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Educational blogging provides many different ideas from individuals with different experiences. Due to this, I have read three blogs from one of my co-students, Audrey Seeber. Her blog on counselors' importance in the classroom brought about some information I had never thought about. I know that many Deaf students often have mental disabilities, making them Deaf Disabled, which causes outbursts more likely to happen. This makes counselors such an important role, as Audrey says because they are an extra set of eyes, ears, and hands to help students through issues. The next post I read by Audrey discussed hearing age, something that many mainstream teachers with Hoh or Deaf students don't know about. She really brings to light how important hearing age is and how because a student may not have the same amount of exposure to language they may be behind academically. The final post that I read from Audrey discussed the importance of physical layout in the classroom. I loved how she included the fact that for every 6 ft a student is away from the teacher, 6 dB of sound is lost. Overall, I thought that Audrey did an amazing job in her blog, and is definitely worth reading.
Now, I had never blogged before beginning my Educational Technology class at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. This has been a good experience for me to see a new way of communicating information on a large scale. However, I am unsure if this would be something that I would include in my day-to-day life as a professional teacher. While enjoyable, I believe that blogging would not be something my students would be interested in reading or doing. If I were to include a blogging assignment in my future classroom, it would likely be a written blog or one placed on Canvas discussions, not on a formal website such as this. In terms of giving out information about my future classroom, I plan to implement the app Class Dojo so as to be able to easily communicate with parents and send them pictures and videos of their students' work and inclusion. Therefore, this will likely be my last post on blogger and my last attempt at blogging. Thank you so much for reading my posts and I can't wait to see what my life as a teacher will hold.