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Sunday, September 29, 2013
Twitter Reflection
The first thing that I learned from Twitter was that I was WAY out
of the loop of technology. I had no idea of all the different professional learning
communities that are out there on Twitter. I did not know all the different benefits
that Twitter had to offer such as direct messaging, chats and hashtag to keep
you connected with common topics. I was very glad to learn about TweetDeck because
with how fast people tweet, I would have missed so many great ideas if I tried
to follow everything using the layout of Twitter. I also thought it was very
cool the way you could collaborate with people all over the country in a matter
of minutes and I thought about how beneficial this was to me but especially for
a person in a smaller school district who really doesn't have anyone to plan
with.
The most interesting people (more specifically a group)
that I followed were
the people who posted items
on #edchat. I found a number of articles, poster and ideas that I have
retweeted or printed off to share during one of my professional learning communities
at school.
I think I will use Twitter more as professionally tool then
personal. I am the type of person who likes to keep my personal and
professionally stuff separated. I use Facebook as a personal tool to
communicate with friends.
Free Technology for Teachers
I discovered a number of math
resources on www.freetech4teachers.com
that I feel would benefit my students greatly, especially once they have access
to their Chromebooks. A few of the resources that I would like to take a closer
look at are:
+plus magazine at http://plus.maths.org/content/
TenMarks and Math Live would be a good resource that I could give
to students and parents as a supplement to the instruction giving during class.
But I need to check out each lesson in depth to see which ones would be most beneficial
for my students.
At my school one of our big emphasis is on nonfiction text and I
have a feeling that I could find a number of things in +plus magazine that I
could use in my classroom.
At
this point in time I do not see myself having my students create their own
blogs but I have created a blog on blogger for my classroom. The main thing I had
planned on using my blog for was collect student’s understanding of their
homework using a Google form. But now after looking at all the different resources
out there that I would like to make sure my students are aware of, I now plan
on placing links to them on my blog. Another
link that I would include along with the resources mentioned above would be Web2.0calc
(http://web2.0calc.com). This would allow
them to have a scientific calculator with them wherever they go. I know just
need to find the time to put all these ideas into action.
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