Blog Roll and Tags

This week the work was very interesting it was fun to go through and see all of the people that blog. I had no idea there were so many followers and so much educational information. I would say that when I first started using blogger I didn't like it too much, I thought of it as an online journal and that was it, just random people talking about their own opinions on things. After reading many people's blogs my eyes opened up to how neat and educational blogging can be. I can read about information I might not have been able to find by myself I can read about people who have a disability or a teacher who has a class with some disabled kids and things they do to accommodate and how these kids live and learn every day. The blogs I choice to add were mostly on technology. I think Assistive technology is great and becoming more useful to students, they are improving the devices used and making it as easy as possible for the students to learn and communicate the best way they can.

One specific blog I chose to follow is on helping parents with special education children. This is a teacher who loves web 2.0 and collaborative technologies. He posts about if there are any differences between teachers and students, he goes to conferences and blogs about what went on at them. Hid blog is very eye catching he has jokes, music and fun facts!! He has some server behavioral students in his class and he writes about ways he deals with them and things that seem to work and some that bombed when he tried them. This is helpful if someone has a class with students misbehaving they can see some techniques that have worked for other teachers in the same position.

Another blog I added to my blog roll was about a teacher who supports teachers in integrating technology into their curriculum and instruction. He blogs have very good pictures and videos and all sorts of ways to bring technology into the classroom, not just for special education kids but everyone. I think technology is such a great tool to use in a classroom to help students learn, instead of having them listen to a lecture and get bored they can interact with a smart board or computer and these things also help to keep their interest. She writes about internet safety and how important it is to teach to your class if you have them using a blog or face book. What I really enjoyed is she takes actually pictures or finds ones from flikr of things going on in her classroom to post onto her blog; a visual image is always helpful when reading.

This week’s assignment was enjoyable I liked reading all different blogs on educational and learning so many different things. If I come across a problem in a classroom I am teaching in I know I can go to blogger to see if anyone else has had the same issue and ways they found helpful to fix it. I think this is very helpful to the education of students, many teachers can find ways other teachers are conveying a subject or ways not to do it because it didn’t work. If I teacher blogs about some project that didn’t go good this helps the next teacher to not try it that way. Students with disabilities can read about how technology has helped other students learn and communicate better in the classroom making them feel more comfortable and accepted.