Week #5 Post: Blog for Educators (Required)

Following the links under "Blogs for Educators" on the Class Blog, I explored an excellent blog today, Edutopia.org. It's a blog site for educators to post and get advice for ideas that work in public education. Not only are there recent blog posts on the main page, but there are also links to core concepts, videos, specific blogs, groups, a magazine, and special reports. Within the core concepts heading, there are ideas for comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, project learning, social and emotional learning, teacher development, and technology integration. Edutopia.org seems like a very helpful blog site for educators who are wanting to see what other educators are doing in their everyday classrooms. Not only is this helpful for seeing what else is out there, but teachers may also be encouraged to see that other teachers are dealing with some of the same problems, etc. which they are dealing with. Teachers who want to post on this blog can create an account with the network and then easily sign in anytime they wish to visit or interact with the site. As a result of finding this blog, I know that I will want to be a member of either this blog or a similar blog when I become a full-time teacher in order to gain ideas and support from a network of people in my same career.