How Can I Use Blogs for Education? Thing 3

Reflections of Thing 3

This is a bit different for me than for the rest of my 23Things classmates. As a 'Tech' person for the school district I fix the 'tech stuff' when it doesn't work. So I need to find a different way to use a blog for education. The idea forming in the back of my head is to have a blog that helps teachers understand how to use the technology available to them in the classroom.

I got lost in cyberspace looking for existing blogs on this subject and found most of them are written by teachers. Then I found blogs that just talk about using the computer, simple basic stuff like how to use keystrokes to accomplish tasks to much more complicated things like building your own computer.

Somehow I would like to merge these two types of blogs and create something that would be helpful to computer users in WSD who are at all levels of technology expertise.

Thing 1 and Thing 2

Here it is my first blog! Setting it up was a breeze. The hardest part was deciding on a name for my blog.

I went with Jacksonjammerings because lets face it that is pretty much what it will be. Well maybe at first. Hopefully as I continue through the 23 things class I will find a direction, or maybe I'll just keep going on endlessly without really saying anything at all. The great thing about a blog is that it is my choice.

Thing 1 and Thing 2 have shown me that blogs can be anything you would like. My experience has been that they are either a place for folks to vent their frustrations or pat themselves on the back. Now that I know different I bet I will be able to find blogs that are interesting and educational to me.