Cassandra+Conger

My name is Cassandra Conger and I teach ninth and tenth grade at North Edgecombe High School in Leggett (Edgecombe County). My goals are to gain a better understanding of how to best implement the 1:1 program in my classroom when my students receive their laptops on January 20th. My biggest challenge is keeping all of the new technology I am learning about straight in my brain, successfully implementing at least a few of the new technologies into my lesson plans and making them work.

Hey Cassandra, It is nice to meet you. Thanks for being my partner for the workshop. They do not usually let me leave my school without another tech person with me as I am not that great with technology.

  What did I take away from the trailfire session? I have always had issues with webquests simply because there was no way to truly track what, if anything, each individual student was getting out of these sessions. Trailfires allows me to ask essential questions, mark material on a website I want to highlight, design "trails" of websites that I have already explored and deemed useful, etc. as well as track student responses to these questions / ect. at each website. My brain is still trying to wrap itself around all of the possibilities and I am sure there are hundreds of other ways to use this tool. I think every teacher should check this one out.

Cassandra--I am still trying to wrap my mind around all this information as well. I am so excited about the possibilities that these free resources are giving us!--Jessica

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