MeganS

My name is Megan Stocker and I am a 7th grade learning support teacher at East Hills Middle School in Bethlehem. I am married and have a 19 month old son who keeps me VERY busy. I have a true love of children and animals and I rode horses since I was 8 years old, though I have taken the last year off. I enjoy taking RTC classes to learn many new ideas for the classroom and meet other educators along the way. I am looking forward to enjoying the rest of the summer with my family but always get excited for the start of a new school year!

Toolbox #1 I signed up for Pinterest and found a lot of useful things. There are some great educational ideas for projects and assignments. I also like the idea of having students create their own pin board. I also explored Edmodo more. Even though I have already used it, I looked into more idea. I would like to use it more for quizzes, polls, and blogs. I signed up for Grooveshark and made a personal playlist but I think it would be great to make playlists for the classroom to go allow with different lessons or activites. Lastly, I feel it would be fun for the students to make fake facebook pages for characters from novels.

Toolbox #2 I looked through all of the resources in toolbox #2 along with TED-ed. I really though TED-ed was a great idea. I think the students would love watching the videos. It is so useful that you can flip in to meet your needs for your lesson. MaryKaye gave me the idea to have the students watch a video for homework the first day a new lesson is taught. Then the students don't practice the problems wrong but still have some homework to hopefully enforce the new skill. Hopefully TED-ed will continue to get more math videos or as I find good ones, I can upload them onto it. I was to spend more time looking at Delicious to see if I can gather good resouces as well. I like the sites to make graphic organizers but I would have to try it out since we already have the kids use inspiration. I wonder what the differences would be.