Blog Reviews

Woven Ideas and Practices:

This blog has a wonderful layout, with a nice wide format that shows off the colorful and well-chosen photos. I had a lot of trouble with the skinnier blog format that I chose, as well as the arrangement of my photos, and if I do another blog I would like it to be more like this one. I also like how each post is broken up into the explain/extend/evaluate categories. Misty does a great job of making her blog personal, informative, and concise. I enjoy the fact that she doesn’t spend a great deal of time re-wording information from the Explore Alaska blog, and instead builds on knowledge gained from there and adds in her own thoughts.

Dan's AK Connections:

I chose Dan’s blog to review because of my ties to Southeast Alaska, as well as the interesting content and conversational nature. He always includes great photos and ties the information back to the education of his 5^th grade students. I appreciate how he always includes some stories and information from Southeast, which helps to personalize the information and make it relevant. The student generated learning center for Earth Day is an excellent idea. This seems like a great way to make age appropriate information on global warming accessible to the other grade school students in the school.