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http://borderland.northernattitude.org/

On this site the instructor talks about a number of topics, but the majority of how these events tie in to his teaching and living experience in Alaska. The teacher talks about how he has found out how much more his students need to learn about giving presentations and speaking before other students. He also mentioned how a simple exercise that his daughter remembered from the sixth grade helped him to reach his students and get them to perform on another level. The instructor uses the blog to document the effectiveness or use of the lessons his class has participated in.


http://samccoy-n2teaching.blogspot.com/


Ms. Coy has been using her blog to share information and lessons of interaction that other teachers have used to involve students and get feedback from those students. One of the areas in her blog dealt with student’s blogging their ideas of safety and the instructor provided them feedback as to what they needed to consider. She stated that a few members of the community asked to deactivate the project because they did not think that it was productive for the students, when in fact it had been very effective and the students did use the suggestions.


Many teachers and professors have begun to use blogging to provide greater proficiency for teacher development by presenting the information in the blogs to be read or resourced. With this type of information many teachers who may have not thought of or had some of this information are able to bring on board what is taking place in other schools. This therefore enables them to continue the balance of knowledge for themselves as well as broaden the perspective of the students that they are teaching.

In addition to the information shared helping the teachers students directly, they are also able to share this information with their other co-professionals to bring them up to par if they in fact do not have the information. Some teachers using their classrooms as live sessions using this technology and this allows the viewer to see exactly what the teacher is doing concerning the teaching of their curriculum. This live feed also allows for a greater learning experience through live conversation.