How to use our Blogs in CEdO 520

Originally, we were supposed to use our blogs to discuss what we have learned and how it would be able to effect our personal and professional lives. During the discussion at the end of class, the idea was brought up that we answer the same question over and over again. To some it seemed somewhat redundant and to some it seemed a difficult chore when the class did not offer anything immediately applicable to their life (either personal or professional). So, our first assignment in our blog is to come up with ways we would be able to use it effectively. Below is a list of some of my ideas:

•   Use the blog to discuss the pros and cons of specific uses of technology.
• Make us take a stand on an issue regarding technology and education.  We would need to then support our ideas.
• Use the blog to give feedback about the work we do.  Explain how we feel it could either be improved or what we appreciated and learned from the assignments.  If we don't have opinions on the assignments we are given, are they really having an impact?
• Have us attempt to write through the experience of a student who is watching their teacher going through the process of implementing technology in our classroom.  It could be as short as a diary entry. 

Those are the ideas I came up with.  I hope that some others find then useful.