C4T Summery Post

I had the pleasure in reading Andrea Hernandez's blog EdTeach Workshop. Ms. Hernandez's post on Re-thinking faculty meetings begins talking about how faculty meeting are a drag. In most meetings they are wasting time talking about the water machine in the teacher's lounge. Ms. Hernandez makes several good point about how to improve faculty meetings; points such as starting meetings on time and ending them on time, having teachers learn from one another, and having different teachers host the meeting. At the end of her blog she asked what are other schools doing during faculty meeting and what are other ideas to best use time?

I commented and told her they have great ideas in how to make faculty meetings useful instead of a drag. Getting the other teachers involved will not only help the productivity of the school but it will also help teachers learn from other teachers. I know one major thing being in education is never stop learning. I do not know what other schools are doing during their faculty meeting because I haven't been to one but an idea to help best use time is make it fun as well as educational.

Andrea Hernandez's blog post Plan, Do, Review iPad Exploration is about her school finally getting 20 new iPads. She talks about how she is inexperienced with using the iPad but she wants to do research to learn more about iPad and how she can better educate her 2nd grade students. With using her exploration skills, Ms. Hernandez refers to a model called "Plan, Do, and Review". She chose this model because it choose what they want to do with help from the teacher. First, Ms. Hernandez plans what apps she would like for her students to use; next, she tried the different apps with the students, of course there were some apps that she like more than others; last, she review by using a form for the students to use. Ms. Hernandez is  having more sessions with her students and the iPads and taking notes on what they have done and what they are going to do next.

I commented and told her she had a great idea. Using the iPad can be a little confusing when you first use it but as you use it more it begins to easy to use. I think having iPads in the classroom can help students to become more involved in their education and learning becomes fun. There are many apps that can be used for reading, writing, recognizing letters and much more.