Day 2 Reflection

In these two days I have heard about Sophia, YouTube, Edmodo, ITunes, Kahoot, and more.  In a kindergarten classroom we use YouTube I’m going to say a couple times a week, but if I can find additional resources in Sophia than I will definitely be exploring that.  The most important thing that I learned for my grade level is how to use the flipped classroom technique not so much for my students but for my parents.  Most times our parents, especially the parents of bilingual parents, have not finished school or gone to school here in the U.S.  so they don’t know what their students may be learning.  The fear of not being able to help their children with their school work keeps them from getting too involved.  Now if I starting including some YouTube video links perhaps in their weekly newsletter we send out with what their children will be working on for them to look at and use as a tutorial perhaps this could help relieve their fear and help them become more involved with their children’s school work.  I will be using a lesson on vocabulary very similar to the Esperanza activities we do in class for each letter but only do it on a couple letters for the example in our training, I haven’t quite decided what web tool I will be using but it will include some flashcards apps online that will enable me to demonstrate not only the name and sounds but how to write the letters as well.