Hello to all phloggers! so sorry for posting this late in the week. My technological life was interrupted by computer-modem-technical-difficulties. I want to thank you all for the wonderful time you took to research some of the blogs on education. As I started this assignment, I wanted to find blogs specific to two subject areas; art history and special education. As a student, for the last 10 years, while doing my masters and Ph.D. coursework in Art History, I would have benefited from looking at blogs on the subject. I think I only came across one or two that truly helped me. I noticed from your posts that more material has been added and the quality has increased as well. Now as a teacher for APS and as a student in this great program I find it very refreshing and a true privilege to be able to use this technology for research and development of class assignments. I still feel that I am not very familiar with navigating the blog universe and I may not be searching
The first blog that I came across is a little confusing because the blog is within a webpage. In a way, the blog supplements the content of this site that is devoted to various aspects of gifted teaching. I found it more conducive for the purposes of the work that I am doing now to focus my search on special education blogs that were specific to gifted education. I have a strong interest in pursuing a specialization in SPED, specific to a category that is defined as twice gifted.
http://resources.prufrock.com/GiftedEducationBlog/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/483/Default.aspx.
This is another site that I found. It is a blog that provides articles and different points of view concerning teaching styles and different teaching environments.
http://giftedexchange.blogspot.com/
Last, this is a blog that is very fun and useful for organization ideas in the classroom.
http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/search/label/classroom%20organization
Hello. From your last link I was directed to theorganizedclassroomblog.com and started thinking about all the ways that teachers choose to create learning environments. When I have my own classroom, I do hope that it stays organized somehow. One major problem is the lack of respect that many students show for anyone else's property. As a substitute teacher I have trouble keeping a middle school room clean and orderly for just one day, so I can't yet imagine how frustrating it would be to fight the chaos all year long. I think I'll go for the Less is More approach and try to keep my room bare.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it nice that we could look at all these blogs this week? So many teachers, so many ideas...
Hello Minea, getting around the blog spots a little late. My apologies. After browsing your suggested blogs I was amazed at the amount of teaching blogs there are! I found many links to science(my content area)that were beneficial. I understand that you are an art teacher. I remember having a great time in art classes in highschool because everything was hands on. Science and art naturally overlap. Both involve investigation of the natural world and sometimes the abstract (quantum mechanics). Science and art allow a person to form ideas in their mind and then experiment with hands on activities to test their ideas. There is immediate feedback when this happens because the student can see what worked and what didnt. Learning to problem solve and trouble shoot during an activity is an extremely valuable skill that has "real world" applications. Science and art provide students with invaluable and often immeasurable skills.
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