I’m not exactly sure what we’re supposed to be posting on with this particular blog post…obviously social media, but I don’t know whether we’re supposed to be focusing our use of it or what we think about it.  My use of social media is primarily through the Moodle courses that my students use.  They participate in forums and wikis through Moodle.  I have started using Remind this year, although I guess that doesn’t really qualify as social media.  Edmodo would be more along the lines of what is meant by that and while I have been signed up for Edmodo for a couple of years, I have never actively used it with my classes.  I have to be honest in that I find it jumbled.  I have the same issues with Facebook, so it’s not an isolated complaint.  I have tried to turn some of my students onto the educational opportunities available through tumblr, since I am working for a nonprofit called SciNote which posts science articles and answers to questions on it.

I guess all of this is to say that I don’t use social media as much as I should.  I’ve struggled with some technology issues this year as I don’t even usually have internet access in my classroom.  I’m looking forward to reading some of the other blogs on this particular topic to see if I can find some inspiration to start incorporating more social media aspects into my classes.

I have used lots of different tools and ideas that I learned during my Kenan experience so far this year (apps, questioning techniques, references to my own lab experiments), but I haven’t started my Kenan-based lesson plan.  I’ve arranged for my mentor to come visit my class on October 20 and I’ll be starting my lesson plan (which is really a long-term group project) earlier on in October.  I still need to work on rubrics and refine the whole thing, but I’m anxious to see how it goes.  I’ve also started the Data Literacy training through NCCAT and I’m looking forward to applying some of the things I learn from that to interpreting how my students respond to the project.