Access to Literacy Class

Class 2 “Never stress over something that you'll forget about next week. And if it's not something you'll forget, then you can't change it anyway” (p. 3, poemofquotes.com). Stress, stress, stress is all I felt the night before and the morning before class started. I was anxious and worried because it seemed like every time I tried to upload something I had created on one of the apps, it wouldn’t work. I was extremely frustrated and stressed to the hilt. Watching and talking to a lot of the people in class before class started, I realized mostly everyone felt the same way. This made me feel a little better and a little less alone. Usually when I am feeling this stressed out, I don’t say anything to the instructor. I just continue to feel stressed until the assignment eventually gets finished. Today, I thought to myself, if I was the instructor, I would want to know how my students were feeling. So I explained to Barbara that I was feeling stressed out about the ...

Class One: AT- Access to Literacy April 22, 2017 We began the day with class introductions using three new apps: Chomp, Videoscribe, and Telligami. It was an extremely fun way to get to know each other and learn apps that could be utilized in our classrooms as well. I could see using these apps in the classroom for many purposes, class introductions, character sketches from novels, and biographies on historical people to name a few. Next we watched the Ted Video, The Myth of Average, and while I had seen this video previously, it always gives me insights into my own teaching. The biggest takeaway from this video was the quote, "You design classrooms for nobody, when you design on average". It reminds me of how important it is to take all students' learning styles and capabilities into play when designing lessons. Whether it comes to teaching style, materials used, or how students show knowledge. The video also reminds me of an old poem I heard when I was younger call...