Archive for September, 2012

Education News Article

Hi there everyone,   I came across this news article while roaming around online and I thought that it was rather interesting and relates to the generation of teachers we will be.  The article talks about the idea of “friending” your child’s teacher on facebook. I know we all have facebooks and very soon we […]

Our first week!

This week we started to talk about our memories of social studies and language arts from elementary school. One thing that stuck out to me in this conversation was how excited everyone was when we talked about our past teachers who took us on field trips or dressed up as historical characters or recognized our […]

Welcome to the TLC blog!

This semester the members of EDU 372/374, “Methods for Teaching Language Arts & Social Studies,” class will be using this blog as an extension of our classroom community and as a way to explore how social media can be used to address new Minnesota Standards for English Language Arts in the K-5 classroom. We’ll talk […]