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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Bundle List




This is my bundle list from Google Reader. Thank to the Q and A forum in the class. Hopefully I'm off to a good start. I learned the importance of Delicious tonight, but reading my blogs. I used portaportal for years in my class, but I think I might switch over to delicious after reading about the toolbar and how easy it is to use. Thanks

Rss Dump





This is my screen dump from my Google Reader. Today I read about character education. Character education is something that schools should do more of.  In today's society with broken homes and families our emphasis should be on building good citizens as much as test scores.  This is something that isn't stressed enough at my school. Is it at yours?

Saturday, September 25, 2010

My first atttempt

This is my first time using blogspot and I'm currently trying to figure out how to use this website.  I'm hoping I can find a way to use this not only for graduate credit, but also in my classroom.

I'm use to working with wikispaces.com, but I think I can already see the relevance to blogger.com.  Blogs provide students or people with reflections on their ideas or events.   It also allows people to comment on other people's work or ideas. Regular webpages only contain certain information that rarely changes or can be changed.

I wonder how many educators actually use blogs in the classroom.  I use discussions forums on my wiki to provide a common place for students to reflect, but I wonder how many K-12 teachers actually use individual blogs in their classroom.

I'm very interested in learning more about blogger and other website like blogger. Without being a suckup, I really have appreciated the help from the professors so far and other classmates.