Educational Bloggers Network

The more I've been looking around, the more I'm seeing educators engaged in thinking about the integration of blogs into learning. This American site is one of the most promising sites I've seen so far.

Abut EBN

Sponsored by the Bay Area Writing Project and Weblogger.com, the Educational Blogger Network (eBN) is a community of teachers and education professionals and supporters who use weblogs for teaching and learning. The network assists members to advance weblog integration in education.

Mission Statement

eBN is a collaborative of teachers and organizations using weblogs in education. Its purpose is to help its members, kindergarten through university, to access and use weblog technology for the teaching of writing and reading across the disciplines. The network provides a forum for educational professionals who use weblogs, an array of opportunities for teachers to continue their professional growth, and a framework for cooperation to deal with issues that affect the integration of weblog and other digital technologies into teaching and learning.

Membership

eBN is open to any individual or organization actively engaged in education, from kindergarten through university. Membership is international. Individual members are weblog-using teachers and supervisors of programs in elementary, middle, and secondary schools, faculty in college and university departments, teacher educators, local and state agency technology specialists, and professionals in related fields.

About Weblogger Sponsorship

Weblogger has been hosting Frontier based applications ever since June,1998, including the first community service Manila web site hosted on a non-Userland server: villageNews.Weblogger.com (on the air since October 22nd, 1999). Since that time, its services have increased and developed. While dedicated to achieving the highest levels of customer satisfaction by delivering performance and reliability to Manila users from all over the world, Weblogger places a special value on service to the educational community. The company is pleased to collaborate in supporting the Educational Bloggers Network.

About BAWP Sponsorship

The Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) is a cooperative program between UC Berkeley and San Francisco Bay Area schools. For 30 years, BAWP has been a vital resource for teachers and schools in the Bay Area and beyond, not only in the teaching of writing but also as a model of professional development, teacher leadership and reform.

BAWP, founding site of the National Writing Project, has throughout its history recognized the primary importance of teacher knowledge, expertise, and leadership. BAWP's founding principles and beliefs are at the heart of its support for the community building of the Educational Blogger Network. With slight revision for this digital initiative, these principles and beliefs include the following:

• that teachers are the best teachers of other teachers;
• that weblogs are a tool for learning across the disciplines;
• that teachers using webblogs to teach should write a webblog themselves;
• that the knowledge of classroom teachers is essential to successful integration of any technology into learning.