JULIA K URBANSKI
Course Project/Cadre 24/Azusa Pacific University
Express Yourself in Words
Blogging
Blogs are less restrictive than tweets. They are
personal pages that can be as long as the creator chooses. People can comment and communicate regarding the topics, but most of the time an email is required before you are allowed to post a comment. On my blog this week, I wrote about my flipped classroom attempts and technology I used to see if the students felt it worked well for them.
If there are certain people or topics you like to read about, you can gather them all together in an RSS feed so
you don't have to go to each one separately. I
have foundit to be very convenient.
Twitter is an online tool where people can post a short
message (140 characters or under) called tweets. Many people prefer this form of micro blogging instead of weeding through long opinions and blogs. Teachers use it to post thoughts and ideas from their classroom and the methodologies that they have tried. Most teachers link their twitter accounts to a full web page with a blog so more detail can be found when wanted. If you create a tweet with a hashtag (ie #flippedclass), then people interested in that topic can easily find it and communicate with one another. I used my twitter account to communicate with my cadremates this week, using hashtags.
I also found several interesting teachers to follow to
read about their ideas and experiments
with new things.
AHA Moment
I have always been hesitant to join Twitter and write my
own blog. Mostly because of time constraints, but also because I don't have a great desire to create exposure on the web. I prefer to swim in my own small pond and be the most effective there that I can be. But I tried them both and I found that I can limit and control the amount of exposure I allow. I set up a comments page on my blog where people must enter a valid email address in order to make a comment. I feel better about my security now and will use them as I feel appropriate for my purposes.
Prayer Connection
This week's reading was from John 11:41-42. Jesus was
about to call Lazarus back from the dead, but these verses focused specifically on his prayer first. He was praying to His Father, but he was doing it for the sake of the people around him. He prayed so they would know that God listened to Him and that God sent Him. Since Jesus came to save people, it was appropriate for Him to pray this way. However, we must be careful because humans must not use prayer in this way. We should not use prayer to make a point, convince others to our way of thinking, etc. Only to point others to God.
Math People I Follow on Twitter
BLOGGER TUTORIAL