In my teaching life, this year I have moved to 1st grade after teaching 3rd grade for 13 of my 14 years. I am loving the change! I have a Promethean Board in my classroom. I love using technology with my class
whenever possible, but I find it difficult to incorporate it as much as I would
like.
My expectations from this course would be to see how I can incorporate literacy 2.0 technologies in my first grade classroom. When you conduct a search on literacy 2.0 or web 2.0 tools, the list of results can be overwhelming. It's hard not to get lost in links looking for that perfect idea to fit into your classroom. I look forward to learning from others some of the successes they have had incorporating new tools. In searching for a link for this assignment, I came across this entry from a McREL blog titled- What's so different about Literacy 2.0? I thought it was very timely for the topic of this class
In my student life, I am also taking courses from the Library Media Specialist program. I hope
to be my school’s new LTS (Library Technology Specialist) in the near future. Classes from 2 different programs certainly keep my brain busy, but it is interesting to see how the two programs complement each other.
In my personal life, my husband and I have been together for 15 years and have 2 sons. Fisher is 6 and just started Kindergarten at my school this year. Sawyer is 3 1/2 and is quite the character!
Ok, I have to admit that I played in your fish pond for a bit! It is pleasing to hear that your two programs (LMS and MET) compliment each other. I would certainly hope that they share some of the same big ideas. Since you are comfortable with it, I would suggest doing Wordle with your students. It would be a great beginning of the year activity for your students on describing words. Once they get to know each other a bit better, you could use it as a character education activity and have them do wordles on each other.
ReplyDeleteMy son likes the fish pond too :)
DeleteI think Wordle has a lot of potential in the classroom! I can't wait to use it with my 1st graders this year.