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It's incredible how the blogging community has grown. I'm really enjoying watching the teaching community embrace technology like blogging and live virtual classrooms like WizIQ. Very cool stuff.

The premise of the post is interesting. I think everyone is a teacher. Many of the same methods teachers use are also used by bloggers, simply because they are effective ways to communicate ideas.

I agree with you that Blogs can be great teaching tools. As a former Special Ed teacher, I think it's fascinating that you've found they're being most creatively used at the K-12 level.

It is certain that the lines of communication would be more open if a teacher had a blog. plus the ability to post relevant material to a students needs would be most helpful.

I belive that Blogging for teachers is an excellent resource for their students

its good for both teachers and students to have an updated blog. I am a student and I BLOG :)

Sir, can you write more notes about edublogs for teachers?

Gathering ideas and input from the online community is essential to understanding what is driving the thoughts and minds of contemporary and active thinkers, and as such should be essential to teaching many topics.

very interesting .. at this point IMHO it's teachers who blog .. when the Internet takes over and none of us leave home for school then it will be bloggers who teach .. ;)

Teachers should have blogs to interact with students and the community.

I think that it is important for teachers to have blogs. they can use them to teach as well as supply information about class projects. the mind is important real estate and should be improved upon!

Blogging is the way of the future. The way i see it is that static sites will soon be obsolete. Those with static sites will have to evolve or die.

Blogs provide an accessible way for individuals to share their expertise (or even just knowledge) with others, and it is this trait that makes blogs a valuable educational resource.

My access to knowledge is no longer limited by where I study, or what books I can get ahold of, or who I can communicate with. I can take in a sea of information from hundreds of authors (all a few keystrokes away), and make their knowledge mine.

Blogs provide an accessible way for individuals to share their expertise (or even just knowledge) with others, and it is this trait that makes blogs a valuable educational resource.

My access to knowledge is no longer limited by where I study, or what books I can get ahold of, or who I can communicate with. I can take in a sea of information from hundreds of authors (all a few keystrokes away), and make their knowledge mine.

RSS feeds are especially valuable for this.

The needs for blogging is becoming a necessity to a lot of folks. I knew teachers who blog, but never seen them using blog to teach.

Unfortunately, that link seems to work no longer.

Thank you for this great site. Your "link Teachers Who Write PDF)" somehow is not working. Coul dyou check about it?

Ke Xu

I am a teacher and I blog, but on subjects I am passionate about, not necessarily the curriculum I teach.

depends on people intention to build their blog, he can act as teacher to their readers or just be bloggers that teach the others.

Blogging for teachers is an excellent resource for their students, as the teacher/prof can keep course-material updated and current, easily.

Also, a real-life application of the what they're teaching certainly doesn't hurt.

bloggers definitely teach!!

I'm a teacher, i blog :)))))

Excellent blog!!!

Hi Martin:

You demonstrated your expertise on blogging very well. So I thought you might be able to help me out with my blog question. We put together a site dedicated to free training software and material focused on the niche, industrial sector. My main question is where (or what) should I look for in a blog to reach industrial educators, so they can benefit from the many resources?
http://www.industrial-ebooks.com

A second question, derived from reading your blog and the fact that K-12 is really involved in utilizing blogs... Is there a specific blog or way to find blogs for K-12 teachers?

There is a specific electrical troubleshooting program (http://www.industrial-ebooks.com/CBT_software/TCC_30.exe), that I would like high school teachers to consider letting their students use. Or at least let their students know about.

We really need to get the emphasis back on vocational skills in our high schools or the baby boomers retiring is really going to hurt our economy.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Teachers dont blog... or do they?

The popularity of blog is somewhat amazing and a phenomonem of our times.
Although there are blogs on every topic the highest percentage seem to be on human interest - sort of like a modern "Coronation Street"
Why the popularity ? In the case of public interest blogs - a high percentage of the readers are women. An observation is that men read technical books , women in many cases like to read novels which often have the characters work through life's issues and questions through the relationships in their lives. So is the modern female smut blog.
Blogs are rather amazing in that it gives the person an easy to use webpage with relatively sophisticated yet intuitive or at least similar to the word processors people use either with microsoft word or open office or writing emails.
In essence blogs have given the ordinary person easy access to a webpage of their own - no hosting arrangment or ftps setup needed if it is a free wordpress or blooger google blog.
In essence the hosting of web pages has been democraticized and made easy.
Most websites , if you think of it , do not change much whereas that is the whole point of a blog or weblog. Yet the blog can be searched for information.

Very interesting blog.

I was browsing the web for something like this and found it here on pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu. Nice original thought.

Thanks for this great post.

Thats a very good post. I want to add some to this post. List of Free Blog Directories, where u can submit your blogs free, to promote. URL: http://www.dassnagar.com/blog/2006/09/full-list-of-free-blog-directories.html

Thanks.