I must admit that I have never read blogs, except for those of my peers in this cohort, until this week. To start with, I checked out Bill Michaels' blog at Newsradio620 website. I heard him mention it this past week and, with all of the commotion about Ned Yost's firing, I thought it might be fun to check out. His blog itself was interesting to read with excellent graphics and hyperlinks to related online articles. However, I did not see a method in which to reply/comment.
I dug deeper and checked out a hyperlink for "Message Boards." Here I found SportsBubbler.com which included 2,685 threads and 94,238 posts, just on the Brewers Message Board alone. Wow! Upon further investigation, I saw that person who posted had a profile, often an interesting username, and the number and rankings of their posts. Fascinating stuff!
I also checked out the NSBA Board Buzz blog, hyperlinked to a weekly e-mail I receive called Legal Clips from the National School Boards Association. As a business education teacher, one recent posting caught my attention. Called "Mortgage crisis emphasizes the critical role of financial literacy for today’s generation," this posting offered helpful resources for teachers, not just business educators, to use in teaching their students about spending, saving, and borrowing habits. I will search further for similar business education and financial literacy blogs, especially those that contain postings about current economic and business news.
2 comments:
Hi Jim,
It was interesting reading about some of the information you found in blogs about businesses. I was discussing my high school education and commenting on how we never learned about how to do any personal financing other than creating a checkbook and balancing it in high school. We also were given an imaginary $1000 and were told to invest it in the stock market. We were told to follow the newspaper stocks to see how our imaginary investment did. That was it. I'm sure you're teaching the students so much more than I was taught about personal financing. It's amazing what can be learned through a little more technology than what we had back in the "olden days". Keep up the good work!
Hi Jim,
Reading the blogs dealing with the "mortgage crisis" is a real life situations that your students may be facing some day. Talk about rising the LOti level. Very applicable to what's going on in the world today.
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