While blogs are being condemned as a dangerous adolescent pastime, schools are starting to use the popular online journals as a teaching tool. Students in an independent study physical education class ...

On her blog, Danielle reflected on a Mariners game, the WASL and a trip to Geneva, garnering online comments from Texas and Canada. Her blog was part of a class project started last year by her ...

If you’re looking to take your students’ work to the next level, creating a class blog is a great way to motivate students to produce their best work — precisely because with a class blog, your ...

There was a time teachers lagged behind their pupils when it came to computers. "We have to show them what to do every time it crashes," eight-year-olds complained loftily to their parents. But ...

Teacher Matthew J. Clausen looked at his Web-design students—their fingers flying over their computer keyboards—and marveled. These 10th, 11th, and 12th graders—even the sullen or quiet ones who never ...

Do you participate in class? Are you quiet when a teacher asks for opinions? Or do you just need a way to fully express your opinion about an idea? Here's a suggestion: Talk to your teacher about ...

Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University. You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge. This is the third post in what is rapidly becoming a series on ...