The Blogging Experience

When I first learned that I was going to be keeping up a blog page I was a little annoyed. My only experience with them was that they were a new form of tabloid journalism spreading gossip about celebrities. I didn’t have much spare time to communicate through cell phones or e-mail much less wasting time gossiping on a blog page. Through the assigned readings on blogs and the blogging requirements I was able to broaden my understanding of them and open my eyes to their potential. Blogging has many applications, some are financial, some are for awareness, some are very personal, and some are educational. At the present I am not very interested in any application other than educational. As a math teacher my uses may be more limited than other subjects but I do see blogging as a way to create more communication among my math students and it allows me a way to incorporate writing into my curriculum. I feel to create writing and communication opportunities through a medium in which my students are very comfortable will entice them to participate in these types of activities and experience greater success than with classroom pencil and paper. I have already begun setting up my classroom blog to incorporate weekly journal writings and discussion questions for my future students.