Staff developers need to be/have:
  • Organized
  • Prepared
  • Calm
  • Give multiple ways to respond
  • Personable
Staff developers make the content pertain to the guests.  So many times we go to a training and ask ourselves, "Why am I here?"  The developer of the PD was obviously not meeting your needs.  It is important to find out what a person needs out of a class and then work to achieve those goals.

Weebly and tagxedo are both really fun apps for students.They allow students to create while using other skills like critical thinking, brainstorming, etc.  In the activity we did, many teachers focused their word clusters on the basic idea of learning.  This goes to show that no matter what a teacher is teaching their main goal should be the idea of "Is my student learning what they should be learning?"

My favorite app that I learned about this week was app shopper.  I spent a lot of time figuring out how to use appshopper this weekend, and I have already told many people about it. It is a great app to use when you are looking for ideas of good apps.