1. http://www.leekrausonline.com/
This first link helps to give new ideas regarding teaching students through blogs. One of the blogs contains a video that discusses many different life scenarios. It can help give students helpful insight that they may not have listened to before. All of the comments talked of how the video helped the audience to understand the material so I'd assume that the students feel engaged with the topics.
2. http://learningcurves.blogspot.com/
This second blog seemed to be more geared toward teachers. It discussed some of the things that teachers simply would like to get off their chests. I felt like it would be helpful for a young teacher who might be questioning whether to switch their career to see that veterans go through problems too. Some of the comments seemed to be more friendly and playful than all business. This can go a long way to helping beginning teachers feel more comfortable which is why I'd consider to be a successful use of blogs.
As a future teacher, I know that I will need to be ready for increasing technological changes in an increasingly advanced world. I plan on allowing my students to have discussions about homework through blogs. Being a math teacher might make it harder to incorporate much writing into the curriculum, but I think that having the blog could help some students understand material better since they can learn both from me and from their peers. I think that hearing that their fellow classmates also might be struggling actually provides students with confidence because they won't feel as alone as they would without the blog.
I completely agree that, as future teachers, we will have to adapt very quickly to technological changes and advances in the world. Students are only going to become more and more competent with computers. I also agree that being a math teacher would make it hard to really incorporate a blog, but there are certain subjects in which it could be used, such as simpler math.
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