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Blogs…they are great tools for collaboration. I have always thought this. Years back when I had just started to see them being used in educational circles, I jumped head first and used blogs with my third graders. I found blogging to be an amazing tool in which students could get immediate feedback from myself and their peers. My students loved blogging and would even comment at home during the weekend and on vacations. I have since archived this blog - http://runkles1.tblog.com/ . It is nice to look back and see what prompts I used with my classes. The comments are hidden at this point, but the structure is still there. Those were precious days, and I sure do miss working with students on a daily basis. I now train teachers on how to integrate technology with the curriculum. I love my job, but I can’t help miss working with kids everyday.
Back to blogging, I not only had a blog for students, but other professional blogs, and personal ones as well. I spent almost every day posting, reading comments, commenting back… It was as if I was addicted to blogging. I had to re-evaluate my life and think, is this what life is all about? Why am I spending more time on the computer than with my family? So I broke away for a few years…
Well, people still blog a few years later, and here I am again. This year wasn’t my best effort, I will never put in the time I once did to blogging, but I will use it a few times a week to reflect on what I have learned or comment on something that has intrigued me. Let’s see how I do with this blog from this point on.
After spending some time over at Wordpress, I have transferred my blog over to this space. Just export from Wordpress and import into Edublogs. Why?
With http://edublogs.org/ you get-
- An educational blog with no advertisements
- Video Tutorials
- Plug-ins
- More upload capabilities in regards to files
So what are you waiting for?
