Web Presence

Today's Goal: To collaborate with a group of awesome teachers from Seward Public Schools to teach how to use Google Sites to middle and high school teachers. You must teach well enough to have them launch their sites onto the district site.

Results: SLAAAAM DUUUNK! TOUCHDOWWWWN!! GOOOOAAAAALLLL!!!!!!

You can tell by my use of the caps lock button and the excessive exclamation marks one of two things: I'm definitely an elementary teacher OR that my team totally dominated our goal today.  The latter of the two is correct.  Okay. Well. They're both true.  

Being on an awesome team by collaborating with Josh, Julie, Brittany, and Laura, we were able to help out over 30 teachers from the middle and high schools get acquainted with Google Sites and help build their digital presence.  We even rocked the RtI tiers to accommodate teachers' learning styles: whole group, one-on-one, and small group.  Yep. You read that right. The inner teacher in us taught using teaching methods that work. Period. Done. BAM!

I know from experience how it is difficult to start a new blog or a website.  We feel the pressure from the "Pinterest Teacher" blogs and websites. You know what kind I'm talking about.  The types you wonder, "Do they really sleep? Or do they just have an IV pack of straight up Red Bull?!?"  We all simply must remember that the hardest part of anything is jumping off and doing it. Jump in the deep end of the pool and swim.  Our goal is not to be a "Pinterest Teacher" community but rather to have a website or blog that communicates effectively with our students, parents, families, and communities.  We are here for our students.  As long as we do what works for us and our students then we're doing an awesome job.  We have a lot of great teachers, some of whom I just met today, that really took Google Sites and embraced it. It was fun to watch them play with templates, add tool bars, subheadings...the list could go on and on.  

Go Bluejays!