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Wow. There’s way too much here to read in one sitting. Ok, Hilary Meeler over at EduBlog Quest has been blogging with her fifth graders. Recently, her students took some time off from their own blogs to provide some feedback for some education students at Georgie State University. The fifth grade students’ blogs are fantastic and I’ve been reading them for a few weeks. However, the education students’ blogs are fascinating as well! I just spent about half an hour reading through several of their reflections about their courswork and their thoughts about the future of education.

I remember when I was a student at the University of Iowa, I had to take a single class about using technology in the classroom. The final assignment was to send and recieve email. That wasn’t exactly the challenge I was looking for so I spent most of the class teaching myself HTML. I would have loved to have had access to a tool like a blog that I could have poured forth my efforts into. Something tangible and real that I could have continued on with even after I left the university. It’s a journal and a portfolio rolled into one.

If I were a principal (and I hope to be someday), I would love to be able to look at a candidates blog and read a bit about what they deem important enough to write about. Blogs provide tremendous insight into the person who writes them. I would much rather have a potential employer visit my blog than my online resume. Though my resume may show my best side, the blog is more honest. If they don’t like what they read, then I may not be a good fit for their school. This site is me, for better or worse. It may not always be pretty, but it’s real.

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