Thursday, June 17, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Reflecting on Day One
The first day of the Technology Advanced Institute really got me thinking. Reviewing Microsoft Word and Powerpoint was useful. I probably wasted a lot of time worrying about putting music on Powerpoint. It's something I'd like to do, but it's certianly not imperative. Now that I think about it, working with it the "old way" is fine. I'll keep working at how to make that work for me, but it's not a big deal.
What really got my mind working was the blog, though. It's a new thing for me. I've always done a lot of writing, but have been writing more especially since my Summer Institute in 2005. This writing has been both personal and work-related. I've done a lot of work writing for my classes and for my church. On the personal side, I've done a lot of writing, too. What I think is cool about the blog is that this personal writing could have an audience and possibly get some feedback.
On the way here, I was thinking about a writing group I started at my church. We meet on Sundays and share devotions we wrote about passages in the Bible. This past spring we put together a devotional book which we distributed. (Who knows if anyone really read it, although we did get some feedback which was positive.) Anyway, I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool if we could post our devotions on a blog each week. We'd be breaking new ground with our writing and have a posible audience and community who could respond with their writing.
As for my classroom, I think a blog would be useful. Having my students work on blogs might be a good way to get writing practice in. I'll have to think about how that would be done, though. As for a teacher blog, I doubt if I could keep it up everyday, but connecting it to a website would be cool. I'm looking forward to learning more new things today. I feel like a sponge. :)
What really got my mind working was the blog, though. It's a new thing for me. I've always done a lot of writing, but have been writing more especially since my Summer Institute in 2005. This writing has been both personal and work-related. I've done a lot of work writing for my classes and for my church. On the personal side, I've done a lot of writing, too. What I think is cool about the blog is that this personal writing could have an audience and possibly get some feedback.
On the way here, I was thinking about a writing group I started at my church. We meet on Sundays and share devotions we wrote about passages in the Bible. This past spring we put together a devotional book which we distributed. (Who knows if anyone really read it, although we did get some feedback which was positive.) Anyway, I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool if we could post our devotions on a blog each week. We'd be breaking new ground with our writing and have a posible audience and community who could respond with their writing.
As for my classroom, I think a blog would be useful. Having my students work on blogs might be a good way to get writing practice in. I'll have to think about how that would be done, though. As for a teacher blog, I doubt if I could keep it up everyday, but connecting it to a website would be cool. I'm looking forward to learning more new things today. I feel like a sponge. :)
Monday, June 14, 2010
Ok, now I've heard of some more blogs I want to show you, and I want to check out for myself, other than The Lord of Rhetoric's which of course is very intriguing! One is the IWP blog called Indiana Writing Project News. Another is Two Writing Teachers. And finally there is a website by Alena called My Language Arts Class.
Smiling Days
So this is how I feel about blogging right now...like a baby! That's ok. I'll figure this out eventually.
My First Day at Advanced Institute
So this is my first blog. No idea what I'm going to do with this, but I do see possibilities. Since I like to write, I may just get addicted to this. But would anyone want to read it? The Lord of Rhetoric wants me to put his blog on my blog!
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