Interesting article on how a teacher's role changed through the use of blogging with his 14 year old students: Progressive Discourse Revisited

2 Cents Worth: Why Kids Blog

Great article...short, sweet, and 2 the point...his 2 cents

Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: The Word that Will Get Your Blog Censored by Texas Schools Districts: "April 18, 2006"

Mr. Light’s blog starts with very clear guidelines for what is expected of blogging students and their commenting. He then asks his students what they think of blogging and we can read their evaluative and overwhelmingly postive views on the medium

Odeo: Record and Share Audio

Odeo is a creative way to record and share audio—and it’s free. You can record audio and then share it with your Odeo contacts, by email, or by placing it in a Channel for all the world to hear. Audio from Odeo can be downloaded to desktops, iPods, and mp3 players.

A List Apart: Articles: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web

Great article with tips on writing for Web 2.0.

Educational Freeware

PSA: MySpace and Internet Safety: "I really don't remember ever doing a public service announcement, so here's a first. If you're a parent worried about what your child is doing on MySpace, go read the Wired 'MySpace Cheet Sheet for Parents' which is based primarily on an interview with Danah Boyd, whose worked I linked here earlier.

from Will Richardson on On My Mind

Getting Heard

Excellent high school blog - English class. Presently they are reading and discussing To Be A Slave by Julius Lester

Grade 4 Homework Board - Mr. Redknap's Grade 4 Class Blog, Oshawa
From our neighbors in Canada comes, comes Mr. Redknap´s 4 Grade Class blog. This is a new blog for this school year. Check it out!

The Edublog Awards ? The Edublog Awards 2005 Winners

Take a look through some of these award-winning eucational blogs.

Ideas to Help You Blog

Performancing.com has a wonderful extension for Firefox 1.5 and up that will help you publish to your blog from within the browser. They have also published a good article on Launching a New Blog the Easy Way that you might want to read.