Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Friday, March 10, 2017
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Positivity on Twitter
By Mark Heintz
As part of the new year, I made a resolution to share my classroom on Twitter this year. I feel one of the roles of a teacher is to communicate with the community that they serve. Over the past two weeks, I have tried to tweet at least once every day about the nature of the lesson or progress towards a goal.
The first positive result of my efforts to tweet has been connecting with other teachers and getting new ideas. A few weeks ago, our school Periscoped a few classrooms to share a live feed of daily classroom learning. You can read about that here. I received some feedback on the lesson and changed my plan the next day to incorporate their ideas about including argument towers to improve student writing. I thanked them for the suggestion on Twitter. It was great to get new ideas and share the results!
Another positive result has been feedback from parents and guardians. I have a few parents/guardians who actively follow me on Twitter and one tweeted at me:
It was a positive affirmation of my efforts to share what was happening in the classroom.
Finally, the first few days of the new year, the pictures in my tweets largely came from my first period class. A student in my second hour said I was unfairly biased towards my first period. He was right, so I now engage with all of my classes throughout the day. The students are interested in what I share and how I share it. They are turning into historians!
It has been a great start, and I can't wait to see future outcomes!
The first positive result of my efforts to tweet has been connecting with other teachers and getting new ideas. A few weeks ago, our school Periscoped a few classrooms to share a live feed of daily classroom learning. You can read about that here. I received some feedback on the lesson and changed my plan the next day to incorporate their ideas about including argument towers to improve student writing. I thanked them for the suggestion on Twitter. It was great to get new ideas and share the results!
Another positive result has been feedback from parents and guardians. I have a few parents/guardians who actively follow me on Twitter and one tweeted at me:
It was a positive affirmation of my efforts to share what was happening in the classroom.
Finally, the first few days of the new year, the pictures in my tweets largely came from my first period class. A student in my second hour said I was unfairly biased towards my first period. He was right, so I now engage with all of my classes throughout the day. The students are interested in what I share and how I share it. They are turning into historians!
It has been a great start, and I can't wait to see future outcomes!
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Have you seen the 214Ready Blog? Check it out!
By Linda Ashida
Do you want to be inspired by the ways that students are preparing for their future in District 214? We suggest you check out the 214Ready Blog to learn about the many ways that we collaborate with students, parents and the community to insure that students are college, career, and life ready when they graduate.
This week's post is on the Power of the Hashtag, showing how Social Media can multiply our opportunities to showcase learning in action and build connections and community across the district and beyond. Check it out!
And, if you have suggestions for the 214Ready blog please contact Linda Ashida or Jen Delgado.
Do you want to be inspired by the ways that students are preparing for their future in District 214? We suggest you check out the 214Ready Blog to learn about the many ways that we collaborate with students, parents and the community to insure that students are college, career, and life ready when they graduate.
This week's post is on the Power of the Hashtag, showing how Social Media can multiply our opportunities to showcase learning in action and build connections and community across the district and beyond. Check it out!
And, if you have suggestions for the 214Ready blog please contact Linda Ashida or Jen Delgado.
Friday, May 13, 2016
Education Blogs for Summer Reading
Written by Linda Ashida
This week a TeachThought blog post came across my Twitter feed that I found myself re-reading and thinking about how well it captured some key concepts that show how teaching is different today than it used to be: TeachThought: A Diagram of Pedagogy in the 21st-Century.
Reading the TeachThought blog reminded me how inspiring it can be to take time each week to read various education blogs. Of course, there are so many great blogs, but so little time. But, as summer approaches, and gives us more time to catch up on educational reading, I thought I would share the Teach100 list of Education blogs.
Some of my favorites on the list include: MindShift, Edutopia, and the Principal of Change.
Of course, this very Collab Blog is also on our list of favorites! Do you have favorite blogs, or an inspiring post you have come across lately? Please share!
This week a TeachThought blog post came across my Twitter feed that I found myself re-reading and thinking about how well it captured some key concepts that show how teaching is different today than it used to be: TeachThought: A Diagram of Pedagogy in the 21st-Century.
Reading the TeachThought blog reminded me how inspiring it can be to take time each week to read various education blogs. Of course, there are so many great blogs, but so little time. But, as summer approaches, and gives us more time to catch up on educational reading, I thought I would share the Teach100 list of Education blogs.
Some of my favorites on the list include: MindShift, Edutopia, and the Principal of Change.
Of course, this very Collab Blog is also on our list of favorites! Do you have favorite blogs, or an inspiring post you have come across lately? Please share!
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