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**Seminar #1:**
__**An Educator's Social Media Guide**__ I joined Twitter my junior year of high school, I deleted my account my sophomore year of college. I made this decision due to my lack of tweeting. In high school it was a way I could see who was with who, to post inside jokes, or "subtweet" about someone. It was an immature and wasteful way to spend my time. My junior year professor Garbutt incorporated Twitter into his lesson. Students would post answers to his questions, answer each others, and reflect on readings using an assigned hashtag. When I created a twitter again, I only used it for his class. Once I read the senior methods course overview, I decided to add a little bit more to my Twitter profile (a picture, background, etc).

Before reading Aaron's article, I thought I understood Twitter down to the core. After reading, I realize a lot of the site has changed. I had no idea there was a chat room section of Twitter. it seems interesting and it would be fun to be apart of-even if that means not participating, but reading and trying to dig deep into the responses. I was surprised by all the other apps outside of Twitter Aaron uses. I had never heard of Nuzzel, but really liked the idea of it. It would be really beneficial for teachers to decide what articles are best for her students to read or what to read to incorporate in their classroom. I didn't really like Buffer. I think it's a waste of space and time to get an app that decides when to post for you. Maybe I'm wrong, I just don't really see the point.

My takeaway from the article, was to open myself up to the teacher/educators world and participate in engaging conversations. I really liked the YouTube video included in the article. The video described investors not realizing how impactful there invention is. We can help and grow with the collaboration of other educators if we engage in these talks.

I liked how you shared your personal experience with Twitter and then shared how the article broadened your understanding of how the tool could be used. I also like that you evaluated the tools presented in the article. I definitely agree with you that collaboration is the best way to improve yourself in this profession. Have you found in groups to follow on Twitter or other online supports to help you during student teaching or your first year?

This article was an eye opener. I was a high school senior when Instagram came out. It has been really interesting to see how much much the app has evolved. I babysit for a family who has two young girls. One is in middle school and I see some of the examples from article with her account. She uses the "1-10 personality rating" in exchange for likes. She has told me if she's mad at her friend then she unfollows her on Instagram and won't follow her again until they make up. They have accounts to show who follows you back and it alerts you to tell you when they have unfollowed you. I can see how this can be distracting in schools. As a future teacher I will address this petty issues in class. I remember being in middle school and the drama that came with Myspace. I feel like even if its not Instagram when I am a teacher there will be another social media account. It's important to be aware, and discuss in class with the students what is appropriate and how these things make people feel. In the end, girls will be girls and they will always find a way to do these things.
 * The Secret Language of Girls on Instagram: **

__**Online Personal Identity:**__ I don't have an online identity in the education world..yet!! I do see my online identity changing. I use to want everything to be super private and hidden from my future students, co-workers, and parents. Now that I've read these articles I don't mind having a website for students and parents to collaborate with me outside the classroom. As of now I am apart of Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, VSCO, and Twitter. My Twitter is strictly for my methods courses and for my future classroom. In Educational Psych my professor had the class respond to a question via Twitter. It was a cool way to get the class thinking, and I would consider that in my future classroom. I don't think I'll use VSCO or Pinterest in the classroom. Facebook seems to have died down among the younger generation. It would be nice to have a private group on Facebook in my future class, but if not I would like a google class to all communicate and collaborate on.

I was exactly like you when I first started. I thought essentially that no news is good news. But in this day and age being invisible online is almost as sketchy as actually having something sketchy - especially for an educator who should be leading kids into the future! What things are you a part of now online? What steps do you plan to take in the future to improve your online identity? Why do you think those would have a positive impact? Please add more detail.

=**Online Personal Identity Presentation:**= https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/presentation/d/1jMPczrdutL89w6xwkhe-wkmB_UDK8XL22t8wx4IRg6I/edit?usp=sharing

**Rubric:**
https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/document/d/18_fistkBqueojclcI9DJ7yKgi4Y4Kq9RZ7HR6jUQlQw/edit?usp=sharing

**September 19, 2016 (Seminar #4)**

 * What are your takeaways? How do they help you think about your own teaching? If applicable, what questions do they raise for you? **

Reading Shoffner's article brought me back to my early middle school days. She opens her blog discusses the students who handwritten papers versus the ones who typed and printed them out. I was always the one who hand wrote my papers. It's funny because it made me realize, I don't remember when handwriting papers stopped being an option. But, she is right. now the internet is my go to. I ask Google everything, and I expect answers for everything. "I quickly grasped that interest in technology was not the point of learning about education technology. Interest in student learning with, by, and through technology was, however, as our assignments, readings, and discussions demonstrated." I really liked this quote because she can differentiate technology and its uses. In my CT's school they have BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Even though they don't use Instagram in the classroom, they use Google Drive, Google Classroom, and she has a Twitter set up just for her SS classes with reminders, updates, fun facts, etc.

