Professional Development 1: Blogging with Scott Haselwood
For this session, we discussed how teachers could use blogging. We decided that blogging gives us the opportunity, as teachers to reflect on our practices, share ideas, give an audience for students, and collaborate with other teachers. Scott showed us many different ways we could make a blog through weebly, tumblr, wordpress and more. I think as a teacher, it would be really cool to have a blog that you shared with your parents and students. You could have pages for each different subject, as well as upcoming events, sign up sheets, and more. You could also have your students each have a blog where they uploaded their work for their parents to look at. There is so much you can do with a blog as a teacher, which is why I feel as though I got a lot out of this professional development.
Professional Development 2: Explain Everything App
For this professional Development, I went to the explain everything session. Explain everything is an interactive whiteboard that allows students to talk over what they have created while interacting with the presentation that they created. I used this app many times in high school, so I was familiar with the tools. One thing that I learned, that I didn't know before, is that you can lock and group the different images or texts on the presentation. For the session we created a timeline of the history of OU. We inserted pictures, dates, and captions and locked them so that you could easily scroll through the timeline. We talked over our presentation and then uploaded it to Seesaw. I will use explain everything as a future teacher in place of giving my students a worksheet or asking them to do this on paper. I believe that they are much more motivated when they are given a device to use.
For this session, we discussed how teachers could use blogging. We decided that blogging gives us the opportunity, as teachers to reflect on our practices, share ideas, give an audience for students, and collaborate with other teachers. Scott showed us many different ways we could make a blog through weebly, tumblr, wordpress and more. I think as a teacher, it would be really cool to have a blog that you shared with your parents and students. You could have pages for each different subject, as well as upcoming events, sign up sheets, and more. You could also have your students each have a blog where they uploaded their work for their parents to look at. There is so much you can do with a blog as a teacher, which is why I feel as though I got a lot out of this professional development.
Professional Development 2: Explain Everything App
For this professional Development, I went to the explain everything session. Explain everything is an interactive whiteboard that allows students to talk over what they have created while interacting with the presentation that they created. I used this app many times in high school, so I was familiar with the tools. One thing that I learned, that I didn't know before, is that you can lock and group the different images or texts on the presentation. For the session we created a timeline of the history of OU. We inserted pictures, dates, and captions and locked them so that you could easily scroll through the timeline. We talked over our presentation and then uploaded it to Seesaw. I will use explain everything as a future teacher in place of giving my students a worksheet or asking them to do this on paper. I believe that they are much more motivated when they are given a device to use.