Blogging Across Borders

5th Grade Classroom in America

Blogs do not have to be shared just between teachers, students, and parents in one particular classroom. A blog could be used to communicate with a classroom in another state or even country! For example, the teacher and students of a classroom in Maine could create a blog that talks about current events in the United States, or what they are doing in their classroom, or about cultural topics.  The teacher could create a connection with a teacher in another country, Spain, for example, where that teacher's classroom of the same age-group would create a blog doing the same.  Thanks to technology, the blogs could be translated into the classrooms' respective languages OR the blog could be a resource for teaching students a new language.  At the same time, students would learn more about what is going on in the other country and become more familiar with another culture, hopefully dispersing the ethnocentricism that most students are bound to carry with them.  

5th Grade Classroom in Spain