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| This is a picture of when I was working on my video. |
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| This is a picture of my Twitter news feed. |
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| This is a picture of what my Pinterest feed looks like. |
#4. Ms. Kresser - This semester I started my Level 1 Field Experience for the education program at the University of Northern Iowa and I was placed in Ms. Kresser's second grade classroom. Every Monday for 10 weeks I go to the school and spend three hours with the class observing and working with the students. I have had the opportunity to experience so many new opportunities in the classroom and now have many first hand experiences. I have also made many new connections at my placement school with other teachers that I could contact someday down the road if I ever need their input or help with something I am working on in my own classroom someday. I get to work with the second graders on their assignments in class, and be involved with many other class time activities. I have enjoyed this experience very much and it has shown me that I love working with younger kids but also has made me love the profession of teaching that much more!
#5. Mrs. Eddy - For one of my classes Children's Literature we are required to do a read-aloud project where we go and read a picture book of our choosing to a class. I chose to read the book to Mrs. Eddy's second grade class. Mrs. Eddy teaches at the same school that my mother has taught at for almost thirty years. Although I know many of the teachers at this school, Mrs. Eddy is a fairly new teacher that I am able to expand my PLN with. I can learn from many of the older teachers I have known all my life growing up around this school but I can also learn from the new generation of teachers coming into the school.
#6. Classroom Bridges - While trying to come up with ideas on how to expand my PLN a girl in my class talked about the site Classroom Bridges where you can go online and connect with other teachers across the country. So I decided to give it a shot! I have always had an interest in going to New Zealand so I decided to see if there was any teachers on this site from New Zealand and lucky for me there was! So I decided to shoot her an email asking how she runs her classroom over in New Zealand and also how she works global collaboration into her own classroom. Although I did not receive a response from her I went out of my comfort zone and contacted someone I did not know. After I did not receive a response from her I decided to give it another go. Sadly I did not receive replies from the next three teachers I sent emails out to. Even though I did not get a response I still believe this site could be very effective to collaborate with other educators all over the country.
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| This is the home page of Classroom Bridges http://www.classroombridges.com/ |
#7. Symbaloo - Symbaloo is an online site where you are able to organize a personal site page that allows you to easily navigate the web through links on the homepage. On the homepage you compile your favorite internet sites for easy access. A couple of the sites I have put on my site map are Prezi, EasyBib, Blackboard and Google Drive as those four are sites I use most often. I think Symbaloo is a great tool to help keep anybody organized and have easy access to the sites they need quickly. I will definitely continue to use Symbaloo as I progress to someday become a teacher.
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| This is what my Sybmabloo page currently looks like https://www.symbalooedu.com/ |
#8. Facebook - On my own personal Facebook I follow a couple of pages made for and done my teachers. Someday I would love to be able to teach Kindergarten so I follow one particular page called "A Differentiated Kindergarten" on this page there are a lot of different fun activities that are also educational for the kids to do. Another one that I like is "A Smiling Teacher" on this page there are many videos and pictures of activities that kids are doing in their classrooms first hand. From these videos and pictures I myself being a future teacher can reflect on them and learn from possible mistakes and also take away the helpful hints from other educators. Finally the last page that I like on Facebook is "K-3 Teacher Resources" just like the name implies this page gives educators the ability to see different ways and strategies other educators are using in their classrooms that may be beneficial to other educators teaching grades K-3. Since I am majoring in Elementary Education I find all three of these different pages on Facebook to be extremely insightful but also fun. I would defiantly recommend any three of these to a K-3 teacher!
#9. Class Craft - This is a internet site for teachers where a teacher can make games to go along with assignments. This site has a game based approach to teaching and learning. The site is designed specifically to encourage students to participate, demonstrate good behavior, work on collaborating with classmates and also working on their 21st-century skills. I have made my own Class Craft and have been trying to play around on it a little from time to time. I believe that this site would be great for students who may not be as outgoing as others or need that little extra push to keep going. When I was younger I was really into playing video games on the computer so I can understand where younger kids could relate to this interactive learning tool because they are playing while learning!
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| This is my home page on Class Craft https://www.classcraft.com/ |
#10. ZoomRoom - For my last PLN connection in my Ed Tech and Design class we had the opportunity to use an online meeting room that I had never heard of before. During the beginning of the year my group was working on a group project and we were required to meet with out teacher on an online site that is free to students at the university I attend called ZoomRoom. This site is similar to Skype, but with this site you are able to meet with groups of people rather than just one person. I thought this tool was very helpful and easy to use. After my teams meeting with our teacher we ourselves used ZoomRoom several times to collaborate on group projects we were working on. I found this tool very useful and would defiantly use it in any situation where I needed to meet with a group of people and we all could not meet at the same place. ZoomRoom makes meeting with a group of people so much easier.
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| This is a picture of when my group met with our teacher to go over our group project http://tinyurl.com/yaxfdy6q |
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