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I just made a new Voki. See it here:

This got me started.  I have a blog for my son, who is serving a mission in Nicaragua.  It took me a while to figure out how to do his blog, so this was much easier.  I will continue to add pieces to this blog, just as I did his.  I  look forward to creating one for my class this year, as I plan to post the link to our school's facebook page each week.  My goal is to use it as another form of parent communication.  The articles and videos viewed for this week were insightful and thought provoking.  I look forward to using this class as an extended PLC.  I love to visit classrooms and learn new information, and this will be a techy way to do the same thing.  While listening to the videos, it caused me to contemplate lessons with students teaching their peers how to use technology in the classroom.  It's amazing to think of how the internet has changed the way we interact with each other, how we access information, and most importantly, how we teach.

Week 1 Reflection:
After viewing the videos from the TIMS Grade Level Index I came to this conclusion, I have a lot of technology that hovers between the Entry and Adoption levels.  I was particularly interested in the Photo Word Problem project at the Adaptation level
Goal #1
Implement the Photo Word Problem project.  I should be able to pair with Finley's 5th grade class.  The Green Screen Ipad Ap I played with during the CUE conference will work nicely for the video portion of the task.  I plan to ask some of my colleagues if they would like to combine class budgets and share some of the green screen equipment to lower costs.

Goal #2
Implement a digital citizenship curriculum.  I need to strengthen that part of my technology instruction, as it was lacking last year.  Lisa Sedgewick and the 1st grade team used a great program last year.  I will pick her helpful brain for ideas.

Goal #3
ISTE Standard 2.D  Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.  This can be accomplished by conducting my own DIBELS testing to assess reading fluency.  I will then use that data to track and progress monitor students who are in the yellow and red zones.  My weekly timed fluency passages will be submitted as data into a google spreadsheet.  This data, along with the DIBELS scores will drive my instruction in terms of reading fluency.  Cerina Gastinea has reading passages I may send home to involve parents in the task to increase fluency.  I used Read Naturally passages exclusively last year, but I just might branch out this year.

I am not ready for summer to be over.