This is officially my first blog entry. However, I do read many blogs that deal with my profession. As an art teacher, I spend many hours trying to come up with and find new and exciting lessons for my students. In my searches I have come accross many blogs that I now follow of art teachers from around the world who post thier lesson ideas along with pictures and detailed instructions. It has been a great enhancement to my own curriculum. Other than reading blogs, I have never created or posted one myself. As a professional, I find it a little nerve-racking to post personal information/journal in a place that is public for all to see. So far, that has been my main reason to not create a blog.
During this course, I am looking forward to learning about using a blog and seeing how easy it would be to maintain. In the future, I would be interested in starting my own blog about my art lessons to share with other teachers/artists. I am also interested in learning or reflecting about how my students could use a blog or how I can integrate using a blog into my curriculum. Since I teach at the elementary level, I have not yet heard of how other teachers have used blogs and am interested in learning more.
Thank you to Sarah for setting this blog up for our group assignment! I look foward to working with everyone in the group and learning from you all :)
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Stacy, it seems like we will all be starting at the same point in our blogging experience. As we progress, I hope we can share our experiences that may help us to feel more like bloggers. I have had the same nervous feeling about what I should share but this seems like it fading as I find more learners like myself who are ready to learn new ways of improving teaching in our classroom.
ReplyDeleteLorna,
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought that it would be a struggle to participate in the blog discussions, but I have found it pretty simple once I got started. Being able to read other group members experiences with blogging helps to easy the nervous feelings that I was having as well. Once I was able to use of the blog as a tool to discuss with group members I felt better about what I should write about.
Being able to use a blog as a tool for the classroom seems an easy task for teachers and students. It is exciting to think that parents can also become involved with a classroom blog. When I was teaching I was asked by parents often how they could become involved in their kids learning process but most had very little time to be such a participant. If I had known more about the process of blogging it would have proven to be a great way for parents to know what was going on in their kids classrooms. I hope to learn a great deal from this experience and from group members.