Digital Teacher Leader
Courtney Harden
This is my portfolio to publish my journey as a Digital Teacher Leader as I work to transform my classroom into a digital learning lab.
Enjoy!
Board Builder
Web 2.0 Tools
We use Spelling City to play games and help learn spelling patterns in a fun way!
We also use Polleverywhere and Kahoot for a student assessment.
Web 2.0 Tools
I still use Kahoot, Polleverywhere, and Discovery Education for different lessons.
This year I have also added Google Forms and Class dojo. As soon as the students enter my classroom, they scan a QR code which leads them to a Google Form. On the Google Form they will answer a review question which is put in a spreadsheet. I have changed all of the positive and negative points on Class Dojo to specific TEKS. I look at the Google Forms spreadsheet and award either a positive or negative TEK points for each individual student. Because students are scored by specific TEKS on Class Dojo, I can now use it as another data point! I also love using the SOS strategies on Discovery Education. My favorite ones to use are PaperChat, Headbands, and FourSquares. Another example that we have recently done using Discovery Education is a board builder. I have my students a "Menu" of activities. The goal was that they needed to obtain 100 points doing the activity of their choice. This is how I introduced Nonfiction but still reviewed previously taught concepts.