Introduction Blog
Introduce yourself. First name, last initial. What subject or grade do you hope to teach?
This is just to check and make sure you can access the Disqus system.
History Blog
Interview an elder among your family and friends who is a retired or veteran teacher. What is the wisdom they offer you as a beginning educator? What do they love/hate about the profession? What is different about the teaching profession today than when they began teaching? Write about this teacher in this Blog and share some of the profession's collective wisdom.
Gender Blog
What was something from the one of the documentaries or readings on gender that made an impact on you?
Funds of Knowledge Blog
Blog about how you could tap into your own students’ “funds of knowledge.” What about this week’s information can you implement? How can you go out into the community to bring the community into the school?
Curriculum Blog
Write either about your own experience with a colonized curriculum or write about your responses to Helena’s amazing article on how she, as a young child, decolonized her own education.
Metaphor Blog
Write a few paragraphs using something as a metaphor for your own teaching.
I can’t wait to read these!
EXTRA Blogs
SOCIAL JUSTICE BLOG
What exactly does it mean to you to "teach for social justice"? Not sure? Before you answer, read some of these articles as they might guide your thoughts.
Creating classroom for social justice
Teaching social justice in theory and practice
What does teaching for social justice mean to teacher candidates?
APP Blog
One of your assignments for TED 400 is to review an app that you like. For instance, one app I use is Chalkboard. You can find it here:http://appshopper.com/utilitie.... It's a FREE app that lets your write and draw everything you want on a chalkboard using colored chalk. It has realistic animations and sounds to even make it sound like a real chalkboard. You can use images from your own photo albums as backgrounds if you so choose. I use it alongside another app I like a lot called Doodle Buddy (find it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap.... Both of these apps are simple ways to make my PowerPoints more engaging and visually rich.
To fulfill the requirements for reviewing an app for this course, write about an app that is one of your favorites on this Blog. Share with us how you'd use it as well. By the time we're done with this Blog we should have 40+ new apps to consider!
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