I totally empathize with expecting Google to have answers for me. I think one of our goals as teachers is to try to help students work through the questions that Google cannot answer for them. They're always the more interesting questions anyway, I think. Please add to your response by reflecting on the other two articles in the assigned reading.

**Article 2:** Instagram in the Classroom-I really like the idea of creating a private Instagram for parents and other community members. Posting project pictures to showcase their work would be fun for all followers to see. I also like having a student of the week. However, it’s important to ensure every student is featured once before repeating students. It could make students feel left out and that is the last thing I would want. I love the instagram for the classroom article, and if my CT allows it- I want to create one next semester! **Article 3:** Enhancing ELA Ed with Digital Video is a great way to incorporate video into the classroom. In high school there were so many times we would read a book then watch the movie. This gave me and many other students the opportunity to not read, but watch the film. Ostrander (2003) wrote that “a viewer of film has to do little work, other than stay awake to complete the cinematic image” (p. 35). But it is important to use them still especially for visual learners. I am a visual learner so I would like to incorporate video in my classroom. I think I would want students to read a book then make a book trailer. This would be a great way to analyze what students learned and if they read.


 * I am enrolled to attend Dr. Cannon's edTPA bootcamp February 4th, 2017**

September 19, 2016 (last week's in class work) //- Write a brief reflection on the on the tech resources a) at your school, b) that your CT is using, c) that your CT is having the students use, and d) what is available in the classroom itself. You can post this on your wiki workspace. Let Nicolette and I know once this has been posted.// I don't remember as a student having tech resources in my classroom until high school. I found it easier to understand the material my teacher was teaching and my peers enjoyed doing work. My teachers didn't use Twitter or Instagram like most of my current classes do. My CT uses Google Classroom, Google Slides, Powerpoint, SMART boards, and the school just started BYOD (bring your own device). In the classroom itself there is a smart board, a white board, 3 desk top computers, 1 laptop, and an over head projector.

**Seminar #5 - September 26, 2016**
__Initial Ideas About MSL Electronic Portfolio or Teaching Toolkit__ I like the idea of and MSL Electronic Portfolio. I think it would be a great way to organize all the work I have this semester. I often worry that I will do all this work for my methods courses and then not have them in a safe place to show in any future interviews. In ED 204 Mrs. Baggett had my class make electronic Google Sites. I still have mine and I would enjoy adding to it this year. I also thought about how most of my classmates probably made an electronic portfolio in ED 204. So we wouldn't have to start from scratch learning how to create and edit an online site. In the future I would like my students to use Google Sites so using it this year would help me learn the smaller pieces.

I think an electronic portfolio is a great idea - and there's nothing wrong with building on something you've already started. So, you seem to be focusing this towards future interviews, which is great. What are some categories you would like to include on the website that you think would be important? Please add more detail.

It would be important to include my lesson plans, any unit plans, and to justify why I choose to showcase these in particular. I would also like to include photos of me so my future employer could get a feel of who I am as a person and a teacher. I would like to include what I've learned in all my classes at NCSU, because each of them contribute to who I am as an educator. As awkward as it would be, I'm going to include any teaching videos I have of myself. If I made mistakes I would note what I should've done differently. I would like to also have examples of my projects (I have pictures from old projects).

