Week 5 Blog Three

Blogging

I started a blog about 6 years ago as an online journal for my friends to keep up with what I was doing. I have no idea how many people read it, but it was a quick and easy way to write and share. Now I have learned that there are so many blogs out there, I could subscribe to a new one each day and expand my learning exponentially.

It’s almost like no matter where you live, you can find an expert to teach you something new, like going to professional development workshops whenever you wanted.

My head is swirling with ideas of how to use all this knowledge I am finding and bring it to students in my classes. I would like to know where they are with Web 2.0. I wish that a few teachers from my school had been required to take this course together, then we could take it back to the faculty with more power than just one individual.

Here are some useful links I found while pondering this subject.

Using Blogs and Wikis are Core Skills


Turn Your Blog Into a Newsletter With RSS to PDF


Web 2.0 and how to use it. I think this would be a fabulous way to start a discussion with my students. What an amazing power point presentation and a way to go link by link with a class discussing and discovering as we go.

Through the blogs in this class we have shared ideas and teaching tools. I had no idea how much blogs could create a community until now.