My ED 505 class was required to follow and read a couple of blogs in addition to five educational blogs that were assigned by the professor. The five the professor assigned were CoolCatTeacher Blog-- http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/ , Will Richardson-- http://willrichardson.com/ ,Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day-- http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ , Free Technology for Teachers-- http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ , and A Media Specialist’s Guide to the Internet http://mediaspecialistsguide.blogspot.com/ . The two that I chose on my own were Ermerging Ed Tech http://www.emergingedtech.com/ and US history teachers’ blog http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/. My favorite blog by far was the US history teachers’ blog. I really enjoyed this blog as did my students. It regularly has videos and lessons that accompany the videos. It has a great deal of material that fits well it my US and World history classes. My favorite post of all was a video and lesson on the song "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel. The song simply list events and people from 1949 to 1989. That is all the lyrics of the song with the exception of the chorus. It is accompanied by a lesson plan that goes with the video and makes a good and interesting change for students. I haven't yet shown this video nor have I done this lesson with my students but I am going to and I look forward to seeing what they think.
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