Thing #2

Part 1
I think blogs are a good avenue for laying out short opinions and ideas, or rants if you will. I enjoy that blogs are instant, interactive and ever-evolving. Commenting and contributing to one anothers blogs give us instant insight into people's ideas that interest us and more possibilities for further discussion. I know I have had my opinions changed on certain ideas by reading other people's points of view and reflecting.

Blogging facilitates learning in many ways. It provides new avenues of learning in a more interesting way, it assists with reading and writing skills as well as critical thinking. With students, the interaction between classmates and respect for each other's writing will prove meaningful and more powerful as they become better contributors with more thoughtful things to say.

I am a mere art teacher, but I would love to one day be able to share more art and information with my interested kids via blogging. I think its a little farther off for me, especially at the elementary level, but I am hopeful about collaborating with our computer lab person and trying some new things out. Unfortunately all their computer time now is for skills reinforcement and remediation, blogging is not high on the list of what they need to to know for CRCT.