Followers

Just looked at the followers on my blog; I better get busy about following blogs of others. I also just found by own blog listed in the Google blogsearch!! Yikes. Certainly makes me think about being careful about what I write. What about our students? Do they even think about who is reading what they say, and following their chat rooms! We as educators need to continue to counsel students on Internet safety. This would be a good reason to set up a classroom blog, have students comment on each other's blogs, as well as making it timely for teachers to follow student thinking.

Truth: Can You Handle It?

The article is scary, but all too familiar. There are many times I have observed students lifting paragraphs from a document on-line, piecing them together to form their "paper" and immediately just printing it out to hand in, AS IS. I wonder if they really read more than just a few words; and even more, do they actually understand any of it? The quote, "The idea of having original thought completely terrified me" was very interesting to me. I assume many of our students feel the same way.

Intro to Blogging

Media mavin's the name, books are usually my game, but this time we'll try blogging about the new & exciting opportunities in Web 2.0 and beyond!!