Thing 3

Friday, February 26, 2010

Thing 3

I am a Teacher Consultant, so I don't teach content in a classroom. I have a caseload of special education high school students who need minimal support. I would love to have a blog to connect them. My students do not have a time in the day when they can come together to discuss what makes school difficult and what helps, and I can see a blog fulfilling this need. I have some very bright students who have developed wonderful ways to learn despite their deficits, and to share this with their peers would just be fantastic. Since I have students in 9th through 12th grade I also see a blog serving as a mentoring vehicle, (wow what a great idea!).
In my job, I do a lot of "consulting" again a blog would pass information along so much more efficiently, and allow for dialoguing among all of the parties. Finally, what a way for parents to connect with other parents. I just love the idea of parents being able to share frustrations and successes. This is what I took out of Thing 3, there are so many uses for a blog and so many ways for it to look.
rose

Thing 1 and Thing 2

I feel like Dr. Suess! Anyway, because I already have a blog, when I tried to create one for this class I couldn't do it without the blogs being linked. I didn't want that so I asked for help, got it and now I am up and running. I did post a comment after completing Thing 1. I have thought about the article and video more today, and I am actually amazed that so many of the policies at school work against using technology! The idea of letting kids text to ask and answer questions is just facinating to me and I would love to see teachers let their students do this. I am looking forward to learning how to make blogging more interactive, and to be able to promote it as a way to instruct and access. Here we go!
rose schimmel