I would like to integrate a blog into my classroom. The purpose of the blog is to have a place where the students can view, comment and reply to others about their content area. I'd like to share some things I have experienced since I began the virtual classes at my school. The students are excited about being able to do their coursework on the computers. I have exhausted myself monitoring each student to stay on track. Some of my students began to drift away from the curriculum and began to navigate to other websites. This has become very annoying. I did a survey with my students about blogging. Like myself they were unfamiliar about how to get started. I mentioned to my students that Facebook, My Space, Twitter are blogs. I want to learn how to use the blog correctly before I assign students to create a blog. I think they would enjoy interacting with others about their content. I also think that it would cut down on students drifting away from their content navigating to other sites. I think it can enhance the lesson because they are reading comments from their peers.

Using technology in the classroom seem to motivate students to actively engage in the curriculum. This generation of students are technologically advanced. The early exposure to cyberspace has produced, in my opinion a generation of students that are competent in this environment. After teaching in a traditional environment for the past eleven years, I obtained a teaching position at a virtual school. I was excited to begin the new school year in a new environment. I had very little training with the program. I'm learning day-to-day and feeling more competetent with my instruction.