While blogs are being condemned as a dangerous adolescent pastime, schools are starting to use the popular online journals as a teaching tool. Students in an independent study physical education class ...

There was a time teachers lagged behind their pupils when it came to computers. "We have to show them what to do every time it crashes," eight-year-olds complained loftily to their parents. But ...

If you’re looking to take your students’ work to the next level, creating a class blog is a great way to motivate students to produce their best work — precisely because with a class blog, your ...

Teacher Matthew J. Clausen looked at his Web-design students—their fingers flying over their computer keyboards—and marveled. These 10th, 11th, and 12th graders—even the sullen or quiet ones who never ...

On her blog, Danielle reflected on a Mariners game, the WASL and a trip to Geneva, garnering online comments from Texas and Canada. Her blog was part of a class project started last year by her ...

Do you participate in class? Are you quiet when a teacher asks for opinions? Or do you just need a way to fully express your opinion about an idea? Here's a suggestion: Talk to your teacher about ...

Back when I was a nervous, first-time instructor, my colleagues and I decided to include a multi-class blog in our First Year Comp classrooms. We figured this would be a good way to keep tabs on each ...

Kelly Hanson is a PhD candidate in English at Indiana University, Bloomington who uses class blogs in her writing class on James Bond. You can find her on Twitter at @krh121910 I’ve taught with blogs ...