K12

The Greater Houlton Christian Academy, http://www.ghca.com/, is using blogs on its website to keep parents and kids informed about what is going at their school and in each classroom. A parent can go to the website and click on the teacher blogs link and then find their child’s teacher. Once there they can tell if the teacher has updated the blog within the past week by looking for a red star besides his/her name. For example, Mrs. Ann Sherman’s blog who is a first grade teacher has her spelling list posted. However, because there is no red star we easily know that she has not updated it within the past week. Mr. Nathan Foster’s Blog has a red star and you know that his test schedule that he has posted is current.

Bill Hill Consolidated School, http://www.bhcs.org/, also used blogs to keep its students and their parents up on currents events at the school. Ms. Lewendoski’s blog has pictures and information of a trip they took to Plymouth. Mrs. Baldridge’s blog is letting the students and parents know that she had perfect attendance in her classroom.

Both these school are using blogs on its website to keep parents informed about things happening at the school and in their classroom. I think that this is important because I believe there is a gap in communication between both parent and teacher that needs to be closed so that our children and thrive in today’s world. The main downside to the blogging to keep parents informed is that in the poorer communities a lot of household don’t have computers or access to one so the information in the blogs would be useless to those student and parents.