Mrs. Nash's News Blog

Navigate 1- Screen Capture I used the Screencastify chrome extension. This would be great to use in an online classroom because I can show them exactly how reading phrases fluently should be done. Many students still read like a "robot". We are trying to help them read like we talk. Using this program allowed me to show the powerpoint and read it so they would have an example. When students are out, they can look online where I post work and be able to continue from outside the classroom. Here is a link to my video.

I chose to use Google +. I have had some experience using this before since my county is google system. Since I teach young students, the google + community is turned off for student use. I created a group for my coworkers and I to use to communicate and post resources about our brand new reading curriculum. It is impossible for seven teachers to meet all together at the same time for planning. Using this program will allow us to share information learned about our new reading program in one place.  I can share a link to a great resource, create a poll to see if everyone is ready for the next story, and insert from Google Drive.  We can post messages back and forth to each other.  I like how we can all communicate with each other.  I had never set up a poll for others to answer and had to learn how to do this feature.  One thing I think they would add in the future, is to be able to go straight into a google hangout from the google plus community page.  ...