Something I want to do with my blog

Being a teacher in Hong Kong is never an easy profession. You have endless marking and administrative jobs to do. On top of them you have to squeeze time for your core business - planning lessons, organizing extra-curricular activities, counselling your students and keeping parents informed of their children's performance. Very often I feel guilty of not sparing sufficient time to chat with my students. I strongly believe that person-to-person sharing or some people may call this 'mentoring' is an effective way of conducting value and moral education. After taking a few training sessions in IT in education, I was deeply impressed by what ICT (Information and communication technology) can do in levering the potenial of students and the capability of teachers in learning and teaching. 'Blog' as an asynchronous communication tool, can do teachers a favor on delivering and sharing messages of some sorts of educational value that cannot be easily fitted into our tight schedule. I am planning to use my blog to communicate with my students and share with them my views on some social issues. I like to spend my travel time on reading so I will also make use of the blog as a platform for conducting 'book talk' and hopefully this may help promote habit of reading in my classroom.