Two more for the blog roll

He's smiling cause He's cutting your funding.

I have found two more blogs to add to my blog roll.  I felt the need to add blogs that included all my my interests in one.  I didn't find any that could do that but, I did find some that included several of my interest.  One Example is Politics K-12.  This blog takes modern politics and focuses on how they affect kids in the classroom, hence k-12.  In the article Obama Warns of Ed. Cuts, Touts Vision on K-12 the blog describes President Obama's plan for the educational future of our country. As a Secondary Social studies major(with a minor in political science) I find this blog to combine a fair amount of politics and how they affect the educational setting.  I will be continuing to follow this blog as I graduate and become a professional as it will show insite as to how policy makers affect my job.  The second blog also combines two of my great passions, being a huge closet nerd, and being a huge closet nerd.  This blog is called GeekAlerts.  This blog informs the reader about up coming technological advancements.  I feel that it is important to keep up with technology because it will help me each in the future.

The video below is of a well respected English literature professor.  He explains the positives of using technology in the classroom.  Be warned he is British.

Blog Name

The real question I have right now is if the name for my blog is appropriate.  I named it after The giant statue of a high-land warrior on my college campus affectionatly name Angus.  Let me know if it works for you!

My beliefs about technology and learning!

As I approached this class I assumed I would be working more with computers and smartboards.  I had this false sense of knowing for two reasons.  One my high school had those laptops and smartboards so I assumed that is where technology in the class stopped.  Two, I didn't read the class description which I am sure shed more light into this class.  Now that I am in this class I find that we are to use blogs and twitter to enhance my education.  I personally have one blog already but, I use that as a way to anonimouisly berate politicians and until this point have refused to even consider using Twitter.  So I approach these ideas with optimistic caution.  I had one teacher who tried to use a blog in my high school English class, he failed miserably.  To his credit he tried and for the first month he did very well but, we as a class could not grasp the idea of it.  So with a mask of confidence I will leap into the ocean of ideas that this class offers.  Though I truthfully would rather wade in wearing water wings.