Field Experience

1. Blogging Help- Day One

2. A teacher in Chattanooga, also a family member, has been wanting to start a blog for some time and asked for some help creating her blog and using video, audio and calendar technologies to make her blog more interactive. Over two days, we created her blog. Day one, we decided on a blogging software, design, and added the pages necessary for her blog.

3. The TF standards/elements met by the Field Experience: TF-III.c, TF-V.b

4. Summer 2011

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6. A description of the population involved:

• Race/Ethnicity: White

• Subgroups: Teacher

• Role/Grade Level of Faculty/Staff, Grade Levels of P-12 Students: Third Grade Teacher

7. Reflection

What did you learn about technology facilitation and leadership from completing this

field experience? I always say that I use all my patience with my students that I never have quite enough for adults. However, I impressed myself with the level of patience I had when teaching another adult how to create a blog. Especially when that person is a family member! I resisted the urge to take over and do it myself, and let the teacher do it herself with my guidance. It can be easier for me to just do it for her, and when I help teachers at my school I often find myself doing it myself because it's faster and we have so much on our plates. However, they don't learn anything if I do it for them. So what I've really learned, is although I may run out of patience, it is not beneficial for anyone if I just do it for them, and not let them explore and learn by doing. We got a lot accomplished on this first day! She is looking forward to showing her new blog off when the new school year begins!

8. Describe how this field experience impacted student learning.:A teacher blog is so important. It keeps the parents up to date with what their students are learning, but it can also be a place where students can publish their work, and feel proud of it. The students can also use the teacher blog to get access to homework, lessons, and links that they might have done in the classroom. The teacher blog will be the students "go to" website during the school year, so they will continue their learning outside of the school building.