#ntbootcamp: Blogs

I am very excited to start using blogs in a classroom. I imagine I would have a blog for each classroom individually in which I posted homework and classroom resources, and the students could comment to the posts. I would also like each student to have his or her own blog so that he/she can use it for journaling exercises. I was taught in my Literacy in Math class and in my methods course that journaling helps students identify their points of misunderstanding as well as build the relationship between teacher and student. I feel that I would want their blogs to be private from each other if they so choose due to bullying and privacy, but it would be nice if there were issues in understanding and the students could collaborate with each other in order to fill the gaps.

#ntbootcamp: Wetoku

This took a while for me to get around to, but I finally did it. I'm not happy with the video quality available on the free version of wetoku, and I am hoping to find another similar online tool that gives better quality. Here is my video that I recorded as an introduction. I am currently speaking with a few of my friends to see if they are interested in being interviewed,  too.




My goals for using wetoku in the classroom:

• Show students how math is used in real jobs (even if the math isn't done by the people, how it is still important to understand the concepts in order to interpret what the computer is doing)
• Have students explore the lives of mathematicians
• Send video updates to parents