Yesterday, I decided to follow up with my previous blogging assignment and have my student tech aids create blogs. For most of them this was fine. However, for my aids with serious senioritis, this has become the most hated project possible for them. They both titled their first entries as 'Day of Crap #1' and then they posted what they did for the day in binary code. I made the mistake of commenting back on here, and then that's why if you look on here, I now have 2 blog accounts. The other is to interact with them.
However, I know that they are not really too upset about this because their business teacher told me he saw them enhancing their blog sites during class. They will whine to me, but I think it will end up and be a good project. I will have to share the links in class.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Blogging in Teaching
I have been thinking of ways that I could incorporate blogging into my job. I am the school based technology specialist at a high school. I have student tech aids. Lately this student tech crew has been slacking off and not staying on task. They have been rude to teachers and breaking the acceptable use policy when not under direct supervision. Then the idea came to me.
After last Thursday night's stimulating discussion of blogging, I have come up with the idea to have my student tech aids, do a daily blog of what they did in class. They can report to me, who they helped, what they did, what problems they solved etc. They can also interact with the assistants in other class periods by reading what they have done and commenting on their blogs. I think the introduction of this assignment has come at the perfect time for my program.
After last Thursday night's stimulating discussion of blogging, I have come up with the idea to have my student tech aids, do a daily blog of what they did in class. They can report to me, who they helped, what they did, what problems they solved etc. They can also interact with the assistants in other class periods by reading what they have done and commenting on their blogs. I think the introduction of this assignment has come at the perfect time for my program.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Welcome to my Blog!
Welcome to my Blog! I can't believe I have one in my Graduate program. I have been encouraged from my colleagues in the SBTS world to become more famililar with Web 2.0 tools. We spent our last county wide meeting discussing Web 2.0 tools for half the day. I have also made silly ones in the past on sites such as MySpace. I am excited to learn how to bring a newer technology into the classroom curriculum.
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