Three New Blogs
The first new blog I am following this week is Middle School Matters. The content of this blog varies from instructional ideas to content. I am now teaching middle school, but most of my previous teaching experience has been with older students. I like that I can read about all different topics related to middle school in order to assist in fine tuning my skills in working with this age group.
My next new blog follow is Hunger Games Lessons. My 7th-grade classes are currently reading the Hunger Games in my class. I am using the novel to teach lessons on theme, vocabulary, and figurative language & literary devices. This blog will be a great resource over the next month for supplemental material and additional ideas.
Finally, I started following the Grammar Girl Blog. Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, hosts one of my favorite podcast about language. She frequently mentions her blog on the podcast, but I have never read it before. It looks like there is more in-depth coverage of issues discussed in the podcast as well as tons of other articles. I'm looking forward to skimming through this one.
Five New Twitter Follows
1. @friEdTechnology Amy Mayer- Mayer is a Google Certified Teacher who frequently tweets about issues related to technology and education.
2. @UKShakespeare Shakespeare Magazine- Frequent tweets obviously about all things Shakespeare. Hopefully, this could be a resource for teaching ideas or articles.
3. @nhaschools NHA Schools- This is the twitter feed for the company that owns the school where I am working.
4. @mieducation Michigan Dpt. of Education- This is all information related to education in Michigan. It looks like they have posted some interesting links and info over the past few weeks.
5. @johngreen John Green- I'm actually surprised I wasn't already following one of my favorite authors. In addition to writing great books, John Green produces tons of education related content (see 'Crash Course' on YouTube).
Reflection
Since our last assignment, I have not looked at any of the blogs I followed. While many of them look interesting, with how busy I have been this semester, perusing blogs, unfortunately, gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. Twitter is something I used fairly frequently before this class. When I began my student teaching, I deleted my personal twitter (so that students could not find it) and started a new professional twitter. This class was actually a great way for me to beef up my feed with some new education-related content. I don't tweet very much myself, but I do look through my feed quite a bit. In the future, I would like to get better about actually tweeting and interacting with people on twitter instead of just being a passive and unengaged user.
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