The most obvious use of a blog for the Teacher Librarian would be to do book previews and book reviews. Student aides could be enlisted to read and then blog about their favorites and/or their assigned Dewey/Fiction sections. Posting a webliography of useful research sites for students could also work well in a blog format since it is difficult to upload through a school webmaster and would make it easier to do quick changes for teachers and students (or alternatively a link to Delicious and/or Favthumbs).
A classroom teacher could use a reading/research assignment, for example, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and have each student blog their daily findings. This particular assignment from one teacher, requires the students to research the various professions represented in The Canterbury Tales. The students spend time researching the backgrounds of their respective characters, had they actually lived and performed those jobs. The blogging for this class would help students to share their findings of their daily research with their teacher, and help the teacher to see which students need extra attention when they visit the library. The teacher could also give blog feedback along the way to the students making good progress independently.
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Here is the link to Ms Kennedy's blog. Ms. Kennedy did try blogging with her students as they worked in the library on their Canterbury Tales project. It was her first time using it. Not only did she keep up with her students research progress, but she had a lot of fun reading their posts, too!
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