chapter 3

Chapter 3: Weblogs

The author begins by stating that as teachers we can use blogs to reflect on our teaching.   Would joining LinkedIn and participating in the conversations in the educational community of reading specialists be considered a start in this effort?  That is what I have started to do.  I think this kind of posting is easier that starting my own right now.  When time permits I’ll start using the Edublogs Award site the author mentioned as well as the other Good Educator’s Blogs sites that the author mentioned on page 53.  An obvious recommendation the author gives is that we use blogs to reflect professionally before we begin to use them with our students.  That way, so we increase our comfort level and knowledge of blogs before using this tool with student in the classroom.  

A good suggestion mentioned was to have students reading blogs on the content they are learning in class.  In preparing students to write an argumentative essay in class on the topic of Freedom of Speech, my students have read many articles and visited various websites.  With what I have learned thus far in class with creating an interesting blog with pictures, text and videos, I can see creating a similar classroom blog on Freedom of Speech for students. N p. 53