Blog #13

Find 5 websites that teachers can use to create blogs in the classroom. Give a brief description on other ways it will be useful in the classroom.

1.School Rack

On School Rack teachers can :
*Share information, documents, and files
*Hold discussions online, outside of class
*Report grades online to students or their parents
*Keep in touch with private messaging
*Create a free classroom website
or educational blog

2.KidBlog

Kidblog provides teachers with the tools to help students publish writing safely online. Students exercise digital citizenship within a secure classroom blogging space. Teachers moderate all content, so nothing goes live until you say so.

3.Weebly

*Easily create a classroom website & blog
*Manage your students' accounts
*Accept homework assignments online
*Keep your parents up to date

4.21 Classes

Teachers can run their personal blog and post stories and review comments. Using the classroom functionality, teachers can create accounts for their students to read and/or comment on those stories. With their comprehensive access control functionality, access to such an account can be completely restricted, so that only logged-in students can view the content. Also, students can be divided into multiple groups, where the teacher can allow specific groups to have read access to a particular story. Finally, any comments made by students can be moderated.

5.Classchatter

Classchatter.com permits a free blog to the teachers and the students with some useful features. It provide teachers with the tools that support online blended learning classroom management. Teachers can create journals, conduct discussions, assign assignments and even grade the assignments. The blog environment is secure and the teachers get good options to choose the tools that suit their requirements. However, the free version of classchatter does not support upload of audio or video files.