Wednesday, April 30, 2014

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Silvia Tolisano
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Wow! What a blog site! Silvia Tolisano is a former World Language teacher currently dedicated to globally connected learning, 21st century skills and learning, and technology integration. This lady is the bomb.com, and if you haven't checked out her blog, take a look at it here.

I commented on a post she made recently about students who were preparing for SLC, or student led conferences, where students prepare presentations for their parents to let them know how they stand in the state of their learning. Each student had to prepare a blog post for each subject which contained a title, an artifact, and a reflection. The amount of time students spent preparing for the SLCs was considerable, time-consuming, and tiring, even to the point of students complaining they were sick and tired of blogging. However, after the process of the interviews was over, the students agreed they were better off for having gone through the process. Check out the entire blog post here, and my comments to Silvia below:

At the beginning of 2014, I was thrown into the world of blogging for the first time. As a 20 year veteran of a public school system in Alabama, the opportunities for blogging had not been presented to me as a requirement, or even really a suggestion. Now, however, because of a certification course, I have learned to create my own blog, follow other teacher blogs, comment on peers’ blogs, comment on students’ blogs, and basically blog until I thought my eyeballs were going to fall out. I completely understand some of the comments of your students about feeling like they were blogging to appease the teacher, however, I can admit I have gained an immeasurable amount of skill in areas I thought I was already proficient. Plus, I didn’t realize until after starting a blog the value of creating a PLN. Thus, your objectives for continuing with a rigorous program of SLC, blogging, and reflection holds merit.


Will Deyamport

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Will Deyamport started this blog in 2009 as a way to connect educators and lead discussions about digital media and to help educators improve their personal and professional lives. I found this discussion between Dr. Deyamport and Dr. Eva Lantsoght interesting because they exchanged dialog about their blogging experiences, and what got them started blogging. You can visit Dr. Eva's blog here. Below are my comments to Dr. Eva after reading her interview with Dr. Deyamport.

I have been a media specialist in an elementary library for 3 and a half years, but have 20 years overall experience in the field of education. Before this year, I had never blogged, and approached it with hesitation primarily due to time constraints and basically feeling as if what I had to write wouldn't be of interest enough for another person to want to read. The later may still be the case, however, I have learned so much from other bloggers and the PLN I have begun to develop to the point where I can see blogging becoming another extension of my profession. While I am yet the reluctant blogger with regard to what I personally post, I would eventually like to do as Eva stated and write blogs which would help answer questions instead of writing reflections about my own experiences. Thank you both for your insight and for sharing your expertise on the topic of blogging.

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