Sharing: The Moral Imperative

I like being able to write short, to the point statements about different topics. I don't like the fact that anyone and everyone can see what I am writing or comment on my postings. Keeping a blog can make me a more effective teacher because I can have my students make a blog and post answers to questions on it. I think kids would like being able to contact me, as a teacher, outside of class if they need to. Students seem to like the blogging idea and letting their voices be heard. I probably won't continue to post to my blog after this course is over just for the simple fact that I don't really have the time to keep up with it. I do, however, think that blogs are a good way for people to tell the world what they think. Keeping a blog has helped me to develop a new media literacy: collective intelligence. This was demonstrated when we had to do the media literacy presentation. Erin and I created "Our Trip to the Zoo" presentation. We collaboratively pooled our knowledge and compared our responses to come up with a powerpoint presentation, which I later posted to my blog. I think this is a perfect example of collective intelligence.