Saturday, April 20, 2013

New Blog Find.....WOW!

I love it when I find new blogs

Ok, so I'm reading Facebook and looking at my blog friends sites. Normal Saturday morning for me, but today was different. WOW! what did I find.....

Lessons From The Middle
I was checking in with Lessons from the Middle and found my way though her post to Kleinspiration. Lessons in the Middle was hilighting a blog post on using Padlet in the classroom. 








So I went on over to Kleinspiration to check out the post. WOW! is all I can say. She has some outside of the box ways of looking at Padlet that I wouldn't have thought of. Boy did I learn a few things.
Kleinspiration

So I continued to search her site and found my way to a post about www.mentormob.com. I"m in love with this new site. I hadn't heard of it before, but it is well worth checking out. Head on over and check out www.mentormob.com.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

App of the Day

Evernote

Link:  https://evernote.com/

Why?: I absolutely love this app there are so many features that I haven't touched yet, but still I'm in love.  For starters, I can access it from my PC, MAC, IPad, and Android phone. I can even share my Evernote books with anyone.

I love the organization that I can place the notes that I take within notebooks for organizing my notes by topic. I can even place pictures within the notes to help remember what I"m seeing and taking notes over. Even better, I can search when I forget where I filed things.




My Best Use: interface Conference at Tan-Tar-A. I loved the notes when I arrived home because of the integration on pictures.



Cool Find Sunday

Look what I just found......

Math Questioning prompts:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Questioning-Prompts-for-Teachers

My kids will tell you that I'm a stickler for having them figure out what they are learning rather than telling them what they need to know. I love this easy list of questioning strategies to help kids find their way to the answer or right strategy.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Currently April


Listening: Radio as I work is calming. 

Loving: The weather has turned to beautiful here is Missouri. The in between stage between the blizzards and blistering humid heat.

Thinking: I've been reflecting on my Interface conference back in February. I went to the best session on 
Technical Writing in Science. She presented the book Questions, Claims, and Evidence as a resources to get kids thinking about their science writing along with her notebooking process. I just need to make it work for me. 

Wanting- Really thinking about implementing some combination of self-directed learning and station rotation in the classroom. 

Needing: Exercise. I'm good some days, and horrible most. I need to get my butt in gear.

Advice: I struggle with 6 grades daily who won't try for fear of being wrong. My message is always the same, you have to show me where you are for me to be able to help you. If you can show me an attempt, I can help you fix the thinking to get your learning on the right track toward mastery.