Blogs and blogging for teachers by teachers
Do a google search for "blogging and teaching" or [subject] +blog

Blogs can have a special place in the hearts of teachers. They allow teachers to set up communities for professional discussion, trade ideas and stories, and solve problems.

Blogs are used by teachers for posting observations, commentary, personal news, musings, mediations, rants, notes . . . writing that accumulates over time. Teachers post frequently and informally, and can build a community of readers and contributors quickly. Over time, the teacher's blog becomes a storehouse, a history, an autobiography, the trace of a writerly presence.

More and more, blogs are being seen as a legitimate vehicle for of professional development. [http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2004/01/academic_credit.html Academic credit for blogging] discusses "the role blogging can play in the development of both an individual's academic career and an academic institution."

Some examples of PedaBlogs

• Blogging Pedagogy
• Weblogg-ed, Will Richardson
• PEDABLOGUE A personal inquiry into the scholarship of teaching by Michael Arnzen.
• pedabloggy by a teacher of programmed and networked media in the School of Applied Communication, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. The blog is aimed mainly at students, but it's also Interesting for its hybridization.
• the comp blog, "a team blog about teaching, blogging, and teaching about blogging.. with blogging..." Three from NDSU: Kevin, Sybil, and Cindy. The collective blog links to their individual blogs.
• Planning, Acting, Reflecting, Stacy's College Writing II journal. Now static.
• The invisible adjunct. "Occasional thoughts on higher education, campus politics, the use and abuse of adjunct faculty, the academic "job market," and various other absurdities." Set up to encourage participants to post comments.
• Dr. B's Blog, "A blog of classroom activities and discussions. A place where rhetoric rocks!!" Also keeps a Writing Blog for her dissertation.

blogging and teaching writing

We keep a more detailed bib on the [http://biro.bemidjistate.edu/cgi/twwtwiki.pl?CourseReadings Teaching Writing with Technology wiki].