iPad vs. Paper

Sorry, but this proves you can't use technology everywhere!

My Class Blog Literacy Poject

Here is a link to My Class Blog on kidblog that I am using for my literacy project. Many parents had asked me what their children could be doing at home to help in their learning, so I started a class blog where I post every weekday. The students read the postings and their classmates replies and can reply back if they like. My posts usually include a video or picture that the students can watch and a question to answer. A problem I encountered was that many students wanted to read the blog but their parents were too busy to set it up for them, how sad,  or even sadder, some students don't have a computer at home. I decided to make blogging a daily center in my literacy center schedule. The center has only been up and running for a couple of days but so far it seems to be a success!

Go!Animate Class Reflection

My GoAnimate Class Review by bethjbrown15 on GoAnimate

Animation Software - Powered by GoAnimate.

I decided to try a web 2.0 tool called Go!Animate for my class reflection. It was very simple to do and fun. Look how sexy I made myself look and my colleague, not so much! Good times. I truly have enjoyed this class more than any other and am sad to see it end. But I know this will not be the end of  me using technology in my teaching. Thank you Judy for making this class so fabulous!

Bloom's Taxonomy According to Seinfield

This just cracked me so I had to share. At my school right now our problem of practice for instructional rounds is higher order questioning, so Bloom's and Webb's are swimming around in my head all the time! It also reminds me how much I enjoyed watching Seinfeld.

Forget Teaching, I Want to Work for Twitter!

This video shows why it is important for today's students to learn how to program compters. very interesting, but what caught my eye was what companies like Twitter and Facebook are doing to get the best IT employees. Check out the offices at Twitter. They have roof garden working space, free dry cleaning, band practice rooms,free food. and you're allowed to skateboard in the office. Makes me want to learn how to code!

Hot Diigoy Dog!

Ok, so can my blog titles get any worse?! Here is a link to my Diigo library.

Want More Blog Followers?

I found this article on edudemic.com called 30 Ways to Promote Your Blog. It has some great ideas if you seriously want to continue blogging.