#ETCoached Blogging Challenge - Week 5

This challenge has been great. I love reading other's blog to keep up with trends across the nation and/or world. 

I plan to keep blogging by participating in other blogging challenges, sharing presentations as well as bout the awesome things I see our teachers doing in classrooms. 

#ETCoach Blog Challenge Week 3

As an Ed Tech Coach, I love sharing cool new tech tools to engage students and transform teaching and learning. 

1. Hootsuite - This tool allows users to manage multiple social media networks and profiles. 

2. Canva - This tool allows you to create infographics, flyers and more. The tool is very intuitive and simple. 

3. Adobe Spark - Adobe Spark lets users create and share pictures and videos. This is a great tool for digital storytelling.

4. Plickers - This is a great tool for classrooms without a response system. Plickers require printed plicker cards and a teacher mobile device. It is great for formative assessments or exit tickets.

5. SMART Notebook - This tool allows teachers to create engaging and interactive lessons for students using the SMART board. 

#ETCoaches Blog Challenge Week 2

My current role is that of an Ed Tech Coach. This year we are having a shift in our role and responsibilities. Change can be hard initially, but is welcomed. 

Strengths It is hard for me to talk about strengths since I tend to be very tough on myself. However, I feel I am intuitive and have a good sense of what is going on within the system and it's functioning. 

Challenges A huge current challenge is the transition of our roles & responsibilities at work. We are shifting our role to a more global role to make large systemic changes rather than working 1:1 with teachers or putting out one fire at a time. I love our changes, but when just a few people are making the change and the system is not, it makes it VERY difficult.

I love my role in terms of sharing the good news of our district. I do have the opportunity to work in schools and I get to see the awesome things teachers are doing to transform learning!

#ETCoaches Blog Challenge Week 1

Hello and welcome to my Innovations & Expectations blog. My name is Mandy Green and I am currently and Ed Tech Coach on Oklahoma. My other roles in education have included:

• K-2 teacher
• High school counselor
• Special Education counselor
• Career Tech counselor

When I taught Kindergarten, I had a blog I used as a weekly newsletter. Then as I moved to 2nd grade, it changed and became a place to showcase the cool things we were learning and creating in class. Then as my role shifted to educational technology, my blog has shifted with it! This blog is, currently, a collection of thoughts, ideas and cool things I see in schools. 

I am excited to participate in the #ETCoaches PLN and look forward to learning and expanding my worldview.