**Seminar #6 -** **October 3, 2016**
Part I __The MAED English Education Electronic Portfolio Experience Chapter 22.__ 3 takeaways from the reading in terms of thinking about the creation of your own MSL Senior Portfolio or Teaching Toolkit I still like the idea of an MSL Senior Portfolio, but I don't disagree with the beginning of the article. While I do believe the purpose and benefits of an Toolkit or Portfolio would be highly beneficial when applying for teaching jobs after college or in interviews, it is hard to for senior MSL students to pour everything they have into it. Senior year is already jam packed with edTPA and methods courses and some of us still are in ED311 and ED312. I believe this is an assignment we should have been adding to since our first ED class. I personally started a Google site in my first ED class at NCSU and I really liked it. If it were required to add certain sections to it in every class..it would've been more manageable than throwing it together as a major assignment our last year. My Google Site did not incorporate any photos. I really liked the example pictures and I think it makes the portfolio appear more professional and personable when photos are added. I liked how Katie had the photos that all flowed together throughout her portfolio. That's the kind of creative planning that would need to be thought out much before. Page 9 discusses what being a "reflective practitioner" means and how student teachers should reflect on what made their lesson plan work and not work. I think this should be apart of the GoogleSite as well.

Part 2
 * Purpose, audience, possible categories and contents of your website at this point. Also, add possible themes that might guide the design of your website— think in terms of themes that might represent you in some way as a beginning middle grades ELA and/or SS teacher, as well as who you are as an individual **

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 * Purpose**- to model and organize my work through the electronic portfolio. It would demonstrate what I took away from all my MSL courses.
 * Audience**-my methods teachers, and in the future I could use in interviews.
 * Possible Categories/Content**-Unit Plan from 306, Overview Unit Plan Explanation 307, paper from 416, project from ECI 309, etc. Basically all major assignments from past courses. In each should include a reflection and why it was important to us.

I definitely think adding the pictures will significantly influence the visual impact of your portfolio. And I know reflecting can be an exhausting and seemingly endless endeavor (it is), but it is genuinely one of the main things that improves your practice as a teacher. So I think this is a cool way to do it and show other people (future employers) that you are capable of it. I totally agree with you about starting with the portfolio from your first education course and after. This is definitely something I would suggest to Dr. Young for the program so that it could be implemented for future students. Finally, I think sharing your work from previous courses is a good idea, but remember that your portfolio should also be about you as a person - showing your personality and who you are (a biography, your teaching philosophy, etc.). Those are important components - not just what you have done.

=** Seminar #8 **=

** Oct. 17, 2016 **
__Ideas how I could use Language Today in my own teachings:__ 1. I would use Language Today as an educator to stay in the loop on how to teach and for planning fun learning activities. 2. Language Today could also be a really fun way to use technology inside and outside the classroom. I could use the account as an current event activity. Students could pick articles then summarize and synthesize. In class we could all share.
 * ===== I have posted to Language Today 2 times and need 5 more posts. =====

Digital Video Follow-Up: a. My tentative plan is to rent a video camera from the METRC to record myself teaching the classroom. I will also ensure I have either 1 clip that is 20 minutes long uninterrupted or 2 clips that are 10 minutes long uninterrupted. I know students will all be infatuated by the video camera the first few days, so I will bring and set up the camera before I film my final product. I will use iMovie on my Mac to upload the lesson, and YouTube to finalize my clip.

b. I think it would be really use to integrate digital video into my classroom by assigning a project where students act like news anchors and present a current event or a historical event from the past. In an ELA classroom it would be fun to have students record their poems and the teacher could put all the videos together and have a poetry slam in the form of a movie day. This could also be helpful for students who don't like to stand in front of their classmates.

I think using Language Today to plan for instruction is a cool idea. Seeing what students are interested in is a great tool for relevancy. I love the idea of acting like news anchors for current or past events! I think it would really help them internalize the event, but also engage critically with it as they get to decide what to report and how to report it. This could also help them see how the media is inherently biased in the way they decide to report things. Awesome idea.

=STATUS REPORT=
 * Oct. 24, 2016**
 * **I have added all my tabs onto my EP and I re-edited my layout to make it more appealing to the eye-more organized. At the start, I really was anti- tabs. I decided I should include more tabs so everything isn't just crammed into 3 tabs. I created the side navigation so this isn't an option anymore. The top tab page was disorganized. Also, Kerri Brown from METRC told my 311 class that when there is a "more" option on our sites, it is not likely someone will click it.**
 * Oct. 31, 2016**
 * ****Today I added all my example work to my EP. I added files so the work looks organized on the page. I added sub tabs under tabs as well.**** **I also started adding to my rubric now that I know what tabs I will be including.**
 * November 7, 2016**
 * **Today I added descriptions to all my tab pages. I've also re-sized some of my photos to look more appealing. I've re-done my rubric, because I didn't include the tabs we are suppose to have.**