Personal+Blogs

http://healthpeblogforeducators.blogspot.com/ Erin's Personal Blog - The Benefits of Full-Day Kindergarten
Check out my personal blog at []. I created this blog to discuss the benefits of full day kindergarten and share strategies for creating successful kindergarten classrooms. This is my first attempt at blogging, but I've found it to be very helpful. I hope other kindergarten teachers are able to use the information and discussions on my blog to work together to help our young students achieve in their first year of school and ensure that what we do is developmentally appropriate.

Rating (In terms of usefulness to kindergarten teachers): 4

I created this blog for my Master's class through Walden University. This is my first time setting up a blog, so I really am not sure what to do with it. My students spend the majority of their time working in a traditional woodshop, to use a blog would be uncommon. I would like for them to blog about their projects and how they are creating them, but that would mean losing valuable classtime to do the blogs. If anyone has an idea of how I could use a blog in my woodshop, I am all ears.

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The usefulness of this resource relates closely to the content of our class. It was created for the Walden University's Master of Education with an emphasis on Integrating Technology in the classroom. As the blog continues to grow, it could become a useful tool. Rating: 4 


===This resource is useful to our class in that it allows us to post and comment on issues we cover in class as well as in our own classrooms. It allows me to put ideas out there and see what others think about them. ===


Fayette’s Personal blogsite: [] This site was created as an assignment in my Master’s degree course requirement at Walden University. I look forward to integrated technology into my instruction as I learn more on how it impacts society and educators and our youth of this generation. Blogging in the classroom is a technology tool which many educators are still adjusting to using with students. Teachers are striving to find available time to learn strategies and to gain a trust in using and to become comfortable with integrating technology. Maybe the greatest question is, do we have time on our side since the trends in technology and media are changing so rapidly?


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Suzie's Personal Blog- Movement within the Curriculum
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I created this blog to encourage fellow teachers to consider adding bodily kinesthetic activities to their lesson plans and provide a place for individuals to share ideas used within their classrooms. This was my first attempt at creating a blog, but I believe that this specific blog could prove to be a useful tool. Many teachers struggle to meet the needs of students with special needs (ADD, ADHD...). There is no need to have a dance background. Simple hand gestures, head movements and interaction between classmates can be incorporated daily, to meet the needs of students with various learning styles. Rating: 4

**Michelle's Personal Blog ~ Keeping Music Alive Within The Classroom** at []

I created this blog for our Master's class and chose a topic that created some stir in my building. This years fourth graders, had music dropped as a special and it was placed with choices. The issues that came to me, were parents did not understand why fourth grade became the cut-off when they just started to learn how to compose music last year. With music being dropped, I now am faced with parents and my principal asking me how I can supplement music into the curriculum to compensate for their child's musical loss. With this topic, I was interested in getting outside inputs and insights for how to handle this issue.

Rating: 4

=**Brianna Nelson's Personal Blog Site- Health & PE Blog for Educators**=
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I created this blog for my Masters in Education Program. This blog is designed to help other physical education and health educators discuss new and innovative ways to add technology to their school physical education and health programs. This was my first attempt at a personal blog, however, I contribute to many blogs by adding comments and posting ideas. I also incorporate blogging into my health classrooms for students to communicate on various topics related to health and nutrition.

Rating (Physical Education/Health Teachers): 4 This usefullness of this site is great for PE/Health Teachers of all levels. It realtes closely to the content of many health and PE classrooms throughout the US. Hopefully as the blog continues to grow it will become more useful to other content areas also!