As I have made this blog and pondered its usefulness and purpose I have been able to recognize many ways it will aid me and act as a resource in class. I am going to be a Home Ec teacher. Blogs are ideal for teaching and showing my future students interesting things I have found and want them to know or even for posting information on what we will be covering in class. I can show them pictures of the food or clothing items we will be working on or even play how-to videos I have made or found. I think this kind of interactive teaching will really help keep the kids interested as they learn. In my classes I will be teaching basic and intermediate sewing and cooking skills among other things. As I looked for websites to subscribe to I looked for websites that would help teach the basics. I found one website called Slipstiches that helps teach sewing basics. It presents information in a very clear way. I also found a website called Reluctant Gormet which gives lots of cooking basics and definitions. It even gives information on how to pursue an education in a food field. Using a RSS Feed Reader is very beneficial to me as a teacher. It helps save me time. If I subscribe to sites I am particuarly interested in and want information about the RSS feed will allow me to get the information I want quickly. I do not have to browse the web for hours. These RSS feeds are also great because they give me ideas on how to teach my students. They make me think and see things from someone else's point of view. This helps me search through the different options available to me (my own methods and results, others methods and results) in order to choose the best way to teach a subject or the best recipe/pattern to use.

I have a blog!

This is exciting!