This is the first time that I had used the networking
concept for my professional career. It
has been a wonderful learning experience by being engaged in networking for my
professional growth, and I’ve learned so much by networking professionally.
The affinity group that I joined is Classroom 2.0. In this affinity group are teachers that
incorporate technology used into their lessons and for everything else in their
classroom. In this affinity group what I’ve
been learning professional is by participating in the Classroom 2.0 LIVE presentations
on Saturday night. Where teachers get to
share what technology applications or programs they’re using in the classroom
that is showing student success. During
the presentations the audiences can ask questions by sharing questions on the
desktop, and the audiences can engaged with each other by using the chat feature
on the desktop. I watched a presentation
with Linda Rood who teaches a second/third grade combo class and she shared how
she uses the iPad applications of Kidblog, Edmodo, Spelling and Brain Pop to
enhance students learning experiences and students meeting individual
goals. She showed the audience on how to
create an iBook and videos, and showed examples of her students work using
these programs. During the two hour live
presentations I was expose to different applications and features on the iPad
that I wasn’t aware that can enhance student learning and have students meet individual
learning goals. On the desktop I was interacting
with teachers bouncing ideas back and forth of how else can we the
applications, or what projects and activities are students can do. By being part of the affinity group my
professional development is growing because I am collaborating, learning, and engaging
with other teachers of how incorporating technology in the classroom is beneficial
to the students. Using the RSS feeds has
made me expand on my professional knowledge.
Through Digg Stream I was to enhance my knowledge about the Common Core
Standards on how the standards will be implementing in the classroom, and how
to incorporate lessons the new standards.
I am preparing for my professionally by learning and studying the new
Common Core Standards, so that when I do get hired full time as a teacher I am
prepare of what the standards are and how to teach the standard to my future
students.
I’ve really enjoyed using blogs in this course to complete
the assignments. This is a great way for
us to express our thoughts and experiences by writing about it for our different
assignments. Also using the blog for this
course is a great way to stay connected with our classmates by reading what
they wrote about, and we can comment on each other page with suggestions, or ideas
to enhance their original ideas. Some of
my co-workers, family, and friends have found my blog and they told me they’ve
enjoyed reading what I’ve learned in this course thus far, and how I’m using technology
in the course as well. Having a blog in
the classroom would be great for students to improve on writing skills, exchanging
ideas with each other students, and have students would have accountability to
make sure that their blog is proofread, edited, and submitted by the due
day. With students having blogs it is
important for students to have privacy and to protect their identity from
outsiders. Teachers need to set up blogs
to where the teacher is the only that can see their blogs in order to protect
the students from outsiders. For my
personal social networking I don’t use Twitter, but I can see how using Twitter
would be beneficial for my professional networking and also to be used in the
classroom. A teacher can give out an
assignment for the students to find an image or video of a particular topic and
the students can hash tag the following image or video to the feed. Using Twitter could have been more effective
in this class if we would have followed our classmates and been given an
assignment through Twitter to see the out coming of using Twitter for the
assignment.
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