Bud the Teacher

    Recently, Clarence over at Remote Access wrote:

I posted last week on the fact that a lot of teachers are writing and keeping blogs; which is great.

I also posted about how a lot of these blogs are not about teachers
at work in their classrooms. They are not blogs where teachers reflect
on their practice and use their blog as a tool to improve their
practice.

I have received a few emails since then from people in agreement with
me. To that end, I am looking to collect a list of teacher blogs that
are reflective; spaces where teachers write about their practices, and
attempt to improve.

Anyone with the address of a blog that matches this description, can
send it to me and we can begin a list of reflective practice blogs.

Send him your links, folks.  If you fit the bill, of course.  I’d be interested to see the list that develops.

    My blogging students and I got to work today on our portfolios.  The end goal is to create a school-wide electronic portfolio system.  We’re the pilot.  Before we could get too far, we had to figure out some basics — pretty essential stuff like where we will host stuff and how we will put the portfolios together.  If you’re interested in that discussion, it’s occurring over at my classroom blog.  Please feel free to chime in. 
    We’re compiling a collection of links on how and where to  host media over on our wiki — please feel free to join us there and add to the list.  Right now, a couple of us are going to start a new blog dedicated to portfolio entries, and the rest of us are going to host stuff in multiple places and use our current blogs to link to and reflect on our entries.  We’ll see which portfolio makes the most sense when we’ve got something put together.
    I know that there’s probably a really wonderful content management system out there somewhere that would be just perfect for hosting student portfolios.  There are a couple of fine educational technologists that I’ve asked to help me out in that area.  But I don’t have any money or a server of my own — so we’re going to push forward with the free resources on the web and see how much we can accomplish. 
    I think we’re going to be just fine — I am learning about some great places to host content, and my students know lots, too.