How would blogging help my career or work in the classroom? This is an interesting and stumping question, so I referred to the site Dr. Wall provided a link to in order to get some ideas churning. So many things a blog can do according to this site! The immediate thing that came to me after reading a few of these ideas was communication. By starting a blog for specific classes or classrooms you could make class communication both fun and easy for students. You could upload assignments to a blog page with detailed descriptions, links to resources, other safe informative websites and even an educational game if you find one pertaining to your subject/topic.
Another helpful thing a blog can be used to do is record your teaching experiences. By doing this you can share with teachers all of the globe your time in the classroom, how you solve certain problems, your lesson plans, project ideas and so much more! It would be a great way to give back to your teaching community and receive some feedback from peers in the field, teaching in different environments.
Blogs can potentially be a wonderful tool AND resource if only you put your mind too it; and even if you have a hard time doing that there are plenty of helpful sites out there that can give you ideas like the EduBlog Insights.
Krissy, what great points were presented! I agree that you can post class assignments and experiences that you have had in the classroom. You can also use blogging as a source of information for you parents or use it to post what happened in class/a recording of your lesson for class that day so that students that missed class can stay caught up!
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