Blogache!

I just started reading blogs and can see how you can get sucked into the blogosphere...wow. My students who are already easily distracted could waste countless hours, but I do realize there is good stuff out there. I like that you can check out the blogs on Technorati and other places to make sure they are okay. As for use of blogs in my teaching, I would love it for book talking and creating lists of high interest reads recommended by teens. We are already able to do this kind of on our Destiny library catalog, but that is just to post reviews. Another use I see is creating a speaking and evaluating blog or wiki where students can respond to each other's speeches and give comments and I can post you tube or other speeches for them to watch and analyze. This future blog could come in handy in the fall when the election is going on because that creates engagement for some of my students and I have them do an election issue speech. Any way by the next blog post, I should have some links, I found a few articles and a few cool literary blogs to update my reading lists. As of now, this blog doesn't really have much of a purpose or identity and just so you all know, my baby sleeps in our "office/nursery" so I'm sitting in the dark doing this trying not to disturb his slumber...Oh the joys of parenthood. He'll probably be blogging by age 2!