Miss Meaghan Cady

The most recent assignment for our class was teaching an interactive lesson on the SMARTBoard. Our lessons had to be in the form of a SMART Notebook file and last no more than five minutes. Not only was this assignment helping us develop our skills with creating a lesson on SMART Notebook 17.0 but it was also helping us practice our lesson planning skills. The lesson that I chose to taught was a 3rd grade reading introduction to finding the author’s tone. In order to teach this topic, I selected a short story and inserted the first paragraph of it into the SMART Notebook file. On the day that my lesson was taught, I read this paragraph aloud to my pretend students and placed emphasis on the vocabulary words/phrases within them. I then assessed the students’ knowledge of the vocabulary definitions with a matching game. Next, I used a fill-in-the-blank game to evaluate their knowledge of what the vocabulary words/phrases meant in the story’s context. In order to assess the students’ abil...

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...