Post #1 - Building and Refining your PLN

RSS Accounts

I have chosen these 3 different bogs to talk about because I feel as if they could benefit me as a teacher.

http://www.pre-kpages.com/blog/

I selected pre-k pages as a blog because of the way the blog is designed the owner Mrs. Levin has done a very well job proving details and making it easily accessible. If you are searching for a certain thing she has a search box that will direct you straight to it, her tabs are always very well organized making very easy. 

http://catholicblogger1.blogspot.com/p/to-z-pre-k-k-bible-stories.html

The second blog I've chosen to add to my RSS reader is the catholic blogger, this blog provides me with many different religious activities to do in  my pre-k class. I tend to have a very hard time finding religious activities and crafts to provide in the classroom and this blog not only does that but also provides me with many amazing prayers to go with the crafts. It also helps me find religious books that will go with the content we are learning about. 

http://blogs.preknow.org/insideprek/technology/

The third blog I've chosen to add to my RSS reader is the Pre know, this blog provides many different ways to include technology into a lesson and different read along to provide with a lesson.  Being new to the IT program I am still learning a lot about technology and the amazing tools the web 2.0 provide also the amazing apps that can integrate in the classroom, this blog provides me with additional knowledge on IT. 

Twitter Accounts 

@KidsStudying

I have chosen to follow kids studying because I believe reading is the number one fundamental to learning and this twitter focuses a lot about the importance’s of reading.

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@MattBGomez

I’ve chosen to follow this Kindergarten teacher because he tweets lots of motivating quotes as well as beautiful pictures. He speaks a lot about his day and is very honest about it.

@shannonmmiller 

I’ve chosen to follow because she is a K-12 Liberian and has lots of knowledge on different topics; she also does a lot of chats through her twitter.

@coolcatteacher 

Cool cat teacher is a great tweeter account to follow I actually also follow her blogging around. She tweets lots of different motivational articles as well as different student centered activities. She reminds us that it is important for the students to interact with one another and how the mind works.

@MomSpark 

 

Is a mom who knows a lot about children and working with the young ones this twitter account really helps, she always tweets a lot about arts and crafts which is great for Pre-K.

As far as using these different tools in my classroom so far has been a little tough because my co teacher and I set our calendar a month in advance, so this have made it very difficult to use the different information I've been provided with from twitter and my RSS reader account. Although I have seen a few different crafts on pointers that I have included in my classroom.