Callie in Tally

TEACHER CLASSROOM PAGES I chose to look at the teacher pages from my elementary school, Tatum Ridge Elementary School, in Sarasota, Florida. I loved Tatum, and thought it would be fitting to use their teacher pages for this assignment.  PAGE ONE: Shannon Wynne, 5th Grade Mrs. Wynne was my third grade teacher! In her class, we performed a play every year, and she was such a fun and animated teacher. There isn’t much information available to the public: how many years she’s been teaching, her degrees, and the atmosphere of her classroom.  PAGE TWO: Jackie Davenport, 2nd Grade Mrs. Davenport was my brother’s second grade teacher, and her daughter is one of my friends from high school. Her page is a little different from Mrs. Wynne’s. She includes how long she’s been teaching and her degrees, but she also talks about how much she loves teaching about how she has always wanted to be a teacher. The information is dated, as her daughter has graduated now and her ...

These past two weeks, I have been tossed into the world of social bookmarking! At first, Diigo was incredibly frustrating to use, but after a little bit of practice, I really enjoy using it! I have to write a lot of essays that use sources from online, and it's annoying having to copy, paste, revise, and try to remember which source my information came from. With Diigo, I can highlight and annotate right on the page so I can reference the work and my original thoughts later. And, if I have to do a group project, this would also be super helpful when finding and analyzing sources. I think I'm going to be using Diigo in the future! I have really enjoyed blogging so far! I like to journal and write about what's going on, so writing about things I'm learning in class has been relatively easy. However, I don't necessarily enjoy some of the topics I have to write about. They tend to be very specific at times, and then I feel like I can't write fully about what I...

Hey y'all! This week, I have created my blog using VoiceThread. You can watch it HERE . Enjoy, and have a great week! PS: Happy Valentine’s Day! This work is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License .

I looked at the ELA standards for 9-10 grade, and I was surprised at how many of the standards I think I could tackle! The first standard (determining meanings of words) and the third standard (looking at the same story in different mediums and analyzing them) were two that stuck out to me. Not only do I enjoy doing both, but they are things I happen to do often in some classes that I am currently taking. The resources they provided were also nice to look at, as I can incorporate them into my classroom for more interactive learning. However, one standard in particular caught my eye as something I need to work on— integrating quantitative data and technical analysis. I have never been great at analyzing data, so that will be one thing I have to work on as I further my education. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of content available through CPALMS! There a vast amount of resources for all grade levels and subjects, as well as links to standards you should be hitting. As a f...

I have had extensive experience with Microsoft Word as a student. My elementary school had computer classes where I learned the basics of all the Microsoft programs, and I continued to learn things as I continued to use Word from teachers, friends, and YouTube. I have mostly been able to use Word to write papers, take notes, and create posters and newsletters. Most of my teachers have used Word for study guides or creating homework, quizzes, and tests, not really branching out and using it in a creative way. I think this is a common theme with educators today: they would much rather stay in their comfort zone rather than experiment when it comes to technology. In many of my classes in high school, the only talk about copyright we had was when we talked about plagiarism. We learned how to cite sources in MLA, and that was it. When it came to pictures and images, unless it was a graph or some sort of image that was to be used inside of a paper, teachers didn't really care whe...