Both of my international teacher's blogs were found on the website edublog. This site is available for teachers and students. It serves over 275,000 bloggers at this time. It is a free service and has easy steps to follow on how to create a blog. This site offers what seems to be the blogging equivelant of some of the aspects of ACCESS, but on a national and international scale. 
The first teacher blog is from a male teacher in Victoria, Austrailia. The name of the blog is Tom's School Desk. The teacher is a fairly new teacher and is mostly interested in educational technology. His blog contains student podcasts on several topics, RSS feeds on certain topics, and seems to be used a good bit by his students. His blog is very straight forward and has basic information. This website is not very helpful with class content or assignments. The picture to the right is a picture of his school.
This picture was at the top of Mr. Swenson's blog.
The second teacher blog is from a male teacher in England. Mr. Swenson's blog is very nice and a great example of how teacher's can use a blog to help students stay organized. The main page has each classes agenda for each day posted. Students know exactly what was done in class each day. This is very handy for students who are absent and makes make up work easier for the teacher. The student knows exactly what to ask about when he or she returns. To the right of the agenda he has links to each of the classes he teaches, links to the school website and online grades, and archives. This blog also has downloadable assignments. For example, on February 4 his language arts students started a brochure project. The students are able to download the instructions to this project from his blog.
Excellent! Keep up the great work.
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