After I watched the video and read the article on resident visitor typology I started to think about my online presence and how I interact with others online. I found that most of my profession and personal interactions were very separated, although I had some online platforms that I use that bridged both my personal and professional life.
I tend to use Google Drive as a collaboration tool in my classroom and find it very effective and easy to use, which is why I probably use it as well as a tool to connect with parents on the teams that I coach for my kids hockey and baseball. There are a couple pieces of software that I find I use quite often in both my professional and personal life, and that is ‘seesaw’ and ‘coaches eye’. I use seesaw in class as a way for students to share their ideas and collaborate on projects, but my daughters 2nd grade class also uses it to connect with parents to show the days accomplishments, it is very effective in both regards. Another tool I use in my carpentry class is coaches eye, a video app that allows you to slow down video’s and annotate them using voice-overs and drawing tools. I use it to take videos of students using tools and then to share them with the class and note proper and safe techniques of tool use. I also use this quite often in hockey and baseball as a coach as it allows me to slow down video and pinpoint and isolate various techniques in our players. The kids really like to see their actions in slo-mo and it is a very effective way to show them what things they need to work on.
On thing you may notice is the cluster of tools in the bottom right of my graph, these represent teaching tools that I have been using over the past few years that I have integrated into my classroom. This is not all of the tools that I have tried to integrate, but these are some that I use consistently.
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