Review a blog that you feel may be useful in your teaching

 

 

The Autismtank blog provides useful insight into teaching children and young people with Autism. Hailey Deloya (author of the blog) utilises her professional knowledge and experience gained through her teaching,  to share what has worked well or not so well, during her lessons.

The blog is kept up-to-date, and this helps when looking for advice on dealing with particular events/holidays during the year, which can often cause those with Autism extra anxiety.

For example there is a post discussing how best to plan a school Halloween party, it outlines a lesson plan and how best to work with Autistic individuals to achieve the aims and objectives of the lesson. 

The style and structure of the blog is very simple, with the emphasis concentrated on the blog content. Even though I teach in the adult sector, I come into contact with many families who have school age children and I am often asked my opinion on what is, in my experience, the best form of education for them ie. mainstream, resource base, home schooling  etc.  However, as the Autistic Spectrum is so wide and encompasses so many, these are not simple questions to answer and advice will vary according to a child’s specific needs and personality.  Hence blogs like  Autism Tank, which are written by a teacher with wide autism experience in a simple, straight forward and user friendly manner are invaluable resources.   



A couple of hours of exploring!

A very interesting couple of hours trying to work out how to set up and add everyone to my Blog.  Slowly, and with a little frustration at times, I have managed to find my way round Blogger.  Plenty still to learn over the coming weeks.
A quick picture quiz (to see if I can add a picture into the text ), where in the world is this picture taken?

 

A clue , it is the Lady Liz .  If you get it I will buy you a coffee on Monday.

What an interesting session. I have used the google search engine to set up the blog. The search engine had to be changed to FireFox, I have never used this search engine before. Initially this proved troublesome, in the end the navigation and use of the search engine proved to be straight forward. Within the design of the Blog, utilizing pictures and video clips will help make the blog interactive utilizing Flcikr and you tube. This maybe a challenge at first, however I am confident it will develop my IT skills and make the Blog interactive and enhance the learning. Placing highlighted links into the blog content will help readers discover additional information.

The journey begins 2!

Welcome to my first ever blog. It is going to be a very interesting journey into the unknown,  I will try to discover how best  to develop the blog, and create a Blog  people will like to read. Trying to navigate around the blog is difficult, however in time I am sure I will grow in confidence and build on these very modest beginnings. One small step for Murph, the journey has begun!