Badges Worth Bragging About

I earned two badges this week. That would be a record for me. Woot woot! The first was for participating in an outstanding free professional development opportunity that was inspiring and motivating. The webinar is recorded if you're interested. It was sponsored by EdTech Teacher webinars, "Connecting & Collaborating in Elementary Classrooms." They have more coming up this month on Tuesday's that I'm sure will be just as fantastic. Thank you Samantha Morra, Holly Clark and Beth Holland. 

I say that I "participated" in the webinar but I could have earned the badge for just sitting there like a lump on a log. I chose to dive in. It's hard for me to jump in but it is getting easier. Sometimes if I chime into a backchannel, I feel like everyone already knows it or someone else is about to share it so I should wait. Working on participation. Even back in grammar school I disliked participation grades. I just wanted the real earned grade. Connecting and collaborating is a skill I am working on. So far so good I think.

By the way, ChatWing was used in this webinar. I don't care for it too much because I could never stretch the window. I'm sure it's operator error. I felt like a couple times I was missing out on an interesting comment/resource/idea.

The second badge I earned this week is priceless. A student awarded it to me for teaching. #youmatter!

Zachary, a third grader, awarded this Good Citizen Medal to me for teaching him about iPads. It made my day!