June 6, 2012

Today was another "WOW of a Day!!" We learned about "Flipping the Classroom". I embedded a video from a teacher explaining why you'd want to do this ~ and AGAIN ~ it was another WOW!!! For more information - go to: fi.ncsu.edu/project/fizz and look at this Fb site too: Dr. Lodge McCammon's FIZZ. We also learned how to create free websites. But I feel a cloud-based one is best like Wikki.com as I own it. There is also weebly.com and Glogster.com Then found out about a treasure of a site called http://teach.classdojo.com which is a behavior website to use on my white board all day long every day. IT ROCKS!! This will replace my card-flipping style chart on my wall next year! Class Dojo is an easy way to engage your classroom by recognizing positive behaviors as they happen. Thousands of teachers and their students are using ClassDojo to focus on the positives and make learning fun! This page shows you real-time behavior report cards. You can see point breakdowns and add comments. You can also email or print behavior reports for parents! Thousand of teachers use ClassDojo to create a positive learning environment - add your first class to join them! Thousands of teachers and their students are using ClassDojo to focus on the positives and make learning fun! It was also discussed that many Discovery Streaming educational videos can be found on YouTube. SchoolTube.com is even better as it's already filtered for school use. And TeacherTube is another good one! Today we are creating lessons on Flipped Classrooms, looking at Pinterest for our classroom usage, creating a website among MANY other things. Today is going to be ANOTHER good day! :0)