Starting a New Adventure!

Well, here I go on a new adventure! Learning how to use blogs in an educational setting. I am taking a graduate level course about new web tools and starting my own blog is one of the requirements, so here goes. I have already looked at several educational blogs and am impressed with the information I have seen, both from educators and from students. Since blogs are ways to share information, I think I will start by linking to a couple of blogs that I think have a lot to offer. One of these is Anne Davis. Her most recent posting is about giving students time to reflect on what they are learning. We feel the need to always push to get our students to pass the state test, and we sometimes forget that all of us need to have time to process what we are learning or have recently learned. Her most recent post is food for thought for all educators. She has many more posts, and I am looking forward to spending more time reading them.

I also found a site where 5th grade students are blogging on a regular basis. They are called the "Fifth Grade Web Writers." I have only had a chance to read a few of them, but these students are learning how to write to a much larger audience, and doing a good job.

I believe that I am going to enjoy my new adventure. Even though I am considered a "digital immigrant," I know that I will be learning many new things during this time, and hope that I will be successful in bringing other "immigrants" with me as I explore this new way of learning.