My sleepy little cow. Moo!

Zachary and I

Colton - 4 months old 

Just thought I would share some photos of my mini-family. They make my heart swell!

Mug

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I made these fun mugs on Shutterfly for my husband-to-be and our Dad's for Fathers Day! They had a promotion when I was checking out online that stated if you posted your custom order on your blog, they would give you a discount code for your next purchase. Since I use Shutterfly for a lot of things, I jumped on it and thought it would be a great way to try experimenting with my blog!

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/

I chose to follow this blog because it addressed a lot of issues in education that are important to me. It discusses standardized testing, historical events and how they affected our education system, and other topics that directly relate me as a (future) teacher. 

 

 

I also checked out a few others, I have listed them below.

http://ssedro.blogspot.com/  - "Adventures in Educational Blogging"
This is a great online resource for future teachers as it pertains to all sorts of important information regarding technology for students. The author of the blog talks about everything from teaching tools she uses to twitter, podcasts, professional development, and how to incorporate blogs into the classroom curriculum.

http://learningcurves.blogspot.com/ - "Learning Curves"
This lady is hilarious. So far what I have read in her blog has shown to be useless to me in the ways of the blogging and internet world. I'm not sure that she will really offer anything that I can use in my classroom with elementary students but I think she can provide good insight into the new technology that is evolving. I also think she shines some light on the funnier side of technology with which frustration comes hand in hand.

http://teachersteachingteachers.org/ - "Teachers Teaching Teachers"
This site connects teachers from around the world. Many of the teachers have connected via the web and through workshops they have attended at various locations. Although it does address technology in the education world it also addresses other worldly situations such as the natural disasters which have been occurring throughout our world.

http://elemenous.typepad.com/weblog/ - "High Techpectations"

The last blog I chose to look at, High Techpectations, has so many different topics on the site that I cannot even begin to mention them. They address literally everything you can imagine. One thing I noticed that was different from other blogs was that they addressed everything under the sun, including You Tube, which I had not seen anyone mention before.

What I found most interesting after searching for educational blogs is the overwhelming amount of them that are available. There are thousands of educational blogs, all filled with great ideas and advice for the classroom. You can find many that are categorized into various subject matters and there is literally no subject that has gone un-blogged! This will be a great resource once I am teaching and the best thing about it is that blogs are constantly being updated and new ones are created so the information is continually getting better and more effective. Some of the blogs I chose to look at were not directly "educational" as far as how to teach technology. Rather they addressed issues that technology creates, worldly issues, and some of them even found humor in the challenges we face when working with technology.