Bobby's Post 3

3. What surprise you about this experience? Why?

One of the big things that surprised me about the blogging activity was the demanding amount of time it takes to do 9 postings each week. They were not that big of postings (only 6 comments and 3 posts), but sometimes I forgot to do it in the amounted time. Another thing that surprised me was how cool it is for my work to be actually posted on the Internet. I have like my space and face book, but they are totally different from this website. They are just for friends and other stuff, but this website showed people what I have accomplished in this class.


5. What role should teachers and students have in a blogging experience?

In the blogging activity, it is the student’s job to do the posting of their work and ideas, and it is the teacher’s job to guide them and helps clarify their ideas on the way. With the classroom activity post, it is good to have an actual teacher there to tell of her experiences and inform you of mistakes or potential mistakes with your project. The one thing I didn’t see throughout this blogging activity was the acknowledgment that when you get experience of something new, you make your own feelings and adjustments there. I was glad for the advice from the mentors and fellow students, I will consider them when I write my own classroom activity for my real class, but I think that my ideas will change and my philosophy will change once I have a class of my own.


6. What issues or concerns do you have about using blogs in the classroom?

I do not think I would ever use a blogging activity in my classroom, I did not see that much educational value from it, besides the fact that your work is posted on the web for feedback. The blogging website is a good tool to learn and know for an activity or a club, but I don’t think it is absolutely necessary for a classroom setting. Most kids, if they do blog, would be doing it from home for fun. Maybe in a couple of years if I see the educational value in this activity, then I might begin to use it in my own classroom.


7. What did you learned from the experience?

I cannot say that I came out with a lot of new skills that will help me to become a teacher, but I did learn a new computer program. It was fun to post my work, read other peoples work, learn a little about their lives, and work on a classroom activity. During this project, I learned a rudimentary process for a classroom activity. Some people make it sound that these activities are really hard to do in real life, and need all the details up front. I choose my activity on the fact that I wont be teaching for a couple of years and understand the fact that my process will change with the students I teach. But nevertheless I learned a format for a classroom activity.