International Blogging

International Blogging
One teacher teaches at an international elementary school in Guatemala. She uses her blog to tell about the lives of her students and their living conditions. Kelly, who is a teacher originally from Atlanta, now teaches in Guatemala and used her experiences from home to integrate into her teaching there. Kelly has a classroom of about 30 students and she uses new classroom technologies including blogs and internet searches to show the children what life is like in other countries in comparison to theirs.

http://www.kellyseagraves.blogspot.com/

Another example is teacher Lynne Crowe that host a blog that has been going on for seven years. It originated in New Zealand and sets a very positive example of using blogs in the classroom. This blog has information for all her students to view that are both fun and educational. It also gives the viewer access to links to all of her individual students blogs. Students can go online at anytime to see any new events that are going on in or around their school and they can also participate in any interactive learning fun Ms. Crowe may have posted.
http://room3tai.edublogs.org/
Teachers everywhere are using international technologies to let students know everywhere what is going on in the world that surrounds them. Many are coming to find that the things students do thousands of miles away are very similar if not the same as what they are doing at home. It has gone to show that the curriculum can be mostly on the same level and I believe this is only due to the new technological advances that we have today.
Without new technology, not all students would be able to grasps the learning concepts that they do not have available to them at home. Sometimes it can be hard to get the money for books, materials, and transportation to get anywhere. Computers are making it possible to do away with these things and visit wherever it is in the world that you might want to visit, and learn whatever it is in the world you may want to learn.