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Twitter Part 1

Our class’ most constant homework assignment is using our Twitter accounts to tweet, retweet, or respond to other tweets about technology in education. This also included following educators and organizations who post about using technology in school. According to many teachers who use Twitter regularly, it is an effective tool for building and connecting with their Personal Learning Network. In other words, they agree that it is a good site to use for sharing educational ideas and learning from other educators’ ideas. The outcome of this assignment, therefore, is to help us see trends and gain insights about the increasing use of technology in education today. Since I did not have a Twitter account before this class, I had to create one and get used to checking it regularly. At first, checking Twitter regularly was a little difficult because the only social media I constantly look at is Pinterest. Once I got into it, however, I started retweeting lots of posts from EdTech K-12 Magazin...
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Module 5: Flipping Out

Our assignment for the class’ fifth module was creating a classroom flip video. A classroom flip model turns the traditional model of instruction around. In other words, instead of the teacher presenting new content to students during class and then having the students complete assignments after class, the “lecture” part is presented online before face-to-face meeting. The content we had to present in our flip projects needed to be subjects that will eventually be used by the students in our field placements. They also needed to align with a standard for the grade that those students are in. My placement was in a special education school called Elim, and the classroom had students who were in 2nd through 5th grades and who all had autism. During my time in that placement, I noticed that one of the students did not seem to know how to identify the different parts of sentences (nouns, adjectives, verbs). Because of this, I chose to create an Adjectives presentation based on this third g...
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Module 2: Digital Storytime

For our class’ second module, we had to create a Digital Story with Wevideo.com. This assignment required us to choose an Illinois Teaching Standard and connect it to our lives in the form of a story. The standard I chose was SS.G.2.3: Compare how people modify and adapt to the environment and culture in our community to other places. I connected this standard to my personal life by talking about living in Spain and Chicago. As I revealed how my identity was shaped by both of their cultures, I also explained how parts of those cultures came to be. For example, I mentioned that I am unable to speak Spanish fluently because my family moved between cities that speak different languages. The two cities we lived in were Barcelona and Madrid. Since Barcelona is located in an autonomous community, it has a different official language than the majority of Spain. Therefore, its official language is Catalan while most of the rest of Spain has Castilian/Spanish as their official language. We w...
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