Wow! What a lot of information in these two chapters. As I was reading the first chapter, I was thinking about how important it is for teachers to learn and experience things on the web to be able to teach students how to do it. I am very interested in technology and making technology a bigger part of my teaching. I spend lots of time on the computer looking for ways to make myself a better teacher. Incorporating blogging into the classroom is a whole different thing for me. I am definitely going to have to play around with this before introducing it to a classroom of second graders.

The whole time I was reading the second chapter I kept thinking about ways I could incorporate a blog into my life as an educator. I currently have a teacher website. It is through our school and is dependent on things working on that end. In the last 6 months, my site hasn't been accessible probably 2 of those months. That is not acceptable when you are encouraging your students to go to the site. Not acceptable as a way of communicating information to parents either. A blog would not be dependent on the school network. Troubleshooting might be much easier and faster. (I'm sure would be easier and fastser!)