Wow, I think it would take until March 26 just to navigate to every blog listed on the Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs blog, let alone read them! Yes, the information available on blogs is mind boggling. (or is it "mind bloggling"?) The question is, as it is with everything on the Internet, how to separate the wheat-data from the chaff-data.
The James Logan Courier blog was really impressive, until I noticed that material was repeated on the links at the right and much of it was from years ago. Wait.....That is impressive in itself. They have been blogging since March 2006! I guess we are behind the times.
The Bud the Teacher blog was interesting, but it contains another unbelievable list of other blogs. The quote from Jaron Lanier's book caused me to wonder if I should put my name on this blog. Are we in any danger with this activity?
The Superintendent's blog looks like it is the starting point for some good discussions. Hopefully, teachers, parents, and students will have some input in the decision-making process. If there is an Adirondack chair facing the view in her picture, it would be a great place for frustrated computer users to sit and calm down.
The ETLMS blog had an entry on Wolfram-Alpha. I remembered trying it out years ago, so with great interest I checked out the iPhone app. How cool would that be, having the power of a super-computer on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Unfortunately, $50 is really expensive for an iPhone app.
What should we make of all this? A blog could be a very useful tool to facilitate communication between teachers, students, and parents. It would be best to keep it simple and to the point. In other words, do not put links to 200 other blogs on your classroom blog!
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