Professor Sean Mendoza recommended a some blogs. Those blogs are related to Education and / or some authors are teachers or work in the educational field. I believe that the main purpose of checking them out is to have some different perspectives about blogging for education. Sean asked us to visit the following blogs:
Blogs are public spaces for publishing our thoughts. Since the Internet became widely used, we have only to make click on a button in order to express our opinions and feelings. Because of this, blogs are public and accessible to students, parents and the school districts. As users of blogs and social media, we have to define limits to the people that connect with us and not use them as platforms for complaining about the educational system and disclose information about our students and what happens inside the classroom.
I'll do my best to answer the following questions for my class TEP519:
1.- What responsibilities do Educators have when they blog?
The Educators need to have very clear their personal purpose of using social media, who connects with them. Blogs are open forum to express ideas. Blogs could be a very useful tool to share those ideas and even teach something to the people that reads them. A blog used to offend or complain about the meaning of life is not useful and could create unnecessary conflict.
2.- What differences are there between Dr.Jenkins and Dr. Stagger? Which perspectives do I agree with?
The blog of Dr. Jenkings has many interesting articles about social problems where education is involved, and personal articles about stuff he wants to share. His blog is very personal and it is written in a friendly way. The blog of Dr. Stagger writes articles that criticizes the Educational system, but he writes in a intelligent way and ask the right questions.
Both authors of blogs uses many resources like videos and audios, which is cool, but takes forever for the browsers to load the content of the pages. Both of them abuse posting videos and audios, which leaves users without desire of coming back to their blogs, which it is a shame, because both of them offer good articles and their opinions are well educated. Both author question the educational system in their own style and they show a good way to do it.
3.- Are the Department of Education blogs useful or informative? If not, what topics would you like to suggest?
Seems like the blog of the Department of Education is used for posting inside news, which I find them very informative but not useful. I would like to see more articles about education, tools and books for educators and articles about education from the rest of the world.
Well. That is everything for today. See you in the next post.
I think when you post on social sites like Facebook you're agreeing to submit that information to the world wide web - it's no longer private. I'm considering taking my Facebook down because I don't want to jeopardize my privacy.
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