Thang #3

After viewing some of the blogs on the Top 50 list, I realized that I could create a blog for my future classroom as an area to write about what projects the kids are working on and to post student work. I thought the blog could be a place where friends and family of the students plus an area for other art educators to view what is going on in my classroom. Though I would not be able to show the students in any of the photographs, the students could easily tell what artwork belonged to them to their family members. This type of blog would be especially good for areas that had a large population of military families because of the most likely distance between them and their families and hometowns. Also, I feel it is important for art, music, HHP, and other specialized areas to have communication with others like themselves because of the likelihood they will be the only teacher of their kind in that school. My blog could become an area to post suggestions on how to make projects stronger or more well-rounded, or even talk about why it would be better to avoid certain projects all together.

Creating a blog for my future classroom and even using it now for my teacher program is a way to bring insight on how I view technology and art education. I believe that it would be a very helpful tool to have in my future classroom because of its usefulness to my students, my students' relatives, and for educators like myself.