End of Blogging Assignment

I must say I was very frustrated with this assignment the last two weeks, as I felt I would never figure out blogging!  However, going into week three I feel more confident and actually see how this could be very useful in a classroom setting.  I have been doing a little research and came across a website, www2.ed.gov.  This website is managed by the US Department of Education and the section that drew me in was "Teacher and Education Reform" it talks about how important technology is to the classroom and breaks down the benefits.   "When Students use technology as a tool or communication they're in an active role not a passive role.  Passive role is being a recipient of information from a teacher or textbook." (2.ed.gov)   When I read that I thought back to blogging and all social media's.  They are so popular among students of all ages so why not incorporate a tool that will engage students and make them more active in their studies at school.  I have viewed a few educational blogs and thought wow I would of loved to have had something like that when I was in school! It just keeps your attention more, hands on, and students can be creative! I am glad that I got the opportunity to learn more about blogging and learn that its just not a place people come and write their thoughts down.  Blogging has a lot of neat ways it can be used in the educational setting!

Changed my layout

I sometimes wonder if I am the slowest blogger out there!  I feels like it takes me forever once I log on to locate my blogs, figure out who has commented on what, then locate my fellow classmates blogs to see what they have posted.  Even though I have done it multiple times for some reason I still struggle locating the Dashboard.  However, today I did manage to figure out how to personalize my blog!  I was able to change my background and layout by editing the template under settings.  So this may seem easy to most, but for me I was ecstatic that I finally figured out how to do something new!  Whooooo!

I may figure this blogging thing out after all!!!!!

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