Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Blog #6- Brainstorming, Blogging, Bon Voyage

CSLP blogging has been beneficial. Sharing experiences provided grounds for further understanding of the current DCPS system. Even though reading about a problem in a school such as leaky plumbing or lack of supplies in the paper or in class was surprising to me, it seemed distant. However, communicating with a professor, teacher, or an administrator, hearing them tell me about what they are experiencing, brought the urgency of the problems closer to me. This blog allowed me to relay the information and hopefully bring the issue or a different aspect of the problem to another classmate.

To me, the blog is a virtual document. I hope one will stumble upon this Web site in a few years or even a decade and view it as beneficial. Personally, the blog was helpful in brainstorming ideas. Specifically, the fourth prompt jolted some of my experiences at these schools, which would be helpful in my evaluation of the school. In the first essay, however, I found the charter school I worked at was only useful in comparing experiences at public schools. Since the essay focused only on DCPS, it was difficult to marry the two types of schools together equally. Overall, this was a new experience that will always have a place in my mind.

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