learning to...make the blog more interesting!

We are all working hard in class to learn how to upload images to our blogs. Everyone seems frustrated but I think once we get the hang of it, it will help us all get more out of using blogs. Here is a view of my igoogle page. I chose some graphics, three fun things like the national geographic picture of the day, and the NY Times headlines. As I mentioned, I added a tab for education. It has provided some good links for education news, such as NCLB and other current issues. In the future I am going to add a new tab for education research, because I am interested in sites I can use to make my teaching more effective.

Looking more at this igoogle page, I am brainstorming some more ways I can use this in the class. For example, I can use the quote of the day in the class to stimulate thinking or even for a daily writing exercise...or use the picture of the day for art or critical thinking or just class discussion. This would also be a great way to check daily news updates to use in the classroom as well as in union discussions, colleague interaction, etc. I'm sure even more ideas will come with increased familiarity and use, so that is exciting.