Using Blogs in the classroom

I hope you will see the possibilities this medium offers for instruction. I've found a couple of websites to help you in the process. Blogging in the classroom http://mywebspace.quinnipiac.edu/PHastings/tools.html# has some great tips and instructions for using blogs and describing how develop them to help students interact with the curriculum materials. A list of the top 100 blogs for education can be found here http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs
Leave me a comment about any ideas you though interesting at these sites.

Intel's Thinking with Technology

I found a site yesterday that offers three interesting tools to help students develop thinking and reasoning skills. It's found at http://www.intel.com/education/tools/index.htm?iid=ed_nav+k12tools
The three tools are called Visual Ranking, Seeing Reason, and Showing Evidence. Look and some of the example projects and I think it will give you a good idea as to how these tools are being used by teachers. Projects using these tools could be used for any area of the curriculum.