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I learned that Anthony Capps is a third grade teacher in Baldwin County at Gulf Shores Elementary School. Mr. Capps and Dr. Strange talk about a lot of different technologies that are available and used in Baldwin County. One thing they talk about was project-based learning. I would love to use project-based learning in my classroom because it will allow for the students to become more engaged in what they are doing. It also gives the students a chance to broaden their learning capabilities. Another thing Mr. Capps and Dr. Strange talked about was iCurio. iCurio is a filtered web browser that bring up safe websites for children to browse through. I think this is a wonder thing to use in the classroom. By using iCurio, you would not have to wonder what your students are looking at on the internet or monitor them. This would simply cover it for you. Dr. Strange also said that it is important to be a learner if you are to be a teacher. I agree with this statement because everything around you is always changing as a teacher. You will always be challenged to learn new things.
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  1. UnknownFebruary 25, 2015 at 4:55 PM

    You should have received an email last week about what is required in ALL blog posts. You might want to look back over that. All blog posts require links and need to be a decent length. Several resources were given to you this week that you could have discussed in more detail. Good, but brief post.

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  2. Allie Brooks EDM 310 BlogMarch 1, 2015 at 9:54 PM

    Hi Kristina, your blog post this week was very interesting! Your writing was very creative and informative and I really enjoyed reading your post! I was more interested in iCurio when I watched all the videos for this week so I can understand why you chose to write about it! Great post!

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