My newly created teaching challenges by a group of fairly low functioning students has caused me to reanalyze many of my practices and is challenging me to find new ways to instruct. One way that I would like to eventually incorporate blogs is by using one as an organizational portal for myself. I often come across resources that I would like to make accessible to parents. A blog would be one feasible way to do so. (Here's the start of my classroom blog). Videos of class activities may be fun but I would have to make sure that I wasn't breaking any confidentiality laws by posting them on a blog. I know that they are permissible on our district website, but I don't know about privately hosted sites.
For our wiki assignment, I'm going to create a wiki for district special education teachers to share ideas and resources. Whether or not this idea will take off, I am unsure. We recently were granted district early release one day each week to discuss student learning and be provided with professional development. As a part of this, the district elementary resource teachers would like to be able to collaborate. A wiki would provide us with the opportunity to communicate on a more regular basis.
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I think that it's so great that you created a blog as a resource for the parents of your students. A lot of the time parents want to know what they can do at home to help their children and you just provided them with some answers. Like you, I thought that at the first grade level I wouldn't really be able to use a blog with my students, but could better use it as a tool to communicate with their parents. Good for you for getting that up and running right away!
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