Week 3

Blogging is a great way to connect teachers and faculty. Since I teach seventh grade art, I see each and every seventh grader throughout the year. Seventh graders are given the opportunity to experience Art, Communications and Wood shop. There are three teams within this grade level that are composed of about 250 students and 6-8 teachers. My year is divided into three twelve week sessions. During each session, I see a group of students from each team. At the end of the day, teachers spend about thirty minutes as a team, planning, scheduling and reflecting. Since my day consists of seeing students from each of all three teams, I divide my time between three team teacher meetings. It can get confusing! Blogging would provide a useful tool in posting daily occurrences, activities, schedule changes, and other information. It would provide an easy, convenient link that could be shared by not only team members but other teams, teachers from other grade levels as well as the librarian, gym teachers, and yearbook staff...just to name a few. Blogging also has more "personality" than e-mail and I believe contributions such as discussion, helpful input, visuals, etc seem encouraged.