Blog Reflection #1

At this point, what potential uses do you see for blogging?  Stephen Downes' article on Educational Blogging was written in 2004. Have we met this potential? What's preventing us from doing so?

I see blogging as a way to communicate to your audience what you would like for them to hear.  It is a good way to make announcements or if you forgot to go over something or would like to add something to what you had taught you could.  I don’t think we have met this potential yet, because there are so many people that fall into the baby boomer and up to the end of the Generation X category that are just not comfortable with getting to know how to work all the different types of technology that are offered.  I look at my parents that fall in the baby boomer category and they had a computer, but never had internet.  Now that they have internet I find them trying to Skype me every night and sending e-mails all the time.  Thinking about this I have heard a lot of people say they are scared and don’t know how it works.  So I believe we need to help each other to be able to take technology to the next level and help the Millennials learn to use this vastly changing technology accurately.

November's article, Creating a Culture for Teaching and Learning outlines six areas to think about and changes on the horizon with technology and education. Which one stood out to you the most and why?

Live videos in the classroom was the one that stood out to me, because I think about when I was working in a private preschool the parents had access by internet to view what was going on in the classroom.  Taking this into the classroom could be a good thing or bad thing depending on how it was used.   I really like the opportunity for parents to watch their children’s presentation and maybe taking that a step further and making award assemblies, plays, etc. available for parents to see.  So many parents now days have to work so much and it is hard for them to take off work to see these great moments in their child’s lives. 

My big thing is I like the possibility to Skype with another class from across the states or even overseas, so my students could see how other students learn and for them to learn about their cultures and heritage.

What are some of your expectations for this class?

I hope to learn how to become more of an informate then an automate, because I know what I do now in technology has a lot to do with automate.