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After reviewing Wilber's readings, I stumbled upon Gary Coyle's grade 8 Humanities blog which really stuck out to me. He used the blog as both a place to write information to the class about what was due and projects that he assigned and also as a blogging site. It was pretty cool to see how everything was organized and it really gave me the encouagement to include a blog like this into my classroom. All of his students were listed on a seperate tab, separated by class and you could click on any of their links. In addition, it was pretty cool to see that he used this in his 8th grade classroom in Americas Embassy School in New Delhi, India. As a class, we always discuss high school ELA because that it where "most" of us will be teaching; however, it is possible that are certification could lead us to a seventh or eighth grade classroom. The ability for us as teachers to incorporate a blog into a class is really awesome and it is interesting to see how much blogs have taken off in the last ten years. I looked at Rebecca Blood which was a blog from when blogs first came about and it was interesting to see how different they are now. There wasn't as much discussing; it really centered around posting links and sending viewers to other places on the internet which I found pretty ironic. In today's blogs, we see a lot more discussion. Discussion, in my opinion, is the main point for using blogs because they get everybody talking about a common topic. Using hyperlinks is only something that will make your writing better and allow students to make connections between lots of different information on the internet.

Eighth Grade Blog