Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Week 1 Reflection
Well I found that it was pretty easy to set up my blog, although I wanted to do it sooner but I have been sick. Since I work with younger students, I think I would have to use a blog as a way to communicate with parents. I definitely wouldn't be able to have my students have their own blogs since they are unable to navigate the internet by themselves. I would definitely be able to set up a blog for classroom information and incorporate links to educational sites and photos of activities in the classroom so that my students could look at and interact with the blog while they are with their families. I think a blog could be a great way to get classroom information to families and could replace weekly newsletters. I already send my newsletter electronically so a blog would not be that much different except that parents would have to get on to look at it instead of a newsletter being sent directly to their emails.
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Using this for parents is a wonderful idea. It is a way that would make it easier for parents to communicate with you and see items by date as opposed to a website. The newsletter would be a good idea, and the blog could have them all saved in chronological order for people to look back on.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kaelyn. I think that the chronological order of the post is a better tool than sending online newsletters.
ReplyDeleteI also find that writing a blog is far simpler than creating a newsletter. I was in charge of doing this a while ago and absolutely hated it. I had too send a newsletter home for the entire lower school which meant I had to hunt down teachers for information.
Do you think that you will switch over and do newsletters via blog now?
I think that starting next school year I will try to use a blog to communicate with my parents instead of the weekly newsletter. As long as my administration is on board with it...
ReplyDeleteMelissa