Day In Day in the Life Of A Connected Classroom (Kristen Wideen)
Kristen Wideen is a grade 1/2 teacher in Windsor, Ontario Canada. She says: “I love to collaborate with others and incorporate technology into my classroom. “
EDITOR NOTE: This is an abridged version of Mrs. Wideen’s postfor May 22, 2013.
I had a group of teachers visit my classroom last week. They were there to see how we incorporate technology in meaningful ways into the primary classroom. I had a couple of teachers ask me if I had a schedule of what we do throughout the day to give to them. Alas, a blogpost is born. So, here it is, a day in my room without you actually having to visit me! (I am taking the day that my visitors came in and writing what we did that day)
8:30 Entry
Students enter school and write a short message in their agendas. On Tuesdays and Thursdays students read or give mini lessons to their parents on the iPads in our Learning Commons. For those students that don’t have a parent come in they may blog, read independently or with a partner until 9:00. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays students choose to blog, read or write until 9:00. Many students chose to blog about our new tadpoles in our classroom that day.
9:00 Twitter Review – Reading Mini Lesson
If there are any mentions or interesting tweets on the class Twitter account, we read the tweets and respond. On this particular day, we had some interesting