International Blogs

The first international blog I found was Mr. Bensons Room 12 blog. This blog was for his 8-9 year olds that attended Mellons Bay School in Auckland, New Zealand. This site included podcasts that were so interesting because the students sounded so much different than students from the United States. The blog also included homework, presentations, photos, school tube and much more. It was a good site for children 8-9 because it was not intimidating and very kid friendly.

http://mellonsbay.blogspot.com/search/label/mindmap


The second international blog I found was Mrs. C's grade 5 and 6 class from Victoria, Australia. Their blog was titled Our Blog 2009. This blog was more of a fun blog for their students to visit. It had a lot of interactive learning sites students were asked to visit and it also had a lot of interesting facts on the blog. Not only was this one blog but it also offered many other blogs that you could visit. Students could play tutpup, launchball, snowflakes and smilebox. All of these links were educational and also fun for the students. This blog is a great site for students to learn and have fun.

http://ourblog.globalstudent.org.au/

Blogs in the United States

The first blog I found was Miller's English 10 Blog which is a blog 10th grade students use to post and submit what ever they are reading or learning about in class at that time.Branford High School is located in Branford, CT. This site must be very useful to these students because they are able to communicate with their teacher and fellow students. The teacher posts many questions that the students must respond to. It seems that this blog is a big part of their grade in this classroom. Not only are they adding posts but they must also create posts in Google Docs. These students blog about poems and books. I am sure my English class might have been more interesting in High School if we had a blog.

http://millersenglish10.blogspot.com/

The second blog I found was Extreme Biology. This blog was created by Stacy Baker who teaches 9th grade biology at Calverton High School in Huntingtown, Maryland. This blog actually won an Edublog award for best class blog. This blog had so many interesting photographs and sites you could visit. You could really tell that Stacy Baker enjoyed teaching biology and her students loved to learn about biology. Students are able to create posts about previous labs they did in class or even something they had done outside of class. Great blog even for someone who is not in the 9th grade.

http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/