At The Teachers Desk

At The Teachers Desk is a blog space that can be helpful to teachers. It is a site that teachers blog and leave comments. I read several posts that can be helpful to a teacher.

The first post was how to get and keep more visitors on your site. It is very true that the longer you post the more views you are going to get. When you keep your blog address the same people who are familiar with you know how to find you. Posting regularly often will add more interest to viewers. Viewers do not want to search for your blog and it be the same post every time. So keeping it current will aid in attracting more viewers. When you make the title of your post what people search for in google you are more likely to receive views. When the search engine pulls it up of course people are going to click on it. Also, leaving comments on other people's blogs will get you more viewers. When people read your comments they are going to be more likely to view your blog and check it out.

After reading through other posts I realized that the site was about teachers communicating with teachers. Sharing ideas and interests, asking for suggestions, and showing examples on how technology can be helpful. Teachers need to be social networking experts. Having a social network is like having help on call. When a question is typed in people respond as soon as possible. Teachers need to be experts in creating paths from learners to knowledge. The ability to make connections with people through blogging, commenting on blogs, and twitter.

In today's society the digital portfolio kids are creating on the internet is a negative one. Children are posting the bad things that happen to them from day to day. This relays a message that young people are violent, aggressive, and dangerous. It is creating a negative stereotype that kids do not need to be linked to. For example, on facebook the digital trails students create come back to haunt them. They post comments such as getting drunk and what they got into last night. Students need to be able to create personal spaces that show their learning and themselves. A space that can be found by future employers and colleges or universities.

Post were also available that offered encouragement in using webcam. It pretty much stated if the students are asked to do it, then the teachers need to be able to as well. Teachers need to be able to get over the dislikes, fears, and phobias of being in front of the camera. The last post that I got into was if the students should be learning technology in the way that they are. Learning about blogs, to create media, and contacting people around the world is important in society. Technology plays a big role in the future. However, I do not think technology should replace books and traditional learning all together.