Classroom Blog

Classroom Blog

I applaud all of you who have built and maintained functional classroom websites. In my first years of teaching, it was simply too much to keep up with. Lately I’ve seen a few teachers keeping a classroom blog. I think this is brilliant as it:

is much easier to set up and maintain than typical classroom website
gives you a real voice to write to your students
students don’t really have to navigate much to see the current content

If you’ve never set up a blog, it’s very quick and easy. There are a number of host sites such as blogger.com and tumblr.com. If you do have plans of launching a class website at some point, I’d recommend starting your blog in wordpress.com as it offers the option to easily transfer everything to your website when you are ready.

Here’s my favorite example of a simple, effective classroom blog—Mrs. Plas’ Virtual Classroom.

Professional Development Tip for August 14, 2008