting blog written by a fellow teacher in a P-12 school in a rural setting. Sue Wyatt is a teacher in Tasmania who has only been blogging since February 2008. Her blog, entitled [|Miss W & her Smartboard] shows that she certainly hit the ground running. Keep an eye on it.
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 * [|21st Century Skills]** by **Mark Collinson**, a teacher in Qld, Australia. Mark writes about 21st Century Learners. Literacy & Learning in the digital age.

In **[|2cents Worth]**, **David Warlick** explores the changing nature of information and ways that it changes our notions of what it means to be literate in the 21st century.


 * [|Simply Science]John Pearce** is a primary teacher from Geelong, Victoria. In the Simply Science blog he reflects about teaching Science in the primary school. John also keeps a blog about [|using Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom]. and a third blog about [|using ICT in the classroom.]


 * [|Betchablog]** is a blog written by **Chris Betcher** who teaches in Sydney Australia. His blog around technology plus education plus ideas discusses many valid and interesting issues around pedagogy,Web 2.0 applications and the use of technology in general. Chris also creates a podcast called **[|The Virtual Staffroom]** which showcases many interesting educators from all over the world.


 * [|CoolCatTeacher]**- a blog written by **Vicki Davis.** Vicki is a teacher of world renown who most famously has co-created The Flat Classroom wiki based on the notion of 'flattening' the world by using Web 2.0 tools. To learn more go here


 * [|123eLearning]** is a blog written by **Julie Lindsay**, a colleague of Vicki Davis who teaches in Qatar. Her blog exists to share ideas about E-Learning, ICT integration and digital literacy in education.


 * [|IHistory]** is a very comprehensive blog created around using podcasts [|in the teaching of history] by **Dave Fagg** a history teacher in [|Eaglehawk, Bendigo,] Victoria. There are great tutorials on how to use and create podcasts here.


 * [|ICTGuy]** is **Darrel Branson** who works as the ICT Educator for the Sunraysia Mallee Schools Network in Mildura in the North West of Victoria, Australia. His blog is about the integration of technology in the classroom. He has lots of tutorials and great ideas. Darrel has done a lot of work with Scratch and this is worth checking out.

T[|hinking Curriculum] which explores the notion of the thinking curriculum in the educational context, at a statewide level and at the school and classroom level. Along the way Rob provides links to online tools that he has created.
 * [|Learning in Progress]** is written by **Rob Costello** a teacher also in North West Victoria. Rob has also created a great site called the


 * [|Think Wonder and Learn with the Web]** is **Anne Baird's** documentation of the work done at Wedderburn College as well as commenting on the work of other teachers who are doing great things with Web 2.0.

[|Support Blogging: Links to School Bloggers] Amazing list of educational bloggers, examples of classroom blogs and administrator blogs. Hours and hours of reading here.