Let's try this again

So yea trying the whole blog thing again!

I went ahead and deleted my old blog because, let's face it, I KNEW NOTHING! Jon Snow actually knew more about teaching than I did (haha nerd humor). Last time I was blogging, I was still in college, and I hadn't started my Student Teaching semester yet. Since then, I've done my semester of Student Teaching, I graduated, I tried looking for a job teaching Science, I got a job teaching Math (funny how life works), I survived my first year in the classroom, I enjoyed a great and much deserved Summer vacation, and now I'm 7 weeks in to my second year of teaching Math. Luckily I'm not an English teacher or that run-on sentence might have killed me.

One of the things I tried to do in my original blog was to talk about technology that's available to use in the classroom. That's still what I want to do, but now that I have ACTUAL CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE there's so much more that I can contribute to my fellow teachers (who I hope are reading this). Since I'm only 23, which makes me the youngest teacher in my department (second youngest teacher in the school *insert Millennial whoop*), I was voluntold that I was the technology person at our Math meetings. I'm not complaining, I LOVE THE INTERNET, technology is awesome, I'm glad that there's something that I can contribute, but there's still so much that I don't know about technology in the classroom (comment if you have any cool website/technology).

Something new that I want to try is also posting how these things work in an ACTUAL CLASSROOM (yea it's probably always going to be in all caps...), and my suggestions on how to change things. Being able to reflect on these things is part of the teaching process, recognizing what changes need to be made to better fit your students. I also want a place to vent, because let's be honest, teachers are almost solely supporting the alcohol industry since the dawn of the classroom. One thing that has taken me until last week to learn, is that you have to get it off your chest or it'll kill you. So be on the look out for ranting posts!

I think that's all I have to say for now, but here's what you can expect in the days and weeks to come:
Upcoming posts

• Kahoot
• Nearpod
• Classdojo
• Socrative
• Pinterest (just the educational section, no recipes)
• Teachers Pay Teachers
• Twitter
• And miscellaneous apps

Thanks and Gig 'em,

Casey O'Hare