JenniferSmith


 * EMAIL: jen.smith at nordoniaschools.org

SKYPE ADDRESS: mrsjensmith

CLASS WEBSITE: []**

My favorite personal/professional use of technology
Email and texting on my cell phone are my favortie at this point in my life because they are major sources of communication for me. I use email to relay back and forth with my teaching partners and parents of my students. I use texting to keep current with my family and friends. I find them both fast and easy ways to keep in touch.

The most frustrating aspect of using "technology"
Not being able to access it when I want to. Since I use it so frequently to communicate, it is very frustrating when I am unable to access it.

To communicate with families through a class website and document students work through photos. I would like to create the website in an attempt to "go green" and encourage multiple means of communication to families. Documenting the students work and displaying it for them to view and reflect has been a goal of mine for awhile. It is a piece of my practice that needs strengthing. I often have the students take home work without displaying it. I thought using photos would be a way to document as well as send home to families.**
 * VISION STATEMENT:

I have used my flip video to record the students at circle time. We have recorded them singing and then the students got to wtahc themselves on the television during snack time. I have taken digital pictures of the students enaged in the classroom and many family activites recently. I created a share site on shutterfly.com, so that the parents can view the pictures and order prints. I have added a calendar and links to class newsletters to give families an additional way to receive infromation.
 * How are you currently engaging students through the use of technology?**

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**1. Think about the materials you created/used or the ways that you used your camera or Flip: What was your objective for this activity? How did you plan to monitor/assess children's learning? How did you incorporate UDL principles into this? * How did you represent the ideas/concepts/skills in different ways? * What options did children have for expression? * In what types of ways were children engaged? What behaviors did you observe to let you know that your children were engaged? 2. What websites that we explored at our last session did you use? [|www.rif.org] How did they fit into your lesson plan? Repeated reading of the story The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Students experienced story in a diffferent media and where exposed to visuals and audio in a different means then future readings. How did your children respond? Excited to hear a story on the computer instead of read aloud by a teacher. What types of materials did you download and use? Boardmaker Books for Valentine's Day** ======