Monday, October 17, 2016

A Blog about Blogs

This week, we looked at some of the best education blogs.  One of the blogs I looked at was “Busy Teacher” by Andrei Zakhareuski.  Andrei founded and runs the Busy Teacher blog, which is a blog for free resources and lesson plans.  His blog not only has worksheets, posters, and practice pages but articles and book recommendations related to educational topics.  This blog was a great place for easy to find resources.  It has over 16,880 worksheets and lesson plans for free with no registration required.  The thing I was most excited to see was Halloween curriculum connections.  These worksheets were fun, interactive, and festive.  One question to consider when looking at this blog is how can you use these materials in your own classroom and setting.
The other blog that I looked at was the “Hack Learning Blog” created by Mark Barnes.  This blog contained posts about increasing student engagement, rethinking assessments, and improving school leadership.  This website had a lot of great articles on a variety of topics, including How to Discuss Politics and Other Sensitive Issues in School, Reimaging Traditional Homework, and 3 Ways to Turn Failure into Success.  This website would be very helpful in finding applicable articles to my Master’s classes.  After looking at this blog, I wondered how often these articles are updated and how many people are contributing to this site?
References:
Barnes, M.  (2016).  Hack Learning Blog.  Retrieved from http://hacklearning.org
Zakhareuski, A.  (2016).  Busy Teacher Blog.  Retrieved from http://busyteacher.org/



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