C4Ta #1

For the Comment4Teachers temporary assignment I was assigned to Mrs. Becky Goerend's Live the Conversation blog. In her most recent post (Reflections on my first year as an elective teacher)she talks about her experience as an elective teacher. She loved having the chance to have such a deep relationship with students when she was an elementary teacher and did not think that she would be able to have that kind of relationship having about 300 kids go in and out of her class over a two day period. In this post she has a picture of flowers and an envelope with a letter from a student that the student gave her on the last day of school. As an elective teacher she did not realize how much of an impact and impression that she had made on the student.
It does not matter what kind of teacher you are to the students, but you will have some type of an impression and impact on students whether you realize it or not. You might be the only smile that the student will see that day and you may even be the only encouragement that the students have.

Her second most recent blog post, Thoughts on Wikipedia , talks about what she thinks about Wikipedia . She had given her class a research assignment and told them to use Wikipedia. When I was in middle school and high school teachers would always tell us that Wikipedia was not a credible source when we did research. Many younger students that I know are still being taught that you should never use Wikipedia when doing research because people can go back and change what it says in the information. There are people that work for the company that puts the information on Wikipedia that are notified when there has been a change to the information and they go back and fix it. Within minutes of someone editing the page, it is fixed back to how it was before. Mrs. Goerend says that Wikipedia can be one of the most updated sources on the internet.