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 * Submit your examples of EDUCATIONAL blogs (not random blogs) here. Check page 216 in your text if you have questions related to educational blogs. Please be sure that your submission contains your name, website title and address (hyperlinked), and at least a 100 word review of EDUCATIONAL blogs (see** **submission example** **with questions).**

· Jake Beeney- Educational Blog · [] · This website gives some insightful over no child left behind act and how it has affected lower level education and more specifically social studies. This article goes on to tell the reader how social studies has been affected more adversely by recent cuts made to education. However, this blog explains how some teachers are making added efforts to creatively teach the proper history lessons even with the diminished funding being funneled into social studies. Towards the end of this blog it states that the National Council for History Education is considering reviewing social studies as a “high profile” subject and remove it from the “D-list” among subjects taught in school.
 * Casie Golliday – “Science Fix.com”
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 * This website is by a middle school science teacher names Darren Fix. In his blog there are science lessons and experiments. He ahs uploaded helpful videos that go along with his lesson plans and writes out steps for experiments. The videos on the site are helpful because they show the experiments being done, so that a teacher using the site could know if they are doing it completely right. After showing how to do the experiment and writing steps, he then explains about what happen in the experiment and what it all means. He also sometimes adds “teaching tips” at the end of a lesson.


 * Trevor Mitchell- International Baccalaureate High School History Blog
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 * IB History topics is a blog for high school students. The students are most recently posting articles on communism. Some posts are as simple as a political cartoon and a few questions and comments attached. Other posts, however, are more in depth giving detailed history and advanced questions like “The Lives of Others”. All of the posts have questions to be answered generating good topic discussion, relation, and debate. In addition to the students making posts, to help facilitate topic comprehension, the teacher is able to post class information like reviews and assignments. By posting all of this information the student has a one stop shop for homework and studying.

Elise Davidshofer—Webmaths __[]__ Webmaths is a blog that is written by Jeff Trevaskis. Jeff was an educator in math for thirty years so he definitely has the experience in the classroom. His blog contains some information just about him and his events in his life. However, the majority of his blog posts pertain to teaching mathematics. He offers advice for new teachers in one post. In some other posts, he shared examples of good lessons he has planned that the students enjoyed and that allowed the students to really show that they grasped the concept he was teaching. Overall, Webmath is a blog that provides some good ideas and advice for teachers in mathematics.


 * Kelli Hogan-TeachersCount
 * []-- Scroll down the page until you see "Inside TeachersCount" in bold letters. Click on the first bullet point called "TeachersCount Bloggers."
 * TeachersCount Bloggers is a blog where teachers from across the country share their thoughts about education and the teaching life. Teachers explain some common problems that exist in schools today. These include disrespect, grades and the downside of external validation, the concept of learning via movie or writing, and etc. Teachers on this blog feel that students show much disrespect in the classroom setting by "answering back." Teachers may ask the students to have a seat at the start of class and the student might answer, "But I was just stretching my legs." Teachers also explain on the blog that students learn better by watching movies rather than reading. The students can remember all sorts of details in the movies such as characters, setting, and cinematography. TeachersCount is a neat blog because it shares personal stories between teachers and their students, and it also gives advice on how to fix the problems that occur in the classroom setting.

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 * Benjamin Culik - Guys Read Book Club Blog
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 * Guysread is a blog by the Salem Middle School Guys Read Club, written by teacher, Mike Hutchinson. This blog focuses on the goings on of the Salem Middle School Guys Read club, and the books they are reading. Currently, because of the recent NCAA Basketball tournament, they have created a book bracket. Realizing that following brackets would be a lot more fun if books were competing against each other, Mike Hutchinson and his Guys Read club of middle schoolers paired each team in this year’s tournament with a book they believed deserved an equally high ranking. For example, for Washington vs. Marquette, they have Hatchet vs. No More Dead Dogs. This is a creative way to makes the NCAA brackets interesting for students that love to read, and also makes books more interesting for those that love March Madness.

· Amanda Hannan –Beths Elementary Education Blog · [] · This blog I found to be interesting because Beth not only discusses possible planning ideas for elementary teachers, but also bigger problems that any other teacher may come across. For instance, working with a difficult principle or job sharing. She gives advice to elementary teachers in particular who might be going through similar problems and possible solutions. Beth also gives good arguments as to why she believes one way toward a particular subject and considers the opposing sides. The feedback Beth gets and comments that other readers leave are also very helpful, expanding on her ideas and offering new ones.

· Alanna Blackburn – ElEdBlog · [] · ElEdBlog is a blogging website that many teachers participate with in order to communicate goals and compare ideas with teachers from other communities. The website can be broken into groups so that the librarians can have their own blog, PE teachers another, English teachers another blog, and so on. Teachers can come to this website and post their ideas which other teachers can then use. Teachers also talk about situations with the students, some ideas that work in the school setting as well as some that do not. This blog site is also used by groups within school buildings. It does not have to be a group of people from different communities participating in the blogs; it can be a group of teachers from one single school. This helps teachers bounce ideas off one another and also state some good and bad ideas of activities to do with the students.


 * Cara Philpott-Chronicals of a Veteren Kindergarten Teacher
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 * This website blog is written by a kindergarten teacher. It provides information that pertains mainly to teaching kindergarten but many of the posts apply to all teachers. Topics include organizational tips, teacher morale, ethical conduct, discipline in the classroom, how to be a good teacher, and a wide variety of other topics. The blog entries are open for discussion as teachers from all areas comment on the blog entries. This provides a way for teachers to discuss common topics and to network with a wide variety of teachers from around the world. The Veteran Kindergarten Teacher blogger also interjects her blogs with humor that makes the reader smile and laugh out loud.

Zach Wolf - ElEdBlog [|http://www.eledblog.com] Eledblog.com offers teachers a place to receive comments and suggestions on teaching styles and lesson plans for elementary level teaching. Here teachers can post questions as well as give feedback on other teachers to see what new ways of keeping the classroom interesting are being utilized across the country. It involves creating a log-in and password so that the comments and responses come from people who actually want to take the time to get involved. Some of the topics include discussing new technology in the classroom, or posting what a teacher’s “Game Plan” for that week is, and how they plan to go about accomplishing it. Great site for bouncing ideas off of other’s minds.


 * Sarah Sedivy - Young Children Need to Move
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 * When you get to the website its the very first blog by Julie. This website is talking about how kids need to stand up when asked a question instead of sitting down answering it. They also say that kids should be up moving around more then sitting down. They also explain the movements of animals.


 * Ashley Brinkman-100 Best Blogs for Teachers of the Future
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 * This blog is a large list of other blogs that teachers have found useful. The list is broken down into different sections and or categories so that teachers can find what they're looking for faster. Each blog that is listed gives a short description of what you will find in the blog. This helps in making sure you find what you need. This seems like a great resource for teachers, given that it has lots of information on different topics related to the world of education all in one place. The blogs are written by teachers in an effort to reach out and help other teachers and offer support to one another.