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Hello Everyone!
I think the website was great! It was very user friendly and I believe the information is accurate. I was very impressed with the overview and the chart they created to show all of the information that goes into what we have to teach. With the skills going around the outside, we have to keep in mind the 21st century skills! For teachers that have been teaching for many years, this may be hard to let go of previous plans, and update them to new (technology) plans. I really do not disagree with any of the points made. Honestly, I did not even know there was a website like this! For my students, I have to keep the advances in mind... especially since I teach high school (and the job search is in their near future). As a contemporary teacher, I need to keep my ideas fresh and keep looking for new ideas to try in my class!
Best of Luck everyone!

Blogging at school!

In my high school I TAM teach with Marine Biology teachers for Juniors and Seniors. One of my teachers I work with actually used blogging at the beginning of the year! He used edublogs. Each class had their own section to respond to. He would post an initial post, and have the students respond for practice. Once they were familiar with this process, each student did their own assignment. Each student was assigned a section from the chapter to do research on. They had to give facts about their section, include pictures, and answer the section review questions. Once they were completed we used our projector to show everyone their postings! It was a really neat project.
Now that I am in charge of a blogging project, I was thinking of having my students pick a marine animal and do research on the animal. There will be a set of instructions for the research, but they will be able to include any type of additional facts and pictures of their choice! This will be a good 'end of the year' project to give them the option to pick their favorite animal we previously studied, or to teach us about one we did not!

To Walden Classmates

Hello Classmates! This is my first blog, does anyone else have experience with blogging? I chose Blogger because I found this site to be the most user-friendly. I do believe edu.blogs would also be very beneficial once I become more familiar with the blogging world. This would be a great way to have our students post discussions about chapters and respond to others thoughts. It also saves paper! What are your thoughts on blogging?