What a magnificent way of being able to communicate our thoughts with individuals in our state, across the country and abroad.
I was thinking about how our class discussion board has evolved into a network of exchanging, and sharing ideas. With this, I got a good feeling inside of me about the way colleagues should interact and learn from each other. There are no “put downs,” we respect and contribute to others thoughts. Blogging is the same way. It is a great to collaborate with other professionals that have similar concerns and issues that we face in our daily challenges of educating our children.
Even though there is distance between all of our classmates and colleagues, I feel a sense of closeness, a relationship of family. What do you think? Would this be a part or aspect of having a positive culture at our school?
Leticia,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading your discussion posts along the way and now we get to do it in a different venue. I too feel that this is one way to helping us bond together as a class and probably could help in our school's culture as well. The major problem I see is getting staff to buy into it. We have some ulterior motive, it being a part of our classwork, behind our use but will they feel the same need. I believe that leads to the modeling we will have to be doing along the way. I know that it works for drawing us closer together as a group and look forward to more conversation along the way.
Thank you Bo for your comments. We have a passion and we are teachers "from the heart" and I think that this a driving force that we have. Just like we take on the daily challenges with our children, we have to take on the challenges of getting our colleagues to follow.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, a colleague of mine and I are already planning on using blogging as part of our teaching with our kids at school. I can't wait!