Week 1 What I learned: This week, I focused on trying to locate groups on Twitter that relate to areas of interest for me in education and technology. Since I haven't used Twitter in years, that took a little bit of time to get acclimated again. However, I did find several groups related to social studies instruction as well as educational technologies since Minecraft EDU, which I love to try to utilize in my classroom.
Among my classmates, I spent a lot of time looking over the twitter feeds of the music teachers in the group! To be honest, I am not sure I have ever taken any grad classes with music teachers before, so it was certainly interesting to see their views on technology and how to use it in their classrooms. I loved the utilization of SoundCloud for music students, as well as questioning what other types of music we could utilize in schools that don't fit into those traditional Band/Chorus/Orchestra molds. All great ideas!
Week 1 What I learned: This week, I focused on trying to locate groups on Twitter that relate to areas of interest for me in education and technology. Since I haven't used Twitter in years, that took a little bit of time to get acclimated again. However, I did find several groups related to social studies instruction as well as educational technologies since Minecraft EDU, which I love to try to utilize in my classroom.
Among my classmates, I spent a lot of time looking over the twitter feeds of the music teachers in the group! To be honest, I am not sure I have ever taken any grad classes with music teachers before, so it was certainly interesting to see their views on technology and how to use it in their classrooms. I loved the utilization of SoundCloud for music students, as well as questioning what other types of music we could utilize in schools that don't fit into those traditional Band/Chorus/Orchestra molds. All great ideas!