The school year got off to a great start, and I am just feeling settled enough to share some reflections with the world again. Not that anyone is actually reading this! AH!
I am lucky to be working with two very dedicated, enthusiastic teachers who are willing to sit and share! This has already improved my teaching. Great ideas, talking about students' needs, dividing up work so we don't all have to reinvent the wheel. Today, one teacher shared a great free resource through Teaching Tolerance. Gonna check that out pronto!
I am preparing to do sharing of a different kind at Masscue. I am wondering why exactly I signed up to present...I am a bit nervous here! I only have 50 minutes to present Digital Storytelling using Photo Story 3. Digital Storytelling could be an entire day of workshops, so I am narrowing it down into bite size chunks. I will share the process that I am taking my students through to create their own Photo Story about why their home is special to them. Digital Storytelling's focus is personal narrative which we all do with our students. Photo Story allows us to turn these writings into dramatic, visual productions with only a little bit of work.
Photo Story is by far the easiest technology I have incorporated into my classroom. Once people see how easy it is, they never go back!
I hope to get back to writing at least one post a week! I now write a weekly newsletter to parents and that takes up some of my blogging time, but I really want to get back to this!
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2 comments:
I love Photo Story too. It's so easy to use.
As for writing a weekly newsletter, couldn't you blog a weekly newsletter instead?
Thanks, Nancy!
I could put a link to my blog on my Edline page. However, I would like to keep this blog for reflections, not parent communication. Starting a new blog just for that doesn't seem worth it since I can just post it on Edline. The parents are still not all on board about Edline. They might never see my blog since it would be another step in the process. :-)
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