The first school i found that is incorporating blogging is Joseph H. Kerr School in the Canadian town of Snow Lake, Manitoba. This is a combination of seventh and eighth graders who go onto their blogs and talk about school assignments and their social lives. This has created not only a way of communication between students for school but it gives them a way to communicate socially, which keeps their interest. The teacher who is setting this up is Clarence Fisher, who says "he thinks the online journals will spark students' enthusiasm for computers, writing and opining". He goes on to say that he loves that it gives the students a voice, they are learning that their opinions matter. I think this is great because it prepares them for the real world, where you will meet all kinds of people, some with the same views and some who have different views.
.http://news.cnet.com/Blogging-101--Web-logs-go-to-school/2100-1032_3-5895779.hml
The second wed-site i found was about a teacher named Mrs. Robertson, who is an English teacher in Ontario. Her blog is for her seventh grade class, in which they can discuss novels. Once again it gives students a voice, She really has a great point when saying "“The beauty of it is that my really shy or my weak readers get to respond to the novel discussion with as much power as my mouthy or my ‘great’ readers,”. Her blog consists of questions about novels they are reading in class, not only questions they can answer themselves, but doing things like interviews and having them post their conversations and answers on the blog.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2006/06/using_blogs_as_a_novel_approac.html
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