Blog Reflection

The site I chose was blogspot.com and the reason I chose this site was because I had used it in past TE classes and I was familiar with the set up. I felt like it was fairly easy to use and add pages and posts throughout the past classes and also TE 808. I think I will continue to use this blog site because of how easy it was to navigate through and how easy it was to add things to it.

The most challenging part of maintaining this site is that it is something extra that needs some time put into it to make it useful and meaningful. Remembering to update the blog and to add certain things to it definitely makes it a challenge. However, what is beneficial is that it gets updated right away and it is a great way to communicate and share ideas online.

I think that I would like to continue to use this blog in the future. I think it would be a great tool for my classroom and really add the necessary communication between school and home to take place. This would be a great place to have reminders about field trips and projects due. It would also be a great place to upload the homework each week, so if a student loses it they can print off a new one. I think it would also be great to upload videos, possibly Jing, each week of myself going through the homework so if a student gets stuck they can get help.

It is hard to use the blog in the class because our district restricts all blogs on school computers. That is why I think the school to home connection would be great. However, I am aware that not all students have computers at home. So instead of getting help online they would have to get help the old fashion way and come in for a face to face session.