Bridging the Divide

Pushing the Classroom Outside of its Four Walls

Before our session starts feel free to add your name to our Twitter and Blog data sheet: bit.ly/bitdunso. Also get the conversation going at: bit.ly/mindsonbit

Introduction

Aviva: @Avivaloca

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• teaching for 14 yrs.
• Teach Grade 1 now, but have taught K-2, 5, and 6
• Met Jonathan three years ago on Twitter
• followed his blog, and commented back and forth through both blogs

Jonathan: @MrSoclassroom

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• teaching for nine yrs.
• Teach Grade 2 now but have taught jr for 7 before the move
• Met Aviva three years ago on Twitter
• followed her blog
• relationship has blossomed from that

Schedule

• Introductions

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• Thinking about Social Media and Blogging Platforms

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• Platforms we use in the classroom

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• How do we get this happening in the classroom

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• Ways to comment

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• Questions

Looking at Padlet comments

bit.ly/mindsonbit

Sharing ideas - share things that are happening in your class - teaching practices

Professional Learning

Connecting with other classrooms - Global Read Aloud example

Audience for their work - not just sitting inside the four walls of your classroom

Way to teach and model internet safety and citizenship - as we tweet and blog, so will they

Connect with people you wouldn’t have connected with

We all have our strengths and weaknesses - we all have different things to bring to the table and can learn from each other to professional development

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How do we use these tools

Twitter:

• Tweet our day
• Tweets of students responses
• Allows us to interact with:
• parents
• other teachers and admin
• Brings on new questions for our students and other inquiry

Blogging

• Reflection:
• Day
• Ideas/thoughts
• Help
• Communication
• Parents
• Teachers
• Creates Dialogue

How do we use the tools

Storify:

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• Collection of tweets for the day
• Communication:
• Parents
• Students
• Teachers
• Reflection
• Assessment

Provocations → look around

the room or online and read the comments, what do you think? Good/bad? If bad how would change? Would they create more discussion? Why or why not?

Blog Comment Examples

Link To Doug Peterson’s LiveBinder Of Ontario Educator Bloggers - Check out the comments on the blog posts.

Blog Hop

Aviva Dunsiger

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Jonathan So

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Kyle Pearce

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Kristi Bishop

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Livebinder of Ontario Educators

Our Ideas

ask open ended questions

put yourself out there

connect with people with like interests (common interests)

building relationships beyond blog post helps

video blogs/picture essays - other ways of sharing thinking - vlog (Jonathan sharing this is what his students do)

reading other blogs