2 B Collaborate with other educators within the school and district to promote creative thinking and inventiveness using digital tools to engage students in real-world problem solving and learning;

I have collaborated with Liam Coyle who is also using our Haiku LMS. It is very interesting to see both of our sites and how we use the same LMS to teach two very different classes-my reading and literacy class and his grade 7 & 8  Social Studies class. We have both used Haiku for a ‘virtual classroom home” for our classes. We have both used discussion boards within Haiku to have students provide authentic and thoughtful reactions to a discussion prompt that we pose for them to consider and reply to. We have both discussed the proper technical etiquette for such a discussion posting and how it differs from Facebook postings or texting that they do in their social networking sites.

We have also been a source for each other, as needed, to problem solve and figure out an issue on Haiku. We have  collaborated on the use of google docs and sharing them with our students.

As part of the Common Core Language Arts Committee, I have shared a great deal of my digital assignments with other Language Arts teachers.This was an opportunity to show them what I am using digitally to engage  students and also show them what is possible for them. 

I have posted my QR code to my classroom blog on my classroom hall window, so others can also follow my classroom blog.