Review of teacher blogs...
Review of teacher blogs...#1
URL: Wockerjabby
REVIEW:
I thought this was a great site! Wockerjabby, what a catchy name. Anyhow, this site really captured my attention because the way the teacher writes... she is a real person. NO WAY, teachers are not actual people... are they? I remember as a elementary school student thinking that the teachers lived at the school and that they were mean, evil creatures put on this earth to torture students. How funny that I decided to become one?!
She writes about her days. Her struggles and her successes. She writes with raw emotion. She also posts pictures of her trips and her family. This lets other teachers in on her and also lets her students and their parents in on what kind of classroom they will be dabbling in.
SAMPLE POSTINGS:
abridged
(these are some of the posts I think are most interesting or relevant for one reason or another. feel free to tell me if you think I've missed anything important.)
4.24.00: for the first (but not the last!) time, I publicly contemplate the purpose of weblogging.
9.4.00: on the night before my first day of classes as a college sophomore, I have some adventures in a rainstorm.
9.9.00: in trying to explain why and how I care about humanity, I end up sounding like a sop.
9.23.00: rugby makes me happy. I think about this as usual after the saturday morning game.
10.3.00: some discussion inspires me to think about communicating with other people.
11.23.00: it is thanksgiving. I talk a lot before I remember to think about the things I'm thankful for.
OVERALL OPINION:
From just these few early posts, you can tell what kind of person she is. She gets upset with computers just like the rest of us, she feels for people like the rest of us, she has real emotions, and she is sometimes selfish like the rest of us at times. I really enjoyed learning about her as a person and a teacher.
#2
URL: Are we doing anything today?
REVIEW:
This page is very professional. Very clean cut and tidy. What the teacher wants as a teacher is evenly distributed throughout the entire blog. Although there is a mere image that teachers don't have all the answers and I deffinately identified with that in the quote, "Everyday a student walks into my classroom and asks, 'are we doing anything today?' Sometimes I ask myself the same question."
SAMPLE POSTINGS:
Donna's list at huffenglish.com.
OVERALL OPINION:* Probably weigh grades by percentages instead of figuring by total points, as I do
now.
* Collect fewer work samples, or I will go crazy with grading.
* Create more rubrics.
* Do more formative assessment, less formal assessment.
* Figure out what to do about parents and students who “treat a ‘C’ grade the same
way that students a few years ago would have treated an ‘F.’”
* Determine whether or not this is something my department and administration
buy into and support (my gut feeling is yes, but it’s better to know before I start).
This teacher is always thinking. This teacher also has it all together and that shows. This is a blog where you know what you are gonna get and you are happy with the outcome. I enjoyed exploring all of the links.
#3
URL: Not Quite Grown Up
REVIEW:
This blog was a blessing to read because it was made by a college student. This student also had an undeclared major, which brought the picture home to me. I am a delcared Ed Foundations student, but its nice to know that I'm not the only slow starter. She also used del.icio.us which we just learned how to do. So I'm thinking this student isn't that far ahead of me.
SAMPLE POSTINGS:
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Note to self.
You're going to be doing this (writing less0n plans) very regularly for the rest of your life, so you better get used to it now. Go go go! Once you're done, you'll be done with school for the year (and with this school in particular for 8 months).(I'm studying abr0ad during the fall semester, so I won't be back at my school until next January.)
(Wait, that's sad! I'm not going to be back here until January?! That just occurred to me here and now. This will be so strange. (I should stop talking in parenthetical remarks and get back to my final lesson plans.))
OVERALL OPINION:
She was real to me the most out of all 3 teacher blogs. She also had links to other teacher blogs. This was great.
Name:First Year Teacher
- Location:Chapel Hill, North Carolina
posted by Kristal @ 5:51 PM
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