534 Week 1 Blog

So far I have found this class to be very relevant and interesting. I enjoyed our discussion in class on "Shift Happens". For me watching this is a real motivating force as I want to give my students all the skills they will need to be successful in the future. It is strange to me to think that for many of my students we are preparing them for jobs that have yet to be created. This brings me to the focus of the blog and that is what type of technology will I use that I have been introduced to in this class that I was previously unaware of only a week ago. Well, in doing the blog comparison assignment I am very interested in edublogs. The reason is that I teach in a very conservative community and I want to have a blogging host site that will ensure maximum security for my students and their blogs. It is my hope that as one of the first teachers to use blogs in my district I can do so in a a very successful manner and build off the positives of blogging in the classroom. I hope to do this while showing the skeptics in my district that it is safe. The other thing that I like about the edublogs is that there is no advertising on them. It is my opinion that my students are bombarded with enough advertisements and that more advertising could lead to more distractions. Finally, I like the idea that edublog was set up and founded by educators.