Blog Post #5: Blogging for Practice

Blogs serve as a way to share information and gain insight into your own potential experiences by reading about someone else's. In this way, I feel the blogging has helped. However, I think it would have been better to allow us to share what we had experienced in our PDS's and what stood out to us the most. Sometimes, even asking questions or posting worksheets we created, sharing activity ideas and "things that worked" in the classroom. I felt we were too often asked to comment on the process of things and not enough on the details of them.

I think in general, blogs are meant to serve as a support system and a basis for other opinions, information, and encouragement. As pre-service teachers, it is important to have that "I understand, I'm in your shoes, too" type feeling when we read about our partners' experiences and thoughts. Also, it's important to have that over-head voice of our facilitator commenting to us and sharing with us more advanced and experienced thoughts/ideas. Both opinions are valued and can help build us up as preservice teachers.

My question to my partner: What is the biggest change (in yourself) you felt you have made since we started blogging (in the classroom, in teaching philosophy, in style of blogging, etc. etc.)?