When I started this course, I did not know what action research was. I just assumed it was what I was thinking of as traditional research. I found out though that in action research, the results are more applicable to your individual campus because the research is done on site and in the classroom. You are evaluating your own teaching techniques, styles, approaches to motivation and classroom management. You are taking a topic, and evaluating its effectiveness in your own personalized setting, which is your classroom, school, or whatever the topic may lead to. A very important aspect of this type of research is self-reflection. One must take what he/she has learned from the project and give a true self judgement or reflection to change or tweek your style and make improvements. You must ask yourself some questions like "What went well, what can I improve on, what did not go well, how did my students react, how can I change to get the message across to my students better, etc?" The self reflection step is critical and necessary to take the information and apply the data to yourself and make changes.
Educators can use blogs in a variety of ways, but one will discuss is communication. We could create a classroom blog and communicate with parents in this way versus a newsletter, for example. The week's topics could be discussed, homework listed, dates assignments are due, etc. You could also inform parents of upcoming important dates such as assessments, holidays, special events at campus, etc. It would save time and paper of creating and printing a newsletter.
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