Post(s) tagged with "blogs"
This blog post provides some suggestions for administrator blogs to follow. I have a couple of them on my RSS feed and it’s nice to get the varying perspective sometimes! It might be worthwhile to check some of these out.
Tumblr Teachers, if you aren’t following your favorite non-Tumblogs via RSS feed, your life is not as easy as it could be. Read Richard Byrne’s post to find out more about RSS feeds.
I’ve been reading my favorite education related blogs and newspaper articles via RSS feed since last summer, and I feel that outside of Tumblr, it’s provided me with the majority of the new teaching resources I find (this is also partially because I don’t go on Twitter as much as I should…)
Lots of example links and resources.
Most of you are probably familiar with these, but it might be a good resource to share with your colleagues who claim to be terrible with technology.
This is a great resource! When I gave a workshop on wikis last week, I was surprised at how many teachers did not know what they were or how they could be used in the classroom.
Source: positivelypersistentteach
Also, blogs you should be reading outside of Tumblr:
Natalie Munroe, the teacher suspended for blogging about her students, has posted a rebuttal regarding the whole situation.
Her case is of particular interest to me, as a teacher-blogger myself. “I need to write,” she exclaimed. “That’s what I do. I don’t think that, as a teacher, with or without the scandal surrounding, I should not be allowed to do something that everybody else is allowed to do.”
What do you guys think about all this?
*EDIT: Click here to view her most recent blog post, even show her your support if you agree with her stance.
You can view some of the original news stuff here.
Source: everydayramny
Education policy is a hot topic right now, as I’m sure you are all aware of. Larry Ferlazzo makes some suggestions about blogs to follow related to education policy here. If nothing else, it’s a good idea to stay educated about what’s going on.
Like my former self, most people have a preconceived list of circumstances under which they believe blogs may be valuable – and in some cases that list is pretty short. This article aims to help folks broaden that list. It might even give you an idea for a strategy that uses a blog to meet a need in a course that you teach.
Strategies for using blogs in a course
- Academic reflection – students react to readings, in a sort of online “book club.” In one political science course students wrote about daily reading in the NY Times.
- Regular journaling – students make regular entries in a purposeful online diary. Some experiences lend themselves nicely to this, like study abroad or a service project.
- Creative writing – foreign language students alternate writing paragraphs for a progressive story. In one English class, each student had a semi-private blog, where they shared poem drafts.
There are five more if you click through!
Source: world-shaker
I know I’ve been posting a lot of these lately, but looking at these posts is a great way to find new educational blogs to follow.
Check out Richard Byrne’s recommendations. Maybe you’ll find some new education blogs to add to your RSS feed!
Who I am: A third year high school history teacher at an urban(ish) high school in New Jersey.
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