 Welcome to the second episode of Tech Chat. This episode we're going to discuss KidBlog. This is a great online tool where kids can blog events, share stories, and have other students read their stories and make comments. We're going to visit Mr. English's third grade class at Thomas M. Ryan Intermediate to see how he's using it in his classroom. KidBlog is a place where students can log in and then they can post something for themselves and then they can actually do responses to each other through other posts. The kids come in on Monday and they're always ready to tell me about their weekend. And so I decided to start using KidBlog because they not only get a chance to tell me about their weekend, they can tell all the other kids about their weekend. So we start on Monday and they log in and they post about their weekend. And then later we go back and the kids can start reading other students' posts and then they respond to them through their own KidBlog and then they can read what everybody else wants to say about their weekend. My kids enjoy doing KidBlog because it gives them a chance to respond to each other and it gives them that authentic audience of all the other students in the class. They know that anybody can read it and so they have that need and that want to be able to post something meaningful. I find KidBlog to be valuable because it saves me the need for them to share on Monday morning and it also lets them share with each other in a way that works for them.