Blog Visits:
--This blog is pretty neat because it is designed for education petitions. In other words there are petitions and comments on those petitions posted on this website for various school related topics. Some of the top petitions that are up today include: save first place daycare for homeless toddlers, tell scholastic to stop pushing corporate PR in the classroom, and tell your senators to save the Pell grants. I found this blog easy to use and I even signed one petition that I felt especially attached to. This blog is very useful because not only can you sign petitions and learn about the politics of education but you can also post your own petition to get support from other blog followers.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rural_education/
I found this blog especially appealing because it pertains to rural teaching and education. The blog contributors post news articles and information on rural education and how we can better the education of our students. Some hot topics include the availability of resources in rural classrooms and the different grants that are available for rural schools.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/college_bound/
I found this blog to be more like the reading a novel in comparison to an assigned reading. In particular I found that this blog talked about the interests of college students and the new college news. For example scholarships are posted on this page, college testing strategies, and ideas on ways to cope and excel in college. The blog also has information on new and different majors that are offered and great internship and abroad opportunities.
http://educationtechnologyblog.com/
This website is a really neat resource for teachers. I found some of the apps and software that the blog recommends to be extremely interesting and exciting. I like this blog so much that I have bookmarked it so that I can stay up on the technology in order to meat the national technology standards for the teachers. On app that the blog featured was the swipe tap tap app, which is a puzzle game that could be used in the classroom to work on the concentration of the children.
JJ, I like the blogs you chose to explore are very different from one another but each has something valuable to offer. I checked out the education technology blog and it seems like a really cool blog to follow. I like that it offers recommendations for apps and software on it, there are so many apps out there I wouldn't know where to start! I'm also going to check out the education change blog, I'm curious to see which petitions I am drawn to on the site. I think it is important to be aware of the issues surrounding education and learn what we can do to help :) nice work!
ReplyDeleteJJ, I like how you follow your blog education. I also like how you keep post of what we does or do every class meeting assignment. I just check the education blog and I agree with you that it is a very useful blog. I think I will go back and check on that blog again.
ReplyDeleteHey JJ. I really like http://education.change.org/. I think it is fabulous that there is a place online that has education petitions! I think we should promote this more in Alaska in the ASD and in your district in Haines. It would be great if we could get more awareness for these petitions.
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