My name is Danielle Berg and I am the oldest of 4 children. I grew up in Rochester, MN and moved to Bellevue, NE this summer to teach 3rd grade at Peter Sarpy Elementary. This is my second year teaching. I spent last year teaching 4th grade at Wilson Elementary in Owatonna, MN. I love teaching kids and couldn't picture myself doing anything else! I received my B.A. in Elementary Education from Luther College in Decorah, IA.
I come from a generation that grew up on computers and feel pretty comfortable with new technology. I am definitely more compatible with Windows, but also feel comfortable using a Mac. I have had the opportunity to teach using a SMARTboard and an ACTIVEboard. Both are interactive white boards. I am quickly learning how to use my RoverCart. My students love our document camera and have quickly learned how to take pictures of our anoles with it... We have also made a routine of using the RoverCart to listen to and watch a short TumbleBook when we come in from afternoon recess to calm ourselves down. I am eager to learn more about our school's clickers and to implement them into our classroom. I am loving the technology opportunities that are provided by the Bellevue Public School District! I recently took Twitter 101 and learned so much! It was a great opportunity to learn more without having to schedule times to meet as a class. I am excited to see where this blogging class will take me and how much I will learn from it.
I hope to use this blog as an additional communication tool for parents. I created a website through weebly.com and have been getting a great response so far. I would like to take it a step further and have an interactive site that I can update more often. I hope to keep my website more stable, rather than needing to change it continually (with exception to the links). I believe that a blog will help me to create the immediate online communication I am looking for.
Danielle! Great 1st post! I like the colored pencils background! We are so excited that you are so motivated to learn new technology and incorporate it into your classroom!
ReplyDeleteI also tried out Weebly, but I was having trouble with it because I was trying to post large documents. I am so used to Ishare that I gave up. I'm hoping the blog can do the same job, or better.
ReplyDeleteI really like your blog. It is so colorful! I've been searching for a background that is more colorful for my elementary kiddos. Where did you find yours? I too am hoping that I can use my blog as a positive communication tool between school and home. I want it to be a quick way for students to show their parents what we are doing in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving your blog...what fun colors! I agree that Twitter 101 was a great CCU course...I took it too :-).
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