Bridging technology for use in the classroom. February 2, 2011 by Karen. I recently returned from a one-semester sabbatical leave and am piloting a blogging journal with my advanced eighth grade reading class. There are 21 students in the class and they quickly caught on to the paperless journaling system I created on kidblog. The students respond to my posts about the novel we are reading,. Another student posted a request to the class to comment.

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The sessions have been very interesting so far. It was also great to listen to feedback and hear how presenters would have changed parts of their study.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. The second blog is a reflection on one article. It is out of the order, since I looked at the wrong list. Maybe I could have given some examples how the school made teachers learn and implement technology for better understanding. Other than that it looks good to me. The blog on Social Networking is missing the name of th.

Another important concept I focused on was that teachers need to WANT to learn technology. I found this idea so important. If there are teachers in the classroom that have been teaching for thirty years, it would be difficult to transfer over to the use of technology. Administrators must be aware of this and sensitive to this idea. Again, this is why mentoring and support is so important in teaching. Reading some of these articles .

I just made a new Voki. Posted by keckdana in Uncategorized. Posted by keckdana in Uncategorized. I have really enjoyed going back and rereading my blog entries and seeing how they changed for the better. It is amazing to realize how much reading we have done over the course of this semester! I really enjoyed this class and the whole blogging experience. I have to admit that I was skeptical in th.

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