International School Blogs

For my international schools, I found one in New Zealand. This one was pretty neat to me because it's not just one class that is using this blog. There are different classes links on here and this is also used by students as well as the teachers. There is one teacher on this site, Mrs. H, who is apparently a big time traveler who's home is New Zealand. She has been several places and is documenting it all onto this site with pictures, etc.

She is currently in Bangkok, Thailand teaching there. She is writing about her life and experiences there for the kids to read about and see. Then, the kids are responding to her with questions and comments; nothing formal, just open conversation. Because of this blog, these children are able to get an idea of exactly what it is like to be in a totally different part of the world. The pictures Mrs. H has posted of Bangkok, Thailand are incredible.

My second international school was in Brazil. The crazy thing is, DON'T LAUGH, none of the page is in English, but I still chose it. It is still shocking to me that children this young are able to blog. These are young children, and you can see where they each have their picture up and you can see on the right hand side where each child's link/post are available to click on. Again, these are young children!!!! They are already way ahead of where I was at that age! I guess when we tend to think, "technology," we tend to think of only adults and, actually I guess, only Americans......How wrong is that?

When I was really looking at this site that has NO English what so ever, I was trying to figure out what it could be used for other than connecting the teachers and students as well as connecting the students with each other as well. I see where they are posting the newsletters on this site for the children as well as the parents to be able to browse through and see what exactly is going on in the school where their children are attending.