Oh Hey Math

Blog Post: After reading about concepts related to excellence in professional practice, including harnessing the power of digital tools and backchannel communication techniques, summarize in a blog post how you can use one or more of the shared ideas to develop and share more robust communication with your school's stakeholders. How could you transform some less effective or inefficient forms of communication through the use of digital tools? "Backchannel"- I have never heard of this word, but after formally being introduced to it through this courses readings, it looks like I've been a participant of many backchannels as well as delivering the opportunity of being a part of one to many of my students! Hello Backchannel, my name is Silvia Manoukian, and it's nice to be formally introduced to you today... :) Backchanneling is a marvelous tool to gather everyone's voices- teachers use this on a regular basis to ensure that the few "vocal" students ...

While I am quite new to blogging, it has been a valuable experience to get a blog started for this course and to search and browse through many other professional educator’s blogs. I have followed just a few blogs in the past, honestly, most have been about mathematic education or about cooking, and I have gained many insights and enhancements both in the educational content that I serve to my classes and the hospitality that I serve to those who are in my home.   There are many benefits to those who follow blogs that are of value to them- one can gather pertinent information and relevant resources, and it is often worth the time to subscribe to blogs that add value to one’s life.   It’s clear that the uses of educational blogs are endless- one can gather resources, lesson plans, suggestions, and insight that were rarely available to the public before. One of my favorite qualities of educational blogs are ones that incorporate reflective blogging, like Da...