Blog Sites for Social Studies
Blogs, short for weblogs, are places for you to post your thoughts, comments, questions to a larger audience (your classroom if kept private, the world if not) and get comments in return.
The best way to figure out how blogging works is to read the blogs of others. Not just blogs on history - but on any topic at all. Get a sense of the purpose for the blog, how the author writes, what they write about, how often they write. You can start with these by social studies teachers:
Teachers blogging about teaching
Teachers blogging about history
Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
Blog 4 History: American and Civil War History
Teachers blogging for their students
The Guerrilla Season Book Blog
Social Studies Meets IT - Check out the student blogs on the right
Collaborating with other classrooms
Seeing Ourselves Through Others
To read more about blogs or to read blogs related to other content areas, go here.
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