Homework Week 1

1.  Discuss your thoughts about blogging with students.  What are some steps that should be taken to prepare students before blogging?  How might you approach that topic of internet safety?  How might you use blogs in your classroom?

I have never been in a situation where I used blogs in a class room setting. I think that it might be tough for some students to use them at a lower levels of school. I have read a lot of blogs but never used one at all for myself. I would make sure my students have no questions about how the blogging website is used and how to upload everything through the website. I think that we can monitor what kids do at school but there isn't much us as educators can do while away from school. It will be tough using blogs in my PE classes but I might do things such as post articles, exercises, and activity/wellness logs for the students. 

2.  Examine your national and state technology standards.  Include a link to them in your blog.  What standards would be met by classroom blogs?  Give an example or two.

The national standards are pretty much identical to the standards for the state of Oregon. I would be able to meet the Research and Information Fluency standards. I would be meeting the requirements by having the students be able to gain access to my blog and understand the exercises that I post in my blog.

3.  What are the lesson objectives?  What technology is incorporated?  Explain how the lesson meets the national and state technology standards.  What is your personal reaction to the lesson?

There are no lesson plans for Physical Education. However, if I was going to use a lesson plan in my blog, I would make it very easy to access. I would include the exercises or tasks I wanted the students to do and possibly put in a YouTube video as an example.