Week Two: Blogging

OK, OK I have really been working on this class and the others I am also taking this summer. I am just a little slow. I also went on vacation for 10 days and am playing catch up.

I have had my blog set up for a couple of weeks. I just finally got around to making the Voki. It only took me 6 - 7 hours over the course of two days to finally accoomplish the task. Today it worked fine. I am enjoying this new thing called "blogging". I am actually having fun. I am still learning at a snails pace because I am on the bottom rung of technology competency, but I am still trying. I almost gave up yesterday after 4 hours of trying to put my Voki on my blog. The weather didn't help when we had a 3 hour power outage. Michelle is my neighbor and I grabbed her while driving down the road. Thank you for the encouragement and phone call with help!!!

I think a Blog is an excellent way for teachers to communicate with each other on campus or within the District to discuss subject material and/or ask for advice with student mastery and suggestions to help or reach difficult students with behavior and/or learning problems. Of course, student confidentiality would have to be upmost when seeking advice. I do not think we use our District and Campus colleagues enough as a resource for growing, learning, improving ourselves. I believe we are afraid to admit that we do not know something or admit that we need help. I was once told by one of my professors, "you do not need to know the answer to everything, you just need to know where to go for the answers.

Blogs would also be wonderful to use in campus book studies. I think this can be done without adding more stress and another burden to the teachers. This avenue can be used to increase communication among campus staff, staff knowledge on educational topics, and promote peer cooperation in order to reach campus goals.