Week 2 Reflection

Create a post on your blog titled “Week 2 Reflection” and answer the following:

What did you learn?
I learned how to begin a blog and how to begin manipulating information within my blog. I also discovered that setting up the blog was really quite simple.

How will you use what you have learned?
I will be able to establish a blog for my students and hopefully my parents to enhance communication and learning in my classroom. I'm excited about the possibility of having a different medium for communication and reflection for me and my students.

How did you feel about staring a blog?
It was relatively simple. My concern now is not starting the blog, but maintaining it and using it effectively.

What do you not want to forget your blog?
Like the rest, I'm not sure I understand what this question is asking.

How can this be used in the classroom or in your educational role?
I feel it could be used to help other members of our department communicate. I also plan to use this, at this time, as a reflection tool for my students to improve my informal assessments of their knowledge. I have found that one of my weaknesses as a teacher is checking frequently for understanding so I'm hoping this will enable me to be more aware of how my students are feeling about the material being taught in class.

Should you use this in the classroom or your educational role?
Hopefully in both. I hope this will be a good tool in my classroom but I also hope it will be a way for me to continue improving myself as an educator and working with people in my school, district, and even educators in other cities, states, and countries. There are so many great resources available that I am hoping blogging will help me access more of those resources.

What questions do you still have about this your blog?
I am wondering about how to moderate my blog. I want to know how to limit the people that have access to the blog, can post comments, etc. I'm not sure if that knowledge comes from just experimenting with the blog or if there is somewhere I can go to learn how to change those things.