#ntchat and Personal Interest Project

I have decided that my personal interest project is going to be about the use of video and podcasts in the classrooms.  By videos, I mean those made by non-profit organizations and people, not videos made by organizations like History Channel.

I decided to participate in New Teacher Chat this week.  The theme of this chat seemed to be help in general.  Many links were shared as were many resources.  Someone shared ideas they had for behavior modification for her kindergartners.  This can be found at: http://bit.ly/Prf2rO.  The ideas were very cute and clever.  Another shared a list of websites all teachers would find useful.  This can be found at: http://bit.ly/OKJgqx.  Some of these sites include Smithsonian Education and edHelper.  Another person shared a list of Android Apps that teachers could use in education.  This can be found at: http://bit.ly/PZ6jfA.  I do not have a smart phone, but many of these looked interesting to someone who does.

A lot of the chat seemed to be trite phrases and begging to join other chats.  I don't know if there were less opinion-based questions because the people in the chat have less experience, but I was disappointed.  I feel like while many good resources were shared, I did not learn a lot.  The only real question was about thoughts on the Common Core and that led to discussion about an upcoming webinar about Common Core.

I did find some new people to follow though.  I am following Melanie Amburn.  She is an elementary instructional supervisor who provided several interesting links.  I am also following Eye on Education.  While this is not a person, whoever was tweeting for the company was saying interesting things and proving resources.  Finally, I am following Ronnie Gonzalez.  He is a director of technology in Texas.  He shared some interesting hashtags to check out.