Reflection 2

So far I do not feel that I would ever use a blog or RSS Reader personally.  I feel that my life is pretty busy at the moment and it is just another “thing” to check like personal email, work email, Facebook and so on that takes more time away from my family.  Watching the news on TV is enough for me. I just don’t see myself getting into either one.   In the education setting, as a physical education teacher….Not quite sure.  Maybe I could use the RSS reader to subscribe to health/fitness sites.  I just feel that I am a very bust person and constantly going to meetings after school, it would be hard to find the time to sit down and blog or use RSS reader.   I was surprised, but it was actually a little confusing for me to set them up.  I’ve been out of the technology loop and just got an iphone this summer and that took some getting used to. 

Setting up a blog and RSS reader is my first and only experience with the two.  It is hard for me to place them anywhere specifically on Dales Cone because I am unsure what all they can do.  From what I understand about the blog, you can write down your thoughts (visual symbols category), post pictures (Exhibits or still pictures category), videos (television and motion picture category) and even recordings(radio/recordings category).  I feel that it fits into many different categories.  To me it fits best in the Verbal Symbols category.  In the reading it mentioned that this category is “the common ground for every person who can talk and listen.”  People post their thoughts and others read and respond.  I feel that it fits anywhere from exhibits on up to the top of the cone.  I feel that the RSS reader also fits anywhere from exhibits on up.  To me it pretty much can do what a blog does.  It publishes what people put on their blogs and other sites which include items that people read, watch and listen to. 

I work with students with special needs and teach physical skills which include a lot of modeling.  I don’t think a blog or RSS would help me with any on this.  I don’t think there is any problem that needs to be fixed here.  The best way for the students that I work with to learn is by my demonstrations and giving corrective feedback.  Maybe I’m not thinking hard enough, I just don’t see where a blog or RSS would be helpful in this situation.  If you have any ideas let me know!  I am having a very difficult time coming up with an “imaginative” educational use of each tool that my students could use. …..