After using Google Reader this week, a whole new world has kind of been opened for me. I can read so many ideas and thoughts at the click of a button, and it's fascinating! I now understand too how teachers can view 40+ students' blogs without having to go blog by blog, which makes it a lot easier.
I saw some very neat and in depth blogs when I looked over the classes' blogs; I saw a lot more interaction such as in Dave's and Meghan's blogs, where they post a lot of pictures and quotes and other relative material. In Meghan's blog, the use of staggered text really helps the reading aspect of the blog instead of just one paragraph. It helps the overall reading and helps the reader connect more to the material.
I think that in the future I will definitely try to post relative material so that people reading can connect more to what I am talking about- videos, links and pictures would help a lot! It looked great in my classmates blogs so I think I'll have to use that!
An idea that stood out was in 'A to Zed's' blog, where in there T2P they said students should be encouraged to take risks in the classroom. While this to the extreme can be hazardous, I believe students should be able to explore and take risks so that they can learn on their own and get out of their comfort zone so that they can really learn new material. Of course I have to be careful in an ag-ed setting because risks are everywhere, especially in hands on material, so a healthy balance of risk taking should be admitted in my classroom so no harm can occur.
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