I choose to critique the blog Lisa Nielsen the Innovative Educator. I really enjoyed reading her about me. I like why she wrote her blog, which was because she found school boring, so she became a public school educator who works to change how people feel about school. She uses innovative ways to prepare students for relevant and real-world success. I love that she makes sure that educators and students have a voice in things that affect them. I liked that in her blog she discusses technology. One of her posts is about hashtags. Since technology is so important and so frequently used in schools today I think it's good that she discusses it on her blog. I also noticed that at the end of some of her blogs she asks questions and also gives other resources to find more information about what she was talking about. In another one of my blogs I always ended it with questions, so I like that she does that. Ending it with questions gives your readers something to think about after they read the post.
This post really stood out to me. She wrote a post about student-friendly social media guidelines. There is an innovative educator who used these guidelines to make a bulletin board. It's appealing to students and makes them want to read what it says. It's also a good way to give some reminders about social media and how what you post can affect you and the people around you.
Overall, her blog was very interesting and I think she has good ideas. I might even use some of her ideas in my own classroom to make sure my students don't start to think school is boring.
My expectations for this course are to get more familiar with technology. I want to know how to use a smart board/promethean board. I would like to know how to teach lessons on it and play games. I am also hoping to get more familiar with Google drive and sites and everything that Google does. Google seems to be very convinient because everything you need is right there.
My name is Madeline Smith and I am from Knoxville. I want to be and elementary education teacher and hopefully work with one of the lower grades but would be happy anywhere. I work at an elementary school now and it happens to be the same one that I attended. It's Rocky Hill elementary in west Knoxville. I attended Pellissippi my freshman year before I came to UT, but I am very happy with my decision to come to UT. I am looking forward to this semester and the next year in the education program.
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