I thought the blog would be avery difficult thing to navigate. I am no the techy type to say the least. What I have discovered is that the blog is very easy to use. It is much easier to navigate than I had imagined. When you are first introduced to something the task always seems daunting, but it gets better as you go along. I think it was a good idea for us to have continued blogging throughout the entire 3 weeks. It seems as though if we had just discussed it and gone on, I would have struggled to use it.
I believe maintaining a blog would be a very useful tool to teaching. What better way to reflect on your teaching than bouncing your ideas and failures and successes off colleagues. It seems as though the community of bloggers you choose would be more than helpful. They may be honest to a fault sometimes, but we all need that.
I could use a blog in my classroom in order to keep up with the honest feelings of the students in my classroom. I belive they would be more willing to be forthright and honest on a blog than in the classroom. I would be able to get a feeling for whether or no the class was going to fast or not. This is very important in a math class especially early on. Since they are very shy early, a blog would allow those feelings to come out so I can address them right away.
The e-portfolio makes it more important to label your blogs more appropriately. I am not sure how I can use the idea in my professional life or in my classroom. I would have to contemplate and play with the parts more to figure that out.
July 7, 2009 at 11:43 pm |
JD,
Great demo today. I didn’t comment because I thought everyone gave you great suggestions for revising. ( I guess my job is done) I hope you use your ideas in the classroom and let us know how it turns out!