http://mrscaldwell0.edublogs.org/
The author of this blog is Mrs. Caldwell who was an English teacher at Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham, AL. Though she is taking a year off after becoming a mother, she uses her previous year's class blog as an example and is working on helping other schools to implement this practice. Looking through her blog you can see that every few days she would post a question(s) for her students to answer. Each question pertains to some piece of literature or at least some theme they have been studying about and they use what they are doing in class to supplement their answers. She also keeps them informed with what they should be doing as far as assignments as well as her status on certain things such as grading. She has additional links which take you to her personal website as well as to many sites she feels have interesting information. I thought it was very interesting that she is trying to change career paths and go from teaching to helping others learn how to teach more effectively. She mentions on her personal website that she is very supportive of using technology as a way of unifying both departments as well as school.
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=17192
The author of this blog is a 6th grade teacher at Greater Atlantic Christian School who is in her 21st year of teaching. Julia Osteen refers to her blog as the "English Corner" and uses is as a way for her students to communicate with each other. The students take books they have read and make comments of different opinions they have about them. Other students then comment on other students' posts. This provides a good way for students to talk with one another and provide another source of knowledge besides just the teacher in the classroom.
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