OK, Lets just say that iGoogle is my new best friend! In school you have to take so many classes and you think, How is this really gonna help me in my life? I sure don't feel that way when I leave ED EL 3250. A huge part of being a teacher is organization and everything that we are learning in Google does just that. I really can't believe that my team created our classroom rules PowerPoint in like 15 minutes on google docs. We were all collaborating at the same time, and it ended up being a really nice presentation. Every time I leave class my brain starts thinking how can I use this in my future classroom. Using Google Docs has also benefited me in my other 6 classes. We upload lesson plans and presentations and we can all work on them from our home. Even day in the El Ed. program our lives as students get a little more crazy, but I feel that through these new technologies, it takes a lot of stress of my time. I plan on using Google Docs for the rest of my life, and having my future students use them in our classroom, it is a fun simple way to work together simultaneously. The opportunities are endless, it is an effective way to integrate technology into the classroom and as long as you the teacher are a collaborator on their documents you can be aware of what they are working on but they have the freedom to create and work with their fellow peers. We are turning in our classroom websites this week, and I have really taken on this project and I am very proud of my site. Who knew that it would be so easy to make a website? In our changing world of technology, having everything readily available for your student's parents online will increase classroom participation and keep an open line of communication.
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At first I thought this video was incredibly funny. But as I watched I realized how you can actually use singing, and creative raps like that in your teaching. Especially in teaching math! There are many ways to teach children, and Direct instruction doesn't always work. Mr. Deuy took teaching fractions, which most would agree to be the hardest thing in math to teach and made it fun. He was correct in his teaching but did it in a non traditional way. You could use this in your classroom and then have your students get into groups and create their own raps and share them with the class!
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