Reflective Blog #1

Math Video Blog

http://www.math-videos-online.com/free-math-videos-online-blog.html

This is an amazing blog! It has great online math games and videos. Some videos will walk you step-by-step on how to work an algebra or geometry problems. There are useful technique videos educators can use with their students. The blog is easy to read. Well picked colors and graphics. It doesn’t have too many gadgets that take your attention away from the main idea of the blog. There’s plenty of links that are amazing. It has a lot information educators and students can use when struggling with any type of math. I would highly recommend it to educators, parents, and students.

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Mrs . Patterson’s Pack – 1^stGrade and Blogging! How Great is that?

http://mrspatterson.edublogs.org/

I love this Blog!! Mrs. Patterson is a 1^st grade teacher in Virginia who loves teaching children to read and working with technology. If you look at her blog and check her wikispace, you can really tell she loves technology. It’s a very informative blog site for parents and educational for students. This blog was easy to navigate. It’s not too busy. I really enjoyed the graphics and fonts. I recommend it to other educators and parents who have young ones at home. There’s a lot of educational information young ones can look at such as: Kid’s Corner videos, math, grammar, and the word wall all under “my wikispace” and learn something.

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Paul Bogush -8^th Grade Social Studies Teacher

http://blogush.edublogs.org/

This blog was created by Paul Bogush. He is an 8^th grade social studies teacher who talks about how technology and blogging has changed his life. I thought this blog had too much information and too many gadgets. It didn’t have enough colors. I lost interest after a while because it was too long and there was no change in font, color, or size. It had a basic tool bar in which I was not interested. I would not recommend this blog to anyone.
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Megan’s Blog Desk

http://megansblogdesk.blogspot.com/

This blog was created by M. Ells Perry. In her blog she talks about what a blog is, what they can be used for, and how easy it is to start a classroom blog. I like how it is well organized and the choice of colors. I think she has a great choice of font, graphic, and colors for her title, it’s catchy! She has plenty of gadgets. Those gadgets are of perfect size and caught my attention to read the information around it. It is an easy to follow blog, not busy at all. I like the many links to blogs she has available on the side bar. They’re very informative. It’s a great resource for teachers, administrators, and librarians to get started and creating a blog. Definitely recommend it to these educators.
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From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning

http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/

This blog is a conversation about integrating student cell phones into classroom curricula. Liz Kolb’s intention for creating this blog is for educators and integrating student’s own cell phones into classroom learning. How is that going to happen? I would love to find out and see it happen! Even though the blog has no color but black, which I did not like at all, it has a lot of good information for educators. It has plenty of gadgets in which each have a brief paragraph next to each one giving explanations and details of the topic. It looks busy, not as far as color, but as in too much information posted. I would recommend this blog to educators.