Blog Entry #2: Joining Online Professional Communities

I have decided to join a few online communities for educators to further my professional development as I (hope to be) entering the professional world soon after graduation in May! I have found many communities which appear to be very supportive and inclusive. I have selected a few of these where teachers are sharing ideas and resources about how to incorporate educational technology into their classrooms and are also sharing their experiences of how they were successful in doing so.

Blog Entry #1: Media Critique

As educators, we must always be aware of the messages that we are intending to convey and how our students may view and interpret both the intended and unintentional messages that we send and thereby internalize both.  Through the lens of viewing media as a source of both the creation and consumption of messages we can learn more about how to thoughtfully craft our messages by examining the output of a media message.  Through the process of considering the original intention behind the message that has been conveyed, we can consider the intention of those who created the artifact and the message they were attempting to convey.