The three blogs that I have selected are as follows: http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/,
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/
as well as http://theorganizedclassroomblog.com.
These three blogs are truly monumental when it comes to exploring the many
benefits of how to properly educate your students. They all hold really
insightful sources of information.
Blogs
1. Lisa Nielsen’s “The
Innovative Educator “is a blog that seemingly explores and lists effective learning
strategies on teaching students the aspects of using social media. More succinctly,
it talks about how to implement social media into the classroom. I thought that
this blog sort of mirrored what we talked about earlier in the semester about
adults getting on board with social media, and more specifically teaching the
educators proper ways to use the technology.
2. I also chose the MindShift blog http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift
because it adapts fun ways on how to teach students to learn strategies like
math, reading and other subjects. For
instance, one of their most recent blogs talked about how guessing games helps
students to solve math problems. I
thought to myself…what a unique way of learning. Check out more on that post
here: http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/02/how-guessing-games-help-kids-solve-math-problems/
3. The Organized Classroom is an interactive blog where
educators gather to share their classroom experiences, and how to make the
classroom environment stronger. They list things from Assessing Student
Understanding, to Promoting Questions in the Classroom, and Ideas on How to Use
a Math Menu. If you wondering what a “Math
Menu” is here is what the blog list as their definition: “It’s a list of
choices that students can choose from when they finish their work. (A “menu” of
math games and activities.) http://theorganizedclassroomblog.com
Twitter
@ justintarte – Dr. Justin Tarte is
a Director of Curriculum & Support Services
@ Randi Weingarten - American Federation of Teachers president
@ drvickip Vicki Phillips - Former teacher, superintendent, secretary of education, and now Director of Education - College Ready at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Child & Family Therapist/MH
consultant. Helping parents, teachers and administrators. Founder of http://kidlutions.com . Co-author of Bloom.
Steve Mesler
President & CEO @ClassroomChamps,
TED-Ed Educator, Speaker, 3xOlympian & Gold Medalist, writer, Gator. #Calgary
http://classroomchampions.org
http://about.me/stevemesler
Reflection
This semester definitely getting more acclimated to blogging
and the RSS reader has been what I’ve been working on. I did explore Twitter
for a brief period of time but then I digressed on my usage. So, now it’s
really interesting to immerse myself back onto the platform. Besides Twitter,
blogging has been extremely helpful in correlating information that we talk
about here on our personal blogs and learning about even suitable information
on outside forums and blogs.
Good evening Damon. Several of your choices sound interesting so I am defenitley going to check them out. As far as your reflection, I have never been a Twitter person. I may be too old to have gotten into it when it started but I find myself having difficulty understanding the "hash tags" concept. Is it an email address? Is it a persons weight? I don't know. I do however, understand about taking yourself away from an application and then going back again and that energized feeling you have. I am trying to get more acclumated to Twitter but I am having a rough time. I do agree that the blogs are comming in handy. I have never blogged before this course but I am slowly getting the hang of it.
ReplyDeleteThank you Matt. Trust me you're never too old. lol So, don't think of it this way. Think more of it as if you're just acclimating yourself to a new program. Hashtags can be rootly anything that mark or reflect something of importance that you might be talking about. For instance, with the Twitter session that Ellen had at the Oscars last week where her #selfie crashed Twitter. Which was epic by the way! Case in point, I used hashtag #selfie when talking about the photograph here. So hashtags may be anything of interest to you. Therefore, if you were talking about apples in a post and explaining how good it taste, you might use hashtag #apples in this form.
DeleteI hope that better helps your understanding of the subject. :)