Blogs, much like Twitter, are growing in the education sphere. When I taught elementary school, I followed more blogs that I can count from all of the adorable and smart teachers you can imagine. They were full of ideas just waiting for a new spin for a different class. When I started teaching high school 6 years ago, there was not much out there for blogs, even more specifically, content based blogs for high school teachers. As you start to wonder about all of the wonderful things we can suddenly do with iPads at every child's fingertips, start with what is already out there!
This list from Ed Tech is from 2013, but most of the blogs are still kept up to date and the bloggers are rather impressive. It serves a great jumping point into the blog world for education.
Blogs can also be a quick way for you to create a website to use with your students if you don't plan to attach a ton of files. I know a few Geography teachers who have a blog unit where the kids have to submit blog posts to her main blog and comment back and forth on each others for each area they study.
Twitter of course will always remain important. For Social Studies there are many chats that happen on a regular basis. Most are for teachers, but around AP testing time there will be some for the students as well. #HSgovchat is a great example of this. They will later archive the entire chat on their blog for teacher who missed the chat. Much like the #ColonelsNOW that we have been using this year, you can search the hashtag on Twitter and follow the chat. I installed Tweetcaster on my phone and computer so I can monitor multiple feeds and Twitter accounts at once.
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