Reflections on reflecting
The first blog that I visited was one called “In Practice.” I was intriqued by the title because I feel that a lot of educational programs and practices sound great but are harder to implement or actually do than originally thought. I enjoyed this blog. The author was concerned about the mandationof programs and lack of real teaching going on since the implementation of NCLB. Like most schools, instruction is being driven by data. Which is wonderful, BUT, too much data is taking away from instruction. The amount of time I spent my last year of teaching giving assessments, running records, QRI’s etc was mind blowing! Alot of the assessments seem to assess the same things and were redundant. The author of this site felt the same way. It was nice to “hear” that other teachers are concerned about instruction being pushed aside to collect more and more data. I did feel a nice connection with the author. I will return to the site to see what other things she has to say.
The second site I commented on was http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/. I found this while searching for sites that showed WEB 2.0 applications. He had a previous blog on the best web 2.0 applications for school. It was a great list and had good explanations for each site. The comments started almost a year ago and yet they were still going. He lists website of the month too! I like that he also sent me an email thanking me for my post and inviting me to view other things on his site.
Overall, I liked commenting. The only problem is I feel like I want feedback on my comment. I did get it from one site but have not seen a reply or comment on my comment from the first site. Either way, I have discovered that there is a wealth of information out there, and many people like to blog about it!
Jen
