Welcome to all Ed460 students! Over the next four weeks, you will be asked to "blog" about your reactions to various topics, speakers, and presentations. It's really quite easy! You will access this class blog, comment on each topic, read your classmates' reactions, and then respond to at least three of them. But don't feel you have to limit yourself! You can blog over and over again, responding to as many comments as you like. The purpose is to have a worthwhile, thought-provoking online discussion on the many aspects of the personal and social well being of your future students. I think you'll enjoy this and hopefully, you can use blogging in your future classes to involve your students in a non-traditional way of group discussing. Or maybe, as one of my former students is doing, create a blog for your group of student teachers so you can stay in touch and support each other! When you go on the class blog, let me know if you can find your way around, or if you need more instruction. We'll talk more about blogging when the first day of class rolls around.
Oh, btw, this IS part of your grade for the course. So blog very well! :)
ED460 Personal and Social Well Being is a course taken by college students in education during their student teaching semester. Topics covered include: poverty, child abuse, bullying, drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, counselors' role in school, adolescents and choices, and the use of technology.
