Texas Teacher Tired

Throughout the last five weeks, I was challenged to dive deeper into tech 2.0 tools. Of course, I use some technology apps in my classroom, and I have been personally practicing with some of the trending social medias and apps. Nonetheless, I had never really sat down and just researched and moved from app to app to app. Having a discussion with fellow peers about this really enlightened me to all of the new and engaging software available for classrooms.  While I came across many fun and engaging apps, the one important aspect that I decided to keep up front was how it could align to our curriculum. I was very impressed with the apps like Boddle , that allows you to chose the TEKS structure, assuring me that the skills being practiced were intentional. I also really like the student diagnostic features. While picking out the TEKS and assigning certain students one on one skills practice is more my preference, I see the benefits of diagnosing the students and allowing the program t...

Hyper for Hyper Docs I never realized there was a name for the way our classroom was evolving. I knew after the pandemic that teaching would never be the same, but now I don't know how I would teach without it.  I think back into my beginning years as a teacher.. ~que the dreamy music~ how did we operate without having slides? It was much harder. I mean, we had slides.. like you could make a "death by PowerPoint" presentation, but that just wasn't the vibe. I guess we just wrote on the white board, projected worksheets with the doc. cam. and stood up there and talked. I remember when the district was trying to force us to use apps and incorporate technology like padlet and seesaw . At first the task was daunting. Not only was I doggy paddling through the days, but now you want me to learn something new, teach it, and use it daily in the classroom?! 2025- If the internet goes down, we may as well go home. We are delivering daily instruction with the use of HyperDocs....