It's been more than a week since my last post already. I think it's going to be a while before blogging is a habit with me. Thanks so much to my friends who wrote me on facebook with suggestions and encouragement. For those who have so kindly added me to their blog readers (without being assigned to do it, even!), I am grateful and I hope not to disappoint.
This week I've added a few educational blogs to my blogroll that look promising. Mostly they are general in nature. So far I haven't found many that are specific to teaching English or Spanish. I know they're out there though, and I'll be hunting. I would appreciate any suggestions for good sites.
I also signed up for 2 social networking sites: Diigo and passionateteachers.ning.com. Diigo comes highly recommended and the other looks promising as well.
A site that I use frequently that isn't a blog is www.education-world.com for their Every Day Edits. It gives my students a quick review of grammar and editing each day. It is a paragraph about some notable person or event or thing with about 10 mistakes in it. I usually post the paragraph on the Promethean board and have the students take turns at correcting with a stylus. They seem to enjoy it, and they might even be learning something. Even the kids with strong grammar skills are at least building their general knowledge. Yesterday, it was about Jesse James. Only 2 of my students had even heard of him!
On another note, it stormed and rained yesterday in the city of Provo. Rain is good for my soul :) Yea for Autumn!
Farewell Dean Clark
7 years ago
J, I really like that you went out and found a different social network then the ones I had listed (your Ning group). Great!
ReplyDeleteThe only thing lacking at this point is if you could post a screenshot of your Google Reader so I can see that they are all loaded into your Reader correctly.
To do this on a Mac, hold down shift + apple key + 4. It makes a cross hairs, which you drag over the part of your screen you want to capture. Let go, and the picture shows up on your desktop for you to email to me. On a PC, it's a little more tricky because PC machines aren't always the same and some do things differently than others. But for most PCs, do this:
1. Press the "Print Screen" button. (Next to the NumLk [Number Lock])
2. Paste the picture into Word or Paint and save it.
Knowing how to do this is simple once you have learned how, and it can be very useful as a teacher for quickly taking a picture of what you want your students to do or see. I use it all the time to show something on my computer to help a student see where they are supposed to click, or how something is supposed to look.