Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Blogs I would use
As a techno-idiot I have little experience with blogs as a professional development tool. I do not have any specific blogs but I can imagine the types of blogs I would use if they exist and I can find them (I welcome suggestions or links if you feel charitable for the uneducated). A good professional development blog has post by experts in various fields of education including technology integration, differentiation, world language instruction and many links or suggestions from teachers actually doing what the experts suggest. It should be easy to navigate and understand but interesting and helpful. Teachers have little free time during the school day and the same busy lives outside of school as anyone else so blogs used for professional development should not be complicated or time consuming but user friendly and helpful.
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Check out some of the searching tools listed on the webpage and see if you can identify any that you might want to follow. I heard a good suggestion at a conference this week - take 15 minutes a day to follow blogs (through RSS Feeds), check Twitter or read a magazine article. You have to limit yourself or it will take over your life, but at the same time you need to set aside time for professional development or it will never happen.
ReplyDeleteHi Trish:
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your comments about how and why educational blogging sites will help you as a teacher! I hadn't thought about EXPERTS joining a site to lend valuable information. This would be a great source for current knowledge on a aubject area of interest.