Theres a list of blogs, a mailing list for support, and more.

You should all join classroom20.com as well, a social network for web 2.0 educators.

Cheers!
Lisa

I reflect on teaching practices and all things ed-techy on my blog :
education.lkrdesign.com/blog

I just assisted our Parent Coordinator in posting the parent newsletter as a blog : brcsbookbag.edublogs.org

Id love to see more of whats already out there too! Edublogs.org doesnt have a great searching tool through their users’ blogs – or am I missing something? Thanks!
Lisa

@Beth: I agree with you about not enough teachers blogging. Most of the teahcers here in South Africa have not yet got into teh blogging thing- but I am working hard on changing that! Please let me know when and where your class blog take off!

@Ariellah: Even though a blog provides feedback facilities, I think a proper forum/network/wiki is a better place for collaborative feedback procecsses. Please see the interesting discussion about commenting on Kobus’s blog (http://www.khanya.co.za/blogs/index.php?entry=entry081002-170137)

@ Nixgrim I have been researching ways teachers are using it with their learners and have been astounded! I suppose like everything else, we only learn the value of a tool once we start using it!

And yes..have not found an example of an actual lesson plan blog. Will change that to lesson plan ideas…have found quite a few examples of that!

@Bryan I use Netvibes and Google reader (Have not made my mind up about which one is better (a girl thing) I think Google reader works better here in SA (badwidth)

Personally, although I’m a total convert to Web 2.0 and LOVE my blogging, I wouldn’t use a blog with my learners. The reason being that most of them don’t have internet access at home, won’t access an educational site on their phones (they’d rather spend the money on Moola for MXit) and won’t stay after school to access one from the school’s IT lab.

I’m amazed that anyone would want to blog lesson plans. In my limited experience, I don’t think the kids are that interested, and teachers who are IT literate tend not to use online lesson plans. Rather, they’re looking for learning objects that they can use for a lesson plan they already have. As one esnsa presenter put it – we’re into remix and rap, not just reusing existing stuff in the same old way. That’s boring. But then, that’s just my humble opinion, and as an ‘ordinary’ teacher, what do I really know about how others are working and doing stuff? Someone like you who has fingers in lots of pies probably has a much better idea of that kind of thing than me, so maybe I’m just completely out of touch.

An addition to the use of blogging:

Forum – to extend communication between teacher- students, students to other students local or overseas, Students- virtual teacher (opportunity for communication with experties in a certain field)

I currently maintain a “professional” blog in which I discuss current issues in education and reflect on my career. I am in the early stages of setting up a “class” blog in which I will post all kinds of things related to my students.