KWarren's Blog

My dad is fighting the fight. He is coping with prostate cancer. He is in my every thought. I pray for him daily.

I enjoyed reading about blogs, the definition of, and how to use a blog. I found this entire site to be beneficial and informative. As an art teacher I can post questions about famous works of art, photos of studnet’t art work and visual art events around our area. I enojed learning how teachers can past questions about current subject matter and having studnets respond in writing. I had a great idea that it would be so cool to have our students begin a blog in whatever grade they are in this year, and add posts to it their entire school career. I enjoyed reading about blogs as a useful to to incorporate language and writing into an interactive form with input from parents, stuents, and teachers. A teacher blog that posts questions about current subject matter can be a great way to introduce students to responding in writing and contributing collaboratively. For instance, a teacher might ask specific thought-provoking questions about a book the class is reading, and ask for students to respond through the comments feature with their ideas. This is often done as a voluntary exercise to help demonstrate the uses of blogs in easy steps.

Student Blogs

I enjoyed Mrs. Buboltz’ English blog. Her blog was organized and included photos, links, and relevant information. I feel she spends time pn her blog and updates it. This blog is a fine example of a good layout, organized, and easy to view. I can learn from this blog and realize how important it is to keep my blog updated and organized.

I enjoyed reflecting on the video. Our staff at the middle school was shown this video clip from “You Tube” as a means to challenge ourselves as educators to think outside of our box and to facilitate how we can incorporate technology in our classroom. In our district few educators have the latest state of the art technology.
Weekly chats with a colleague reflect upon frustrated students trying to log in and access their lesson with slow computers and bogged down computer labs. As a teacher of the visual arts I lov to allow students to listen to their I pods in class during their work time. I have students who ask, “May I show you a picture on my cell phone? It’s really cool.”
I am amazed at the student’s finesse of their technology. I think their skills outshine most of our teaching staff in the district. We, as educators, need to be able to have the ability to discuss technology with the students and be able to meet thier needs in an environment where computers are few and the technology is out of date as a whole. Hopefully our bond will pass and we will see some great changes in the techie world we work in.