Published: December 14, 2005

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A sampling of teacher and instructional-technology Web logs for becoming familiarized with K-12 blogging:

• Weblogg-ed by Will Richardson, Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Flemington, N.J.

• Edublog Insights by Anne P. Davis, in the information-technology division at Georgia State University’s college of education, in Atlanta.

• Educational Weblogs by Albert Delgado, a teacher at Chicago’s Whittier Elementary School.

• Blog of Proximal Development by Konrad Glogowski, Fern Hill School, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

Selected classroom blogs:

• BlogWrite by students at J.H. House Elementary School in Conyers, Ga.

• Excellence and Imagination by students of Clarence Fisher, the Joseph H. Kerr School, Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada.

• This Digital Life written by Web-design students of Matthew J. Clausen at Willard Alternative High School, Missoula, Mont.

• AP Calculus AB by students of Darren Kuropatwa, Daniel McIntyre Collegiate School, Manitoba, Canada.

• English Literature 12 by James M. Nelson, Duncan Christian School in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Web sites geared toward classroom blogging:

• Weblogger.com, a popular K-12 blog-hosting service using Manila content-management software.

• Learnerblogs.org by James Farmer, a college lecturer and online education consultant in Melbourne, Australia.

• Classblogmeister.com, by David Warlick, the Landmark Project, a Web development/consulting firm in Raleigh, N.C.

• SchoolBlog by ePALS Classroom Exchange Inc. in Easton, Conn.

• Movable Type by Six Apart Ltd., in San Francisco, Calif.

Sites that provide blogging tools:

• To add photos: www. flickr.com

• To add bookmarks: http://del.icio.us

• To combine all Web content on one page: www.SuprGlu.com

• To subscribe, via Really Simple Syndication, to other blogs: www.bloglines.com

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