classblogmeister

About Class Blogmeister

Perhaps one of the most fascinating tools that has emerged from the Internet cloud in recent years is the Blog. A shortening of the term Web log, the Blog is an online publishing tool that enables people to easily publish their loves, passions, dislikes, peeves, discoveries, and insights.

Thousands of teachers have discovered the value of classroom blogging, both as an avenue for their communications, but also as a tool for giving voice to what their students are learning and how they are learning.

Class Blogmeister is one of several blogging engines that have been developed specifically for classroom use. You are welcome to explore the writings of teachers and students alike

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History of Class BlogMeister

The creator David Warlick is a 35 year educator -- a classroom teacher, district administrator, and staff consultant with the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. Since 1995, he has been the owner and principal consultant of The Landmark Project, a professional development and innovations firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. During this time David has spoken at  numerous conferences and delivered workshops for educators throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and South America. His attribution are:  Citation Machine, serves nearly a million page views a day and classroom blogging tool, Class BlogMeister, has served more than a quarter of a million teachers and students.

Comments by the creator, David Warlick; “The Web has changed dramatically since Landmarks for Schools was launched in 1995. At that time, virtually all of its content was published by organizations. Today, an increasing portion of the Web-based information that people are using is published by individuals. We are not only consuming information, but also sharing knowledge and ideas that we care about. Below, I have installed a number of widgets that serve to mine this new social web and provide glimpses at the global conversation -- as of this minute”.

Class BlogMeister is an online classroom blogging tool which is providedfree of subscription or purchase from The Landmark Project. These and all of
David Warlick’s other web tools for teachers are free.

 Instructional Uses

  

Using BlogMeister with Students

The principal purpose of BlogMeister is to enable teachers to provide authentic publishing 
opportunities for their students. One of the barriers for using most general blogging tools is to 
assure the quality and appropriateness of student publications. Students can work on their 
writings over a period of time, understanding their writing are not public until the teachers

have reviewed and approved the article. In addition to the articles, all comments posted are 
filtered through the teachers before they are made available to students.

Some examples of teacher use:

• to present a lesson where students learn how to read and write
• to present a lesson on selecting books - reading

Some examples of student use:

• to  demonstrate different book and career interests 
• to present a story - The Fairy Tale 
• to reading outloud - recording 

Classblogmeister is specifically made for teachers and students. It is one of the many ways to provide a vast teaching-learning environment. We could also define classblogmeister as an extension of school. In here, teachers and students are able to still teach and learn.