Julie Lindsay is a teacher in Doha Qatar. She is head of information technology at Qatar Academy. This is a teacher who uses blogs as a means of communication around the world. She explains how you can use them to participate in things going on when you cant physically be there. For instance they were having a educational conference in Philadelphia and she couldn't attend so she used her blog site to watch what was going on and to share some of her ideas too. I think that this is really neat that she could be at a conference around the world but still be in her classroom or home while doing so. With this I think that it could help out students a lot to learn and get to experience new things.
Jo Mcleay is a teacher in Melbourne, Australia and she teaches English at a secondary school and she is completing her masters of education degree. She uses blogs in the classroom to have the students post drafts that she has had the write. She explains in her blog how to use a blog and things of this sort. She also has the kids to watch different podcast and write what they think about them. She has them to discuss stories that they have read and to post their discussions. She had them to do a discussion on hurricane Katrina. I like all these ideas of using blogs in the classroom because, you don't have to worry about all those papers to bring home with you.
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