Technology in Schools

("School's" should be read as "schools")

I have had many experiences in which technology has enhanced my learning and many experiences in which my education has been impaired by technological difficulties. I believe that technology is an amazing tool and understand that it is constantly evolving. In order for its inclusion in the classroom to be successful, though, it must be embedded in the curriculum rather than a lengthy lesson separate from the actual class content.

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The End of The Line...

The Fall 2018 session of practicum is reaching a close. This means saying goodbye (for now) to our professors, our classmates, and our students. To reflect on my semester, I created a video about my experience and what I've learned. (Because if a picture's worth a thousand words, imagine what a video is worth.*) You can view the video here: https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/c3QYXPMBmUd/?mode=movie#/ *Also because it was a required part of the assignment; not gonna lie.

Padlet, Smithsonian, and MoMA

For those of you that don't know, I am currently building a unit for an English literature class for the first time. There are a lot of things I am trying to take into consideration with it, so I'm constantly altering in little (or big) ways. Right now, I'm pretty confident in my unit sketch, which encompasses a number of standards and learning experiences. For the purposes of my classes, I have focused primarily on three major assessments for the unit. Recently, I made a Padlet to express these assessments using images of displays from MoMA and Smithsonian . I approached this as an opportunity to test out Padlet as a potential technology to use in the classroom and I certainly did learn about the program. I was surprised by the MoMA and Smithsonian websites, though. These websites are very well-curated and are a hidden gem of a resource. The display can be used in a way similar to how I used them in this Padlet, as writing prompts, or for a multitude of other uses in an...

Practicum Norms

As a class, we were asked to generate four norms, or rules, for our classroom that we believed would foster a good learning environment. These are the norms we decided on as a class!

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