After viewing a few blogs found on Google, the one that caught my attention most was actually the first result given when I searched. Alfred Thompson's blog, which can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/, is very informative. He is a computer teacher, so most of his blogs I would say are directed toward other computer teachers. In my opinion, it could also be directed towards people who are interested about new software and/or how things operate within a computer, or maybe even for a caring and involved parent. Posts he had written that caught my attention were "How To Teach Your Child to Program", "How Software Is Built - Updated", "10 Golden Rules For Teaching Computer Science", "WiiMote (Wii game controller) and Microsoft Robotics Studio", and "More on teaching kids to think - AKA CS concepts for looking things up". Alfred uses his blogs in order to help parents with their children, teachers with their students, or just help an everyday gamer use their new Wii! A picture of Alfred Thompson is posted below:
Another one I stumbled upon was a blog created for Ms. Nelson's fifth grade class found at http://msnelson.blogspot.com/. This one seems a little bit different from the blogs that Mr. Thompson has posted. This one was more for the parents. Ms. Nelson would post blogs often about what the students have been learning in detail. So not only would the parents be able to see what progress had been made in their child's classroom, but the student could also get on in order to review the lessons of the day. There were a few posts made that gave extra information to the student, for example, more links to help them on one of their upcoming projects. I actually think that her creating a blog for her classroom was a great idea. I may even use a blog one day when I teach so my students will have no excuse for not knowing what they missed or when to turn something in because it will always be available online. Below is a picture of Ms. Nelson' class:
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