Hi Carly’s Crew!

This week has been crazy…it seems surreal. Due to the spread of Covid-19, our classes have been moved online. This means that we did a 33 person video call today! It was so much fun and definitely cheered me up in a time where there is a lot of negative news happening. I even introduced the class to my cat, Jafar, and cooked up some eggs and avocado toast while listening to the other groups present their topics.

Zoom would be a super cool tool to use in a classroom, especially in circumstances like this, that prevent students from meeting in person. For example, if a student was sick at home but they still wanted to listen to the teacher, they could watch the whole class from the comfort of their bed. Of course, this process was not seamless. Many people had trouble connecting due to wifi issues and I personally had troubles with how fast my battery was dying. Zoom definitely sucks the battery so it is imperative that you have a charger ready to use.

In a classroom, Zoom could also be used when students need to complete group presentations or conduct interviews. For example, today I will be using Zoom to meet with Ari, Jahniaa and Claire to complete our music project while practicing social distancing.

We also learned how to use Twine which is an interactive story telling (choose-your-own-adventure type stories). I began writing a story about getting ice cream on a summer day but I wasn’t able to get super far into it. I have never had experience creating something like this so it was brand new for me. The hardest part was remembering the codes to create new links, italicize or bold words and anything else. Once I spend some more time working on my story, I will be much more successful. This would be super fun to implement into a Language arts unit for students to get creative!

I’m going to wash my hands now!

Carly 🙂