DIY Professional Development for Lifelong Learners Like You – Part 1: Blogs
You don’t need to wait for the next staff meeting. Blogs are great sources for your own self-guided professional development.
1st – You’ll need a free Google account.
2nd – You’ll need to activate Google Reader
3rd- You’ll need to subscribe to some good blogs, just click on the big red Subscribe button in Google Reader. You could type in (copy/paste) any of the following blog titles to get you started. Or search Google for blogs that pertain to subjects you’re interested in.
All About Comprehension
A Year of Reading
Lit for Kids
Mother Reader
Two Writing Teachers
Catching Readers Before They Fall
Weblogg-ed
The Teaching Palette
4th- Read some blogs for awhile, check out the blogrolls of the blogs you like, try subscribing to some of those.
5th – Don’t like a blog after awhile, unsubscribe
6th- You may want to use a management service like Reeder. I use Reeder so that I can easily keep up with my favorite blogs like “Making Connections with Room 209” and “Fisher’s Landing Elementary Room 208” from my iPad, iPhone or computer.
Enjoy.
“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.” – Oliver Wendall Holmes