Just sitting at home, listening to music, and sipping on my favorite beverage.

Saturday 4/6 Group: I had so much fun creating my story. The tool is simple and engaging, what more do you want? I called my grandson when I got home and we are looking forward to narrating a story together. I love it! Thank you for the information on such a powerful tool ;)

Moo and Senor Story

http://storybird.com/books/the-adventures-of-moo-and-senor/

I created a twitter account and I think it is going to be a very fun social network. I plan to keep this account for classroom use so the trends I follow are educational and mathematical. I was so excited because on Pi-day I showed a prezi that was created by a math student here at NMSU. She shared the prezi so I used it on Pi-day. The kids loved it and I found so much more info on twitter trends that paralleled the prezi info.

You guys gave a great presentation. I especially became more interested in trying Twitter. I do not like to write and short, sweet to the point messages would work for me. Thank you. One way I could use social networks in my math classes would be for discussing problem solving in a "get to the point" forum via Twitter. Students could also use Twitter as a research and/or communication tool to follow trends and network. More importantly, I feel Twitter is an age appropriate tool for my 7th and 8th grade students. A way I could introduce Twitter at the beginning of the year would be to post something like a math riddle, logic problem or brain teaser so as to provoke a short explanation finding a solution. I would like to be able to give those types of problems for homework so as to prepare them for the next days objective(s). I would also allow students to use their cell phones to access Twitter while in my class.

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Response to Blog presentation

Thanks guys. You did a great job today. I am also new to blogging and find it quite interesting. I can definitely see how an English teacher could use blogs for various assignments. I think that your blog assignment is a great idea to begin a lesson but I also see so many ways to be able to engage your students not only by using blogs but by opening up the creativity. I believe Shiloh stated in class that the lesson opens up the doors to students who may be interested in poetry, music, drama, writing, acting that I can envision this entry level lesson much more engaging.

A little about me

Hello everyone! I am so new to this tech stuff even though I have managed to learn and use things like Smartboards, clickers, and mobis in my classroom. I have learned about some web 2.0 tools and have used a few.
I am an Algebra 1 teacher at a middle school and will be teaching Geometry as well next year.  I have attended many workshops that the school district provides on technology but the training is very minimal. I usually have to play with whatever we learned about for a while. I also get frustrated when I don't have what I need in my classroom to really implement more technology into my lessons.
My vocabulary as far as technology is shabby , for instance, I had no idea what a blog url was so I googled it. Still not quite sure.
Anyway, just trying this blogging out and seems very simple. I would definitely like to have a blog for my math courses so students can discuss, explain and share information.
I am looking forward to really learning about all of the web tools that are available to me and my students. I love technology but need to know how to use it efficiently and make it and easy part of my lesson plans.