C4T #3 Summary Post

The third teacher’s blog that I was assigned to this semester was Lee Kolbert’s A GeekyMomma’s Blog. In her post Are You a Good Teacher, she asks what defines a good teacher. Since I do not have any experience in teaching, I do not know first had at what a good teacher is. From a student’s perspective, I believe that a good teacher is someone that can keep a class engaged and wanting to learn more. Other ways to define a good teacher would be their attitude and teaching styles.

In her second post Meetings: Who Owns The Problem? she tells of her concerns regarding meetings. When reading her post, I was amazed at how many distractions there are in meetings. Texting, grading papers, and laptops are just a few of the problems that were addressed in her post. In my opinion, people should not be doing any of those things during a meeting. It is very rude towards the person or people running the meeting. Ms. Kolbert mentions a post written by Chris Brogan. The ideas that were brought up in this post were interesting. Brogan mentions to schedule for brevity, keep agendas taut, and to table anything that doesn’t fit the format. These ideas allow for meetings to flow better and to make them not as bad as they could possibly be. It is better to keep to a schedule tight, not add irrelevant information to the meeting, and mention the purpose of the meeting beforehand.