My Experience With Educational Blogging

Blogging is a more informal way to share information, experiences, or situations happening in today’s world. This fast and up to date platform has provided a great way for teachers to communicate more about what is happening in the educational world through educational blogging. There are many websites that promote blogging but one has surfaced recently just for educational blogging, it is called Edublogs. This type of platform is becoming increasingly popular so that is why I decided to give it a try as well.

I began to read other educators' blog posts, and the first one I read was by Kallen Miller, “The Importance of Music in Education” which provided many reasons as to why music should have its place in schools. I could not agree more with her and the evidence she provided. NafME is a great source and organization that fights for 

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music and provides great resources for teachers as well. There is also the importance that music is like a “sports team” for some students. They build relationships and make memories with this activity so there is a social aspect to the program as well. Sometimes these groups mean more than we can imagine to these kids, that is also a reason Summer Johnson's post, “Home Environment” is a crucial aspect to consider as a teacher. That is how a student's home life will bleed into the classroom, especially with parent involvement. Our students mean the world to us so when we see there may be something going on there is a way we can begin to observe that. Getting in touch with parents and creating that relationship is not only better for you to communicate with them, but it's better for the students. Finally I read Alexis Pellicciotti’s post, “Virtual School In Regard to The Art Classroom.” This post talked about the difficulties of Covid-19 had with having to incorporate online school into our classrooms. As a student and teacher this was a difficult season to teach fully online, and a big reason for that she focused on was relationships. It is hard building those connections in a Zoom meeting, but at least we had it because it was something for us to communicate with. The struggles of online school were evident as a student, but as a teacher it was even more difficult to teach through a screen. Overall each of these educational blog posts were very informative, even if we did not have the same subject we were teaching. There is a lot of overlap in the classroom, no matter the material being taught.

My experience with educational blogging was okay, I have always enjoyed writing and have worked with programs like these before. As any other hobby it is a time commitment, especially since this platform is made to be up to date. Having to sit down and write a post a week while I’m teaching would be quite difficult. There were also features on this particular blog site that I was not a fan of, so if I was to continue blogging it would be through another platform. Personally it was not my cup of tea but it was something new that I enjoyed getting to share my voice as a teacher.