Scott+McCarty

Scott McCarty LESSON PLAN FOR FINAL: PLN: For a PLN I have joined the twitter-verse and am on my hootsuite to check out what is going on. I have talked with other teachers at my school so that they can see the potential of twitter and being an educator on it. It has been difficult to get the idea acrossed to them that it is not just for celebrities to tell us what they ate for lunch.

I also have been trying to keep up with the RSS feeds on my google reader. This is difficult for me to do with 5 preps a day and not much time to read everyday. I keep up as best I can but it isn't always the easiest thing to do. As for Technology that I am using in the classroom I have been trying different things. I have tried a vuvox, voki, and voicethread. Being a language teacher it is important for me to use tools that students are able to give verbal feedback. Voicethread is a pretty awesome tool to use for this. media type="custom" key="8695934"media type="custom" key="8695994"

I have also started working with a wiki in my Spanish IV sight. Students are able to post to it and pull things from it. All of their homework in on line as well as all assessments. Students are able to collaborate on here and post reminders to themselves as well as post helpful links for each other. The learning curve for both the students and myself was a little steep but we work things out together and have had an enjoyable experience. In our school we have gone to 1:1 for our 8th grade and will have three grades with it next year. I have implemented using kubbu with my 8th grade students for vocabulary review and constant usage.