Matt Stoller from MYDD asks this question as part of a post:
The blogging and education question has me noodling, because I’ve learned a lot from blogging my thoughts out and reading your comments and emails. It seems to me that blogging is a natural educational tool that helps students find their real voices and understand writing and the grammar of multimedia. So I’m wondering, do you know of any successful classroom blogging projects?
Over the last ten months I’ve come across a plethora of discussions of blogging in education and in the classroom. When I posted on the question several months ago I received about a couple of dozen emails from teachers in NYC, and a couple from outside of NYC pointing me to websites and other tools they’ve used for teaching. Recently I was invited to take a peek behind an innovative discussion forum where teachers and students discuss classroom topics, school news, and general news. The entire process has been informative. I’ve yet too see to the holy grail of what I think open-source programmers and users imagine a education/blogging platform would look like and act, though there were several great sites for passing on getting information across.
If you have any thoughts on the subject feel free to drop them in this thread or at MYDD, please don’t include links back to classroom sites, you can forward them to me via email at blog@uft.org.
