"Blogs for Educators"

Looking over other teacher blogs was really interesting. I was especially intrigued when looking over Nancy J Johnson’s blog.  She is currently an 8^th grade teacher at the Singapore American School. This stood out to me because I feel teaching abroad is sometimes overlooked by up and coming teachers, at least by me anyway. It would be amazing to see the world while doing the profession that you chose. Another thing that was fascinating in Johnson’s blog was how she was a professor at Western Washington University prior to her move over seas. The wide spectrum of students she must have taught and the different denominations is incredible.  She must be very versatile in not only her teaching methods, but within her own personality as well.

There has always been technology in math, at least calculators. Now with the technological push in our society there have been some new innovating ways to teach certain lessons.  One method in which we as a class learned was by “glogging.”  We made “glogs” which is a program where students can make their own posters. Students can add graphics, videos, audio, etc. to their poster when grasping the lesson’s learning outcome. As a class we made posters based on the math unit of geometry.  We put together glogs that consist of obtuse/acute/right angels, symmetry, parallel lines, and quadrilaterals.  All these aspects of geometry were present and this was a creative and interactive math lesson.