EdTeachWorkshop is Andrea Hernandez blog. In her post on January 27 titled, Hitting Publish (Once a Week) was written to encourage her as well as others to write more often. In her blog she had a post that she had viewed that asked the question, "why do we have writers block but not talkers block?". The moral was that we talk daily so we are constantly practicing when it comes to talking. Most of us do not daily write down our thoughts or just write in general. This is the reason for our writers block if we were to make ourselves write daily even if it is only a few words then we can conquer our writers block.
There was a second part to her post discussing whether we can actually teach something that we do not practice on the regular. I felt that this part of the blog tied in with the first part very well. For if we do not practice our writing then it can not improve. Now this part can also be taken away on its own for if we are not practicing certain skills or activities that we once did we should still stay updated on them. In her blog she made the statement a teacher should, "teach as a learner themselves". This statement is very true we are learning daily and should always want to learn.
My Response
I really enjoyed your blog. The post that you put up on not having talkers block was a very good one. I have never thought of it in those terms before. If we practice writing more and do so daily then we will grow as writers. Even if we are only to write in a journal or if we blog. You made a very good point on if we actually can teach something that we no longer practice on the regular. Your statement that a teacher should, "teach as a learner themselves", was very true. It reminds me of the statement that teachers should learn from their students.
Teachers Blog #2
For Andrea's next blog post I had to go back a ways to find one since she had not recently posted. I actually skipped over the first two that I found because that I found one that I felt directly related to EDM310. Here post title was, What Is Quality (in a Blog Post or Comment)?. In this post she discussed how her 5th graders took part in a Student Blogging Challenge. To her dismay the good idea that had been formed turned into a sour one for some. In this challenge teach/mentors were assigned to the students. The jobs of the teacher/mentors was to encourage the students to keep writing as well as leave comments on the students work. Many of them failed to do so. Andrea goes on to explain that blogging is not an assignment or worksheet but a process. The process of blogging takes not only writing but reading. The defenition that she included for the word process is, "a process is a series of actions, changes, or functions to achieve a goal or result". She stated this because she felt as if many teachers that wanted students to blog would hand out an assignment and then abandon it and give another assignment. It almost seemed as if she felt blogs take time to be developed and continuously nurtured.
In the second part of her blog is based on a task that was given by a fellow educator named Silvia Tolisano for anyone who was willing. The task was for teachers to identify quality blog post and comments. The point of the task is to give a better understanding of blogging to teachers in order for them to help their students. The project has allowed for Silvia to break down to teachers how to evaluate and help students to improve their quality of blogging. I checked out Silvia's own blog where she was working on the guide to help teacher's learn about blogging for their students. Stepping It Up-Learning About Blogs for Your Students, is actually a really good guide. I feel that it could actually be useful for those in EDM310.My Response
I really enjoyed this post. Since I am currently in EDM310 at the University of South Alabama I am having to do a lot of blogging myself. Part of this class is to actually learn how to write a quality blog post as well quality comment. I found your post quite useful and I visited the link you included for Silvia's blog. I was very impressed and I plan to use it for future reference.
-Constance Dixon
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