Week 5

Angela DiIenno a fourth grade teacher at Providence Creek Academy in Clayton,Delaware uses blogs in her classroom. Mrs. DiIenno makes a new blog each week, which includes announcements and reminders for the parents, along with the homework, and test the students will have in each subject for that week. For example, for the week of September 15th-19th she posted what the students spelling words were, and what day the test would be on, also what they would be working on in the other subject areas for that week. I thinks this is a great way to keep the parents involved with what is going on at their children's school and it also lets the parents know what they need to be working on with their child for the week.
http://www.providencecreekacademy.org/
http://angeladiienno.blogspot.com





Mr. Langhorst, an 8th grade Ameican History teacher at South Valley Junior High School in Liberty, Missouri also uses blogs in his classroom. Mr. Langhorst does his blogs different from Mrs. DiIenno but it is also a very effective way. Mr. Langhorst's blogs contain ideas, pictures, new items, and thoughts about using technology in the junior high school classroom. He has a website that contains a parent resource page, student resource page, this week in class, weekly parent newsletter, and a Mr. L's podcast/blog page, just to name a few. Mr. Langhorst uses his blog page to post information on the history subjects they are covering in class for various weeks. He post study guides, and also uses podcast in which they can listen to him as he reviews them for the test.
http://www.liberty.k12.mo.us/%7Eelanghorst/blog