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.