PLN Additions

Blogs

The Joy of Literacy

http://thejoyofliteracy.blogspot.com/

She goes into detail about how she set up her reading intervention room and the materials she uses in a small space.

Hello Literacy

http://www.helloliteracy.com/

The author is a literacy professional development speaker on the blog she gives advice on how to incorporate 21^st century reading strategies into the classroom.

RTI Action Network

http://www.rtinetwork.org/

Response to intervention (RTI) provides research and procedures on how to effectively implement an intervention program.

Twitter

George Couros

@gcouros

George post about issues that relate to the teaching world and the why in which as educators must change their mind sets so that we can our students mind sets.

Reading Rockets

@ReadingRockets

Reading Rocket is a website that focuses on reading and provides tools and strategies to help improve you reading instruction and help those students that are struggling.

Steven W. Anderson

@web20classroom

Steven tweets about the use of technology in education. He holds chats on his hashtag #edtechtips were they talk about using technology in the classroom and pedagogies behind them.

WeAreTeachers

@WeAreTeachers

The tweets on this twitter account are about giving teachers idea and inspiration to do what they do best teach. They talk about the things that all teachers need to know as well as showcasing teachers that provided inspiration to keep going on the hard days.

Monica Schroeder

@schroederpage

This second-grade teacher’s twitter page is fill with many helpful activates, classroom ideas, and lesson plans with in all subject area.

Reflection

            I have not really used any of these tools with in my instruction mainly because the opportunity has not come up yet. I am gravitating towards more of using the blog in my classroom as a way for me to keep my classroom parents up to date on what is going on with in my classroom. Being able give my students extra help outside of the classroom by providing instructional videos so they can rewatch any lessons to gain clarity and so the parents understand what they are learning as well. I would like to work on able to find information that is relevant to the topic that I am researching. Learn better ways of narrowing down my searches.