Shelby+Privett



My name is Shelby Privett and I am a senior at Clemson University in Early Childhood Education.I grew up on a farm in Hopkins, South Carolina with my two sisters, who also attend Clemson University. I enjoy running, baking, and reading in my little spare time. Upon graduating from Clemson I hope to travel to Australia and be an au pair for a year Afterwards, I would like to return to the United States and begin my teaching career in a first grade classroom.

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The first resource I found was Educational Blogs. This website is available to teachers and students in order to create and share their blogs with one another. Blogs for Students is a blog that allows teachers to blog and share with their students. Students also have the opportunity to create a blog to share with their teacher. It allows the entire class to have a homepage where they can see each others blogs and read what the other students are up to. The last site, Educational Technology Blogs, is a blog designed by a teacher, Kathy Schrock. Throughout her blog she lists the names of other technology blogs that could be useful to other teachers and educational professionals. As a result of this research, I feel as though there are many more resources available to me to include technology in my future classroom. I hope to have a classroom blog site for my students and I to share our experiences throughout the year and also a place where students can refer to for information about homework, tests, and upcoming events.

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I love Blabberize. This website opens a world of opportunities to not only me as a teacher but more importantly, to my students. With this program children could create small video clips to share with their family and classmates. What child doesn’t love to hear himself talk? The ELA standard 2-5 mentions that students will write for a variety of purposes and audiences. If the class were learning about life processes a group could make a several Blabberizes depicting the life cycle of an animal. They could then share this video with the class as a chance for the class to also see the life cycle of that particular animal. Guiding Principle 5 states that oral language and expression is fundamental to literacy learning and development. Blabberize allows children to do just that. Maybe students don’t have to create one for a particular subject. Maybe they could be given the assignment to just make an assignment and see where their imagination takes them. I cannot wait to use this in my classroom!

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