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I must say I am a hands on person. However, even though a person may be a strong listener she or he must be able to read and be a strong reader because there will be times when the mediator isn't always present. There are a lot of times i have sat in the classroom listening to the teacher blah blah blah and had to go home and read the whole chapter. But because i did both listen and read I had a better understanding of what it was i was trying to learn.

International schools that use blogs

Mr James Chapman the head teacher at http://www.dhahranbritish.comDhahran British Grammar School,has a staff of 28 and an enrollment of 406 students. He uses blogs to keep the parents up to date with what the school has going on and future events. He posts the students cirriculum and menu. I didn't see much about the acutal classrooms use of blogs, however just the fact that the school having a blog I a great tool for keeping the parents involved.

Teachers are converting to blogs because they Provide a place for regular writing practice as well as cutting done the paper trail. I also gives the student and teacher a one one form of communication with direct feedback. I gives the shy student a chance to shine.

Mark Ahlness, a third grade teacher, http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/arbor.html at Seattle's Arbor Heights Elementary School introduced blogs to his class as a project. He said never in 25 years of teaching had he seen a more powerful motivator for writing than blogs.

Here is a picture of Mr. Ahlness's class working on their blogs. Mr Ahlness says the first step is to learn how to type. Classroom blogging is wonderful I didn't learn to type until I was in the eighth grade I had a choice Auto shop, Home Ec., or typing I picked the easiest.

Access and ALEX are alike in many ways. I gives the teacher a wider scope of options to incorporate the web and standard learning in the classroom. People want to learn the key is to keep them interested. I would say spice and creativity is what these sites bring to the classroom. No one wants to see a person standing in front a dry erase board for 7.5 hours day ...... after so many days the teacher would began to sound like the one on Charlie Brown, I know you remember that Dr. Strange LOL

As a teacher I would take advantage of all that ALEX has to offer. I would use the personal workspace and professional learning the most. I am learning that I if want to become a teacher I am going to always need to be in the know. Alex is a tab that I would most defiantly add to my igoogle. I am just taken away by the fact that they post lesson plans, it gives a guide as well as new ideas of teaching children.

Alex make the actual process of preparing a lesson to teach less of a hassle and now since almost everything is available on the web teachers have more time to spend with their family.

The Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX) is an awesome web site for teachers and parents. It lists every subject known to be taught in schools and gives a detailed chronological order to teach by. I went to the mathematics section of the site and clicked on 4 grade and saw exactly what my son was going to be learning in math this year. We changed schools this school year and I was a little upset to see that he was doing rounding when last year at his former school he was already in fractions. I was under the impression that he was in a poor school but now I know that this criteria is state wide.

As a aspiring teacher alex is a great companion it shows examples of lesson plans while offering space to make and save ones own lesson plan. Teaching has really upgraded and is rapidly loosing its paper trail. Now all I need to do is make my Laptop personal.

Adding Links and Pictures

First we will review methods for creating a link. Our link will be toThe Fischbowl , a blog for technology training used at Arapahoe High Schoolin Littleto, CO.
Here is a picture from Littleton Highschool

The Future

I'm a little nervous and excited of what the future holds for me as a teacher. I am interested in becomming a teacher because I love the idea of learning new things and sharing them with people who want to learn. So maybe if there are going to have workshops that will help educators when this shift happens I think my students and I will be ok.