I've been on a personal learning journey the last several months that's led to understanding the world outside my four classroom walls a little bit better. I've been doing much behind the "screen" type of things besides blogging. I'm not very good at putting my blog on the top of the very busy end of the school year priority list.
For my technology leadership class we were asked to look at a blog of a fellow Hoosier educator, Amy Heavin, to look for the audience, purpose, and realistic frequency of blogging. She has a narrative style that combines her family life with her job as an elementary principal so I think the target audience is mostly fellow educators with the purpose of taking time to look at everyday occurrences you see in kids, your students and/or your own, and reflect to enjoy the learning and growth that goes on in even the simplest of tasks. I liked the positive tone to the posts when many are negative about education in general these days, especially things you see reported on the news. Amy typically blogs about once a month, but has had 3 posts in May.
For me I really enjoy reading other elementary teachers' blogs that I usually link up through Pinterest for classroom lesson ideas and activities. I often wonder how in the world they have time to create such cuteness because I hardly have enough time to get things ready for the next day at school, run here, there, and everywhere for my daughter's after school activities, and then somehow get enough rest to do it all again the next day! And one big thing I question is...why in the world would anyone want to read my thoughts???
I see myself more realistically doing writing practice with my students through something like Kidblog than doing a blog myself. I like the idea of sharing little snippets with fellow educators in weekly educational leadership Twitter chats, but see the possibly of sharing a classroom blog with other 2nd grade classes and my students' parents with my class as the authors probably once a month.
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