Okay, so our assignment was to check out a few different blogs that are on the net. I chose to look at:
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
http://anne.teachesme.com/
http://www.thethinkingstick.com/who-chooses-the-communication-tool
I really enjoyed reading entries at all of these sites. They were all informative and made me think. Cool Cat Teacher covered different areas of education. The most interesting thing about this blog is how Vicki Davis, the blog owner, provides links that are related to her post. Anne Teachesme is the EduBlog Insights page, which is written by Anne Davis. Anne focuses her blog primarily on ways to introduce blogging to students and different ways to integrate the internet in the classroom. She gives some good ideas to use in the classroom. The Thinking Stick, written by Jeff Utecht, is true to its name, this blog really makes you think. I found his posts really interesting and intriguing. Jeff’s blog was the one I liked the most out of all of them.
Blogs are a wonderful tool for teachers new and old. For the new teacher’s they can look at the blog’s of veteran teachers for ideas and to know they are not alone. If a new teacher thinks that they are the only one going through something in the classroom and they come across a blog with the same story they can relate and see how that teacher dealt with things. For the veteran teachers, well, really all teachers, blogs are a place to share ideas and new insights with each other. Blogging can even be considered a new source of communication. This is just one way for teachers to use blogging, it is even more interesting to use blogging in the classroom. The way technology works is by opening up more resources and it’s up to the teacher to take advantage of them.
