The Amazingly Useful Teacher Blogs

While I was searching for helpful teacher blogs for resources I happened to come across http://www.sciencefix.com/.  I really enjoyed how this teachers blog addresses not only the use of technology in the classroom but the fact of misconceptions in science.  One of the videos provided shows a science teacher interviewing a few non-science teacher volunteers on the subject of "what is mass".  I think this truly allows students to see that it is not only students that may have trouble learning about a certain item such as mass.  In my opinion students will be less afraid to ask for help or clarity on subject matter if they can see that others can have similar issues with retaining or understanding information.  Another great idea this teachers blog has pointed out for me is how they used google my maps to demonstrate the distance between all of the planets.  It is true that students may have a hard time understanding the vast distance without having something familiar for comparison.  Another individual posted a comment on this blog for another resource that I may have never came across if not for this blog.  The video they posted helps students understand the actual size of an atom which can be useful for some teachers to use in their classroom.

So in a nutshell if you are a teacher using the blog technology it can be a wonderful resource for not only your students and yourself but for other teachers and their students.  One thing I would be sure to do when blogging is to include links or provide the information for any outside sources that are not your original soul idea.  I know I have a lot of classroom ideas that I have came up with that I would not mind sharing with others so those items would be straight from the horses mouth and no links required to the original source.