Mr. Tabay

As an educator you strive to show your students the proper way to complete assignments, by modeling what is expected.  As an educator this needs to be done when it comes to social media posts, and developing an online identity.  We stress to students anything posted on the internet is permanent, and we as teachers need to remember this advice.  Below is my 10 Step plan to create a positive online identity. 1. Separate  My Professional and Personal Accounts -When I joined social media, especially Twitter almost 10 years ago, it was new.  Not knowing much about it, I just signed up to see what all the buzz was