Blog Reflection

Through out the course of this semester I have tried to be diligent and write on my blog at least once a week but sometimes that didn’t happen. I really didn’t get much use out of this blog except for something I had to try to update once a week. I suppose if more people may have read it then I could have gotten more feedback but that didn’t happen. I felt that if I had a problem with my class I received better information by going to one of the administrators at my school or to a teacher who has been teaching for multiple years to seek advice rather than write about it. Maybe I didn’t completely understand what the blog was meant for but it was just hard for me to put a lot of time that I didn’t have into something that I didn’t get anything out of. Was it supposed to be something where I can keep a diary of my class and get out some of my emotions? If that’s the case well then I’m just not the type of person who likes to spill my guts to a bunch of other people.
However, I do believe a blog would be helpful it if was set up for my class or my athletic team. If I set up for students and parents and posted dates of assignments and tests along with reminders then that could be very useful. Also with athletics I could put up the weekly schedule along with other useful information. One example for that is when we went to Shiloh Christian High School in the playoffs this year. Shiloh Christian is in Springdale Arkansas which is a nice long trip from McGehee. A lot of parents kept calling up to the school wanting to know the schedule for the trip. If our head coach had a blog he could have posting that on his blog so the parents could just go on there and print it out. Also, another idea I had was for summer workouts where I could post everything about the workouts that we will be doing so that parents can see exactly what their kids will be doing. Kids also wouldn’t have an excuse to miss anything because I would have it posted on my blog were it was available for everyone to see. And then kids could trick their parents into thinking they didn’t have anything when they actually did.
I believe that a blog done in the right context would be very useful and helpful to any teacher. Even though I don’t think I got a lot out of this blog I do believe it gave me some ideas for a future blog. So maybe in the end the blog turned out to be useful.