Hi! I'm Andrea Kunz, and I am working towards getting my K-8 teaching certificate through Seattle U's MIT program. Right now my focus is on students in intermediate grades, as I hope to have a career teaching in a middle school science or math classroom, but I can get excited about any subject or age group and I hope I can impart that excitement to my students regardless of what I teach. I have traveled and volunteered in a number of different cultural contexts as well as working with students in schools closer to home, and look forward to applying some of the lessons from those experiences to my own classroom someday.
I've been known to waste an hour (or three) on the internet, and I know my way around most of the tools that students regularly use to complete traditional assignments--tables, word processing, presentations, etc.--but I am a bit of a technophobe as far as many of the web 2.0 or app-based tools go. I'm hoping that some of the tools that I find are things that enhance learning past its existing limitations, rather than just using technology that replicates traditional school work but with flash animation and weird fonts. There is what I have found so far:
Hi! I'm Andrea Kunz, and I am working towards getting my K-8 teaching certificate through Seattle U's MIT program. Right now my focus is on students in intermediate grades, as I hope to have a career teaching in a middle school science or math classroom, but I can get excited about any subject or age group and I hope I can impart that excitement to my students regardless of what I teach. I have traveled and volunteered in a number of different cultural contexts as well as working with students in schools closer to home, and look forward to applying some of the lessons from those experiences to my own classroom someday.
I've been known to waste an hour (or three) on the internet, and I know my way around most of the tools that students regularly use to complete traditional assignments--tables, word processing, presentations, etc.--but I am a bit of a technophobe as far as many of the web 2.0 or app-based tools go. I'm hoping that some of the tools that I find are things that enhance learning past its existing limitations, rather than just using technology that replicates traditional school work but with flash animation and weird fonts. There is what I have found so far:
Tech Tool #1: Curriki
Tech Tool #2: Prezi (UDL tool for differentiation)
Tech Tool #3: MySchoolNotebook.com
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