After a little searching and exploring, I found two very interesting international schools that are using blogs to help enhance their student’s educations. Mr. Coyle’s eight-grade humanities class from the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India was the first one I explored. Mr. Gary Coyle, an eighteen year veteran of teaching humanities studies, is using his blog to not only help keep his students and parents informed on what is going on in their classroom but also by integrating their class work into the blog. The students are responsible for varies blog assignments and the guidelines for what the students need to post are clearly listed on the blog. By having the students post blogs, it allows the students to explain and discuss how they feel about a certain subject they are studying and share it not only with the students in their class but the students in Mr. Coyle’s other classes. By having all the guidelines listed on the blog, his students can be positive that they are doing any particular assignment correctly. He also has provided a breakdown of what the students can expect for each quarter in his class. I was really impressed by this blog. The resources that Mr. Coyle has provided for his students are extensive. I could probably write a paper about all the information he has provided for his students. I advise everyone to take a look at this site. This is an excellent example of how we could include blogs into our classroom and how to make them effective. You can find Mr. Coyle's blog here!
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