Class #4 Takeaways

 

edWeb


Our instructor, Barbara Welsford, introduced us to another great resource called edWed. This is a free professional learning community where educators can share their teaching practices and learning styles with other educators through webinars. It is a great platform for schools to present Profesional Learning opportunities for their staff. I am looking forward to taking part in the webinars this summer and learning from other educators about their teaching experiences, especially anything that can give me more insight into teaching more digitally.

Here are a few webinars that I have scheduled for next week:

Packaging Your Digital Assignments: Creating Efficient and Easy-to-Navigate Lessons for Learning at Home

Leading Through Uncertainty: An Emphasis on Social Emotional Wellness

We’re All Teaching Reading: Why Does the Instruction Look So Different?








Unite for Literacy

I am over the moon excited about this resource!

Unite for Literacy is a website that offers FREE (yes free...can you believe it?) books for children. This website being free is not even the best thing about it. The books that are offered are rich in diversity and culture as well as offering the books to be read aloud (bonus!) in multiple languages.

This is such an amazing resource for teachers, parents, and students. I am looking forward to implementing the books in my classroom this fall. I have already told several of my friends with young children about it and they are also very enthusiastic to share it with their children.


“At Unite for Literacy, we picture a world where all children have access to an abundance of books that celebrate their languages and cultures and cultivate a lifelong love of reading.” -Unite for Literacy

Read and Write 4 Google Presentations

I really enjoyed looking at all of the group’s presentation’s on Read and Write 4 Google. It was really interesting to see how everyone choose a different and unique way of representing all the information regarding this excellent tool. I look forward to looking through everyone’s presentation and seeing if I can learn anything else about Read and Write.

I have really enjoyed learning about this resource and by completing this assignment, it has given me the confidence and knowledge to be able to really use this tool with my students and be able to fully get all of the benefits out of it. I am hoping that I will also get to share my presentation at some point with some of my colleagues at my school.