Hello and welcome to my blog! This is my first time for blogging so hopefully I can get the hang of this. It seems strange to me to keep a journal online for anyone to see, but it does seem like a great way to communicate and have great discourse for an online graduate course. Keeping my blog up-to-date seems like a daunting task with all the other millions of things that I am involved in. I don't think it will be as easy for me to blog on the job as say someone who gets to use the computer all day and their company doesn't track their Internet access (I have friends that do this). I instead am generally on my feet all day: if not teaching, then walking around the class making sure students are on task and understanding the material.
See, I am a high school Algebra teacher. I have 45 min or so to make the biggest impact I can on my students and I like to use every minute of it. I do have a plan period, but again, that is spent planning, collaborating, checking e-mail, checking attendance, making copies, grading papers, and so on. So as you can see, my day at school is busy pretty busy so I am going to have to make sure I spend my time wisely when I am at home. I will have to blog during commercials of my favorite shows it sounds like.
Well for all you who read this, hopefully I will have something interesting to say each time I get an opportunity to blog, and hopefully you will learn a little more about what it means to be a high school Algebra teacher who is blogging for one of her graduate courses.
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You certainly are busy. I can relate. I am lucky if I can check my email by lunch time! I definitely think that blogging could be a fun experience in a graduate class.
ReplyDeleteHey! How are you? I am so with you on this being my first time bolgging. Technology and I are not the best of friends. Hopefully I too get the hang of this. It's taking me a bit longer than I thought it would, but I'm starting to get the hang of it. It's good to have you in my class again!
ReplyDeleteMegan, I was definitely excited to see you were in this one as well. I think I am getting the hang of this so if you ever need help just let me know and we can meet up. Hope you had a great summer. Any luck with a teaching job? Nevermind, just checked your profile and saw you are teaching Kindergarter. Congrats! I bet they are keeping you busy. :)
ReplyDeleteI can definitely relate! I've never blogged before, especially as often as we are going to in this course. It should give us greater insight into the world of blogging! Hopefully we can all help each other along the way. I think that we all can learn a lot from eachother. Let's hope for a great semester!
ReplyDeleteI love how open you all are to blogging- I know it is so hard to communicate online for this courses so I hope that this works better than a pure blackboard site- and yes I remember the days when sitting is a luxury!
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