Blog Assignment-August 27th to be posted by August 30

In your first blog post answer these questions:

Think about your experiences in high school, how do you think your past experiences may influence your expectations about high school students. What kind of high school student were you? What fears do you have about working with high school students? What do you think you will learn? What are you most excited about? Post a photo of a piece of your work.

How this will work!

Dear Fellow Bloggers,
to read the blogs of your classmates at UI and UNI hit our profile. You will see a link to blogs we follow, this will help you link up to the blogs of others and follow them.
Hope this helps,
Rachel

Blogging Do's and Don't's

Welcome to the Secondary Methods Blogosphere...
We invite you to join us on our blogging adventure. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you begin your own blog this semester.


Blogging Protocols

1) Use a pseudonym for yourself. Do not name names, especially the names of the school where you are working or the students with whom you have contact. This includes your peers.
2) Do not use foul language or language that may offend other people.
3) Do not use text abbreviations such as LOL or CUL8tr.
4) Take time to compose your writing well. Please spell check and fact check. These blogs are graded. While this is a novel way of recording your reflections on your experiences and reading, remember this is also an academic exercise.
5) Do not post photos where your identity or the identity of others is revealed.
(You can post pictures where the back of a person’s head if visible or their hand. You can also post things, but not recognizable places or people). Do not post any photographs which are incriminating.
6) When commenting on the posts of others keep an open mind, do not personally attack the views of others. If you disagree with something someone has posted feel free to engage in a discussion that provides sound reasoning to back up your point of view. Ask them to clarify what they mean in order to better understand their point of view.
7) Remember your audience for this blog is your professor and other pre-service teachers. So… be professional.
8) Please restrict your blog to posts about our reading, your experience as an artist and teacher, and your field experience. When this course is over you can expand on these themes, but for now…
9) Do not post advertisements on your blog.