Intro Blog: Am I a blogger now?

Hey all,

My name is Dan Santha, and I am currently a student service teacher with Prairie Valley School Division in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. I have taught in Fort Qu’Appelle for the last 4 years.  Prior to teaching I was a youth care worker and leader at a group home in Regina for almost 15 years. I am born and raised in Regina and I have lived here all my life.

I try and keep things somewhat fresh in my classroom when it comes to technology.  I have used many different platform and webpages during my time in the classroom.  Kahoot, Mentimetre, gimkit, and many other platforms. Google slides is one of my favorite.  I always have a welcome message on the slides when students enter my classroom.  Along with those slides I always had a riddle for my class to start the day.  I felt like this was some out of the box thinking to get my students minds working first thing.

My new favorite website to use in the classroom is classroomscreen.com (bit.ly/3ZNW3UH).  This website has a central hub that you can add widgets to.  Some of the widgets include, notes, visual timer, timer, traffic light, sound level meter, dice, ect.). This is a great webside to have on the board throughout the lesson or day where students can reference the time, you can leave notes on the screen. There is an endless amount of uses for this website.

In the description for this blog post, we were asked to give our opinions on blogging.  If I am honest, I dont really have an opinion on blogging.  I created a blog in 2017 for another university class and that is about the extent of my blogging experience.  Although, I am always willing to try new things, even if it is a second time around.