Moral Imperative

Keeping a blog for this course definitly made turning in homework easier. I never have to sharpen my pencil. Not to mention loosing assignments on paper. This blogging helps me stay a little more organized. My only problem with blogging is keeping my modem running, which has been a pain in my back. I think using blogger would help me with teaching by keeping track of work. It would be very hard for a student to tell me that they lost their homework assignment if I place the activity on blogger. Yes, I will continue to use the gmail blogger, but I have to get more involved in computer literacy. It is difficult for me to use the computer sometimes. Teachers must develop 21 century skills if we want to keep our heads out of the water. First of all, I had no idea that I was developing media literacy skills by doing these assignments. I just figured I was out of place because everyone else has been doing this for a while. I just started. I still don't have a facebook or myspace. A new media literacy skill I have seen concrete evidence in is through our Edmodo assigments. This literacy skill would be collective intelligence. I read the unfinished story segments and I would help expand the thoughts of my Edmodo partner named Trinton. We wrote back and forth new ideas for his story about dragons, a knight, and princes. Our common goal was to create a photo story using the final draft he and I put together. The photo story came out really well. I hope that Trinton can practice this skill just as I used my for my project. As for me I need to keep practicing using all four of those media literacy skills. To improve the way I teach.