International teachers use blogs in classrooms

http://e3eclat.blogspot.com/
Mr. Lietze teaches a group of students (E3) who are in Year 6 (fifth grade) at Bethlehem College Primary in Tauranga, New Zealand. Mr. Lietze’s classroom blog is one of the best blogs I’ve seen yet! It is loaded with interesting links; there are even links to click on Christian music videos. He has a daily Bible verse and daily word definition in addition to unique blog posts. Some posts were like the U.S. teachers’ posts: entertaining slideshows of activities. He also has videos that supplement his curriculum. He posts graphics to help explain homework assignments, and each student has a link on the blog to their blog. It seems as though Mr. Lietze assigns the children each a responsibility for their blogs. There were different individual projects, but their were also slideshows of classroom activities that included all the children. Each student blog was different from the other. The children also used their blog to help raise money for their classroom pet, Bluey, a blue tongued lizard. Mr. Lietze inspires his children to creatively use blogs and has shown a blog’s educational potential.

http://ourblog.globalstudent.org.au/
Ms. C and Ms. R upload posts to their blog entitled the Learning Studio for Grades 5 and 6 in country Victoria, Australia. This blog seemed to be the least incorporated into learning plans. The blog appeared to exist as merely something students could go to for extra resources. Some posts included “amazing skill” which taught the children about the pavement art drawn by Julian Beever. Other posts were to encourage students to play educational games (links were available) and to use “endangered” words in daily conversation.