I began blogging about my daily life 10 years ago. As a
stay-at-home mom I had no idea who would read what I had to say. Somehow I got
a tiny following. When the service I used shutdown, I moved to another, and then
another. I never shared my blog with anybody I knew in real-life. Later I set
up a Blogger account to share with family. If you look in my profile you can take a look at it. Additionally, I have used RSS feeds
to keep track of many different things. Being a knitter I subscribed to many
knitting blogs. While I used Google Reader, I really liked using my iGoogle
home page where I had widgets set up for the blogs I liked to follow. When I
went back to school to finish my BS, I was grateful for my online hobby since
it served me well in my willingness to embrace technology. I resisted using
Feedly to replace Reader for no good reason. Now that I have it, I will load
some more of the blogs and podcasts I used to follow.
Martin Siegel’s reference to the development of e-learning
needing imagination infused is becoming more of a reality. Last semester the
class I took allowed us to use interactive software where the user can have
lessons and also participate in simulations that offered feedback. I found it
very engaging to the point where I wanted to protest one of my answers. Maybe I
am just a simple girl.
Where blogging fits in Dale’s Cone is only limited by ones
imagination. That being said, I don’t know how I would use it with my second
grade students! Of course it would be a great communication tool for the
parents but directly for my little people, I am not sure. There are so many
other things to use to help them learn. A blog would only serve as a place to
link websites. RSS feeds I think of more as a tool to keep up on things that
change like periodicals. Again, I think it would be lost on my second grade
kids. I guess I need to stretch my imagination.
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