Google Earth Tour

How to create a Google Earth Tour

Embedding a Google Earth tour from Google Sites into a blog or wiki

Student and Teacher Blogs

Benefits of blogging in education

Here are some of the main reasons why teachers should consider blogging as an educational medium :

• Students enjoy blogging
• Blogging enhances literacy skills
• It gets students engaged and boost their motivation
• It promotes their communication skills
• Just like other asynchronous media, blogs give time to students to reflect
• It gives a chance to shy students to participate with their peers and get their voice heard
• It keeps parents updated about their kids progress
• It enhances home-school links
• It gives students a genuine and potentially worldwide audience for their work.
• Blogging gives students ownership over their own learning and an authentic voice allowing them to articulate their needs and inform their learning.
• It contributes to identity-formation in students
• Blogging  helps teachers develop professionally
• It fosters the development of writing and research skills as well as digital skills.

Ways to use blogs in your classroom

 

64 interesting ideas_for_class_blog_posts from GrahamAttwell