Mrs. Anderson's Blog

My Top FIVE Creativity Tools Creativity I am happy to say that I found dozens of creativity tools that can be used in meaningful and developmentally appropriate ways. I am constantly looking for creative ways to pique my students interests and create a wow learning experience. As a Special Education Teacher it's important to me to find new ways to differentiate instruction in such a way that all students are able to achieve. The following sites allow students to CREATE   5. Nearpod I love the concept of Nearpod ! With Nearpod  it not only allows teachers to find or create lessons but the multimedia platform creates engaging interactive discussions with students. I really enjoyed playing around with Nearpod. As a teacher one of our most valuable commodities is time! I love that Nearpod gives you access to thousands of ready to run lessons with the option to customize. It allows students to save prep time by easily importing existing lessons and adding...

The ePortfolio ePortfolio's are very different from traditional standardized testing, it focuses more on what a student can do, rather than what they can’t. The ePortfolio is a student centered learning experience that allows students to utilize technology to collect artifacts to demonstrate evidence of learning and achievement.  As a learner pursing a graduate degree I find ePortfolio's to be more relevant and meaningful to my academic and career goals than other forms of assessments. Currently, I am a teacher and my goal is to ultimately be an administrator. Simply taking a test or writing a research paper does not show the full extent of my experience or learning. Now to answer the question of preference! The question was asked which do I prefer, portfolio's or standard forms of assessments. While researching ePortfolio's I found a video of a teacher speaking of his experience using ePortfolio's in his classroom. He told the story of one of his s...

What Is A Blog? This is my very first blog!.....but wait! What is a blog? Well, a blog is a regularly updated website or web page, typically run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style . I reviewed several different blog sites and I love the idea of having a classroom blog. Although I have never "blogged" before I can see how using a blog would be an excellent communication tool with not only students but parents.  I reviewed several different blog sites and they all had similar requirements to setup a blog such as: choosing a blog name, selecting a theme, modifying your design to fit your style.  Content The content for my blog is writing. Students and parents will utilize my blog to communicate with me. Students will also use discussion boards to post thoughts and communicate with peers as well as view assignments and access student resources. Blogs afford a means of responsive, written social int...