I added this week a number for blogs to my RSS reader. Since this is still something new for me I am learning what to do with this reader and how to find things that interest me. Since I teach in an area that doesn’t have allot of these type of resource I am focusing on personal links now till I because more familiar with the reader to find i blog on CTE and teaching automotive. The three blogs that I have chose for this blog are;
- Dr. Oz at http://www.drozfans.com
- Edutopia at http://www.edutopia.org/
- Educational Technology and Moblie Learning at http://www.educatorstechnology.com/
The reason I choose these three to follow is mainly I found that the information they are putting out is relevant to my personal and professional interest. Starting with Dr. Oz, what more can I say, he has allot of good information on keeping healthy. Since his show is something I cannot watch all the time I needed a way that was fast to see what topics had been cover on the show and what information I could use in my daily life to help in keeping myself healthy. Then I found Edutopia, which is a education site addressing allot of current things going on in education. It is a place to see and find new things and ideas that will help me become a better teacher by change my teaching strategies and designing lessons.Then I found Educational Technology and Mobile learning. I found this site and I am still exploring it, but it has allot of good information on resources which can be used in the classroom. One of the resources that caught my eye was the one titled; The Comprehensive Guide to Using Google Drive for Teachers and Students. There is allot of information there and since my district just bought Chromebooks for all the teacher I will now have something to use to teach myself on how to use G-Drive in my classroom.
When it comes to using Twitter I am not sure if I like this idea or not. I am under the mindset that I don’t have to tell the world my business. That being said, I did find and am following some other twitter accounts. The ones I found to follow are Ford Motor Company, SkilsUSA, and Overhaulin. I chose these since they all have something to do with my subject area. Will I use it? I do not know, but I will keep an open mind about it.
I can see that using these different Web2.0 tools might be helpful in my classroom, but the biggest problem is finding the time to incorporate them into my lessons. We as teacher just don’t have the time to do all this with everything else we have to do. We hear all the time that we are in education for the kids, but we, as a industry keep loading more paperwork onto yourself and it is the kid that are losing out. If I had more time I would use technology to better reinforce my lessons and communication with students and parents. I am thinking at this point in time that I will start using these things to better communicate information between student, parent, and myself. If this helps in freeing up sometime for me then I will start looking how I can change my lesson plans. I will start out small and work my why up from there. If time was not a factor I would do all my lectures and lessons online out of school thus leaving me the time in school to do lab work. Great idea, but just no time.
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