First of all I really must state that this is not a top ten list of blogs, although all the people mentioned are fantastic and do write great blogs, I know there are many others who do and who I regularly read myself and comment on, but this list was put together for teachers who don’t know where to start, I wanted to give them a mix of international, primary, secondary and higher education so here they all are. I have been asked recently by lots of teachers to put out a list like this.
Teachers are always looking out for new ideas to try in the classroom, but where do you get yours from? If you read many of the blogs that are written by teachers out there on the internet then you probably get lots of ideas from them, if you don’t then you are missing a trick. You can subscribe to these blogs and when a new post is written you will then be automatically notified, if you pick blogs where teachers have similar interests or teach your subject that often helps although you can get lots of good ideas from international teachers and also from primary teachers. To help you get started I have picked the following blogs for you to have a look at:
Teachers Blog – Ideas for resources for teaching & learning from Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/teachers Stuart Ball and others produce this regular blog post with sharing lots of resources for you to use in the classroom.
Teacher Reboot Camp – Challenging ourselves to engage our students:
http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/ Shelley Terrell has a fantastic blog, she is an American teacher working in Germany and regularly shares some fantastic ideas.
Learning with ‘E’s – Steve Wheeler’s (Associate professor at University of Plymouth) thoughts about learning technology and all things digital.
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/
Creativity and Innovation in Education – Ollie Bray is a National Adviser for Emerging Technologies in Learning and Teaching Scotland: http://olliebray.typepad.com/
Mr. Mitchell’s Blog – Ask Sir – A primary Deputy Headteachers blog. David Mitchell does some fantastic work including blogging in schools:
http://mrmitchell.heathfieldcps.net/
The Edubaker – Chris Baker from John Cabot has some fantastic ideas and links to resources on his blog:
Mr Robbo The PE Geek – I have been reading Jarrod’s blog for years it is fantastic, although he is a PE teacher I have used so many of his things in my lessons, if you are a PE teacher then even better, he is based in Australia:
Webb’s Wide World – This is the award winning primary teacher Jan Webb’s blog which is full of really good examples of using technology in innovative ways. She has some great ideas that you can take and use in your own classroom: http://janwebb21.com/
Alessio’s Blog – Ideas for learning and teaching, here you can see many examples of weird, strange, wonderful and slightly welsh ideas to use in the classroom and oh yes a bit of Physics although most of the stuff can be used in most subjects: http://alessiobernardelli.wordpress.com/
The Whiteboard Blog – Supporting technology in the classroom – Danny always has some great ideas, that I often stop to have a look at on a whole range of things. Definately worth a look: http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk