At The Teacher's Desk is Super-helpful!

At the Teacher's Desk is a collaborative professional blog that teachers use to share their ideas, accomplishments, solutions, questions, and so much more. It's a place that teachers can use to bounce stuff off each other or to tell the world about something exciting they've added to their technological regimen. There are links to just about everything digital or technical on the Web that you might want to reference for yourself after reading one of their blogs. You can access a variety of blog pages, see pictures, and view videos of what these teachers and their students are doing. For the technological classroom, a blog like this one is like hitting pay dirt.

I read a selection of blog posts including It is Time to Stop Looking at my Classroom and Start Looking at the School Community, How Do I Know I am Not Just Being Selfish, and Robert Burns Haunts Me by William Chamberland. I also read Using Technology for Effective Communication by Jarrod Lamshed and Pencils and Crayons to be Banned in Schools by teachernz. Mr. Chamberland wrote in his blogs about moving his encouragement of technological use and teaching to a broader audience than just his classroom, being concerned that he may be forcing his love of technology onto those not ready for it, and how the loss of electricity has very real consequences for a technology-imbued class. Jarrod Lamshed gave tips for integrating Facebook, twitter, and even his own personal cell phone number into communications with his student's parents. I liked the tongue-in-cheek attitude of teachernz's Pencils and Crayons piece. The variety of the blogs at this site are interesting and helpful, especially for a teacher very interested in using the various techniques in his or her own classroom.