For the first professional development session I attended we worked with a speaker who had a lot of experience with blogs. He shared with us his personal experience with having an educational blog that he shares with his peers, parents, and students. He said that it was a great way to express your ideas, opinions, and connect with your students. We then made our own blog on Tumblr and started creating our online blogging presence that we will be able to use with our students. I learned a lot about being able to connect with your students through the use of a blog and how it is important to have a public space where other teachers and parents can see who you are and what is important to you as a teacher.
For the second professional development session I attended we worked with Anne Beck to understand more about iMovie. This is a great tool to my videos for your classroom and the students are able to have a lot of creativity for a variety of assignments. The product that we had to create during the session was an iMovie trailer. We were able to be as creative as possible, we selected the "scary" theme for our trailer and created a trailer about the dreaded AP Chemistry test that high school students have to take. I think that iMovie will be a great tool to use in my future classroom to assess the students learning.
For the second professional development session I attended we worked with Anne Beck to understand more about iMovie. This is a great tool to my videos for your classroom and the students are able to have a lot of creativity for a variety of assignments. The product that we had to create during the session was an iMovie trailer. We were able to be as creative as possible, we selected the "scary" theme for our trailer and created a trailer about the dreaded AP Chemistry test that high school students have to take. I think that iMovie will be a great tool to use in my future classroom to assess the students learning.