Using blogs to extend teaching, learning, and research in social studies education

A hands-on session at the

Examples

High School Classroom Blogs

Andy Hostetler – Government Classes

Graduate Course Blogs

Issues and Trends in Social Studies Education (Fall 2008) *I’ll need to give you a username and password when we are together.

Sites/Tools to start your own blogs or for your own students to start their own blogs

WordPress

http://wordpress.com/ (to have it hosted free by WordPress)

http://wordpress.org/ (to use the WordPress software on your own webhost/server)

Blogger

edublogs

Live Journal