I’ve decided that throughout this year, I will post some challenges to my readers.  They’ll be challenges that should help you grow as an education professional in the area of technology.  The difficulty levels will vary in these challenges, but if you need help accomplishing any of them, I’ll be glad to work with you in person or in a small group in your building to accomplish it.

The first challenge is find 2 – 5 professional blogs to follow, and to schedule time in your work week to skim through them regularly.  Once you’ve found the blogs you’d like to follow, the skimming should only take 15 – 20 minutes a week.

You’ll find that reading others’ ideas and reflections will energize you as a teacher, and help your own professional attitude and creativity.  Choose the first blogs carefully.  Find someone who seems to have a similar teaching assignment either in subject matter or grade level.  Read through a few of their posts to see if their sense of humor, attitude, and writing style seem like you’d enjoy reading them on a regular basis.

To get started here are links to two great lists of educational blogs, one organized by subject matter and one organized by grade-level.  Once you find a blog you enjoy…also skim the front page for blogs that the writer recommends.

List of Subject Specific Blogs

List of Grade-Level Specific Blogs

For now, bookmark or save the blog to your favorites.  Challenge #2 will involve a way to organize the blogs you like to follow into a simple to use format.

If you take my challenge, post a comment telling how it goes…I’ll provide a small reward to the first 5 USD 113 Prairie Hills employees who comment!