I am enrolled at UAA. For my current technology course, I was required to design this blog. My professor intends for the class to use this blog to help us to become better acquainted with different technologies, different blogger pages, and how different educational blogs can be beneficial to our emerging careers as future educators.
Our first assignment was to create the blogger page. After considerable frustration and time, I was finally successful. Yeah Me!!!
Next, we were asked to go to a number of different educational blogs and just poke around a bit. Done!
My next task is to comment on my experience. So, here it goes.
Since I have absolutely no experience with blogging, I am forever grateful with the helpful guidelines provided by Prof. Henrickson. Thanks!!
I started by going to the list she provided. I looked through quite a few. Some I found more helpful and enlightening than others. I finally decided to spend more of my time exploring the sites listed that previous classes followed.
One thing that I learned was that You Tube is not just for funny videos. I was surprised by the amount of information (for learning and teaching) is posted in video form. I have had professors who have assigned different You Tube videos for homework, but usually they were movie clips or interviews of some sort. I have had plenty of “funny” videos passed on to me through email, but looking through this educational blogs has definitely opened some new doors.
I think that every one of the sites that I visited had information or teaching strategies that would be able to be applied into my own future classroom. The one site, http://adifference.blogspot.com/, had different video labeled TED videos for math. I didn’t even know what a TED video was. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. The site offers different insights into math strategies.
I’m not sure who I will follow through the semester, I think I have narrowed it down to http://elemenous.typepad.com/weblog/ or http://adifference.blogspot.com/
As I leave this blog for now, I want o share two different thoughts from http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/.
First, teaching requires a special bred of people, the job isn’t perfect. Keep in mind that you have to work with what you get because as much as you would like, you can’t fire students or their parents.
Secondly, as you are starting out your new teaching career, develop a supportive social network of fellow colleagues; knowing the right people can make all the difference,
Teresa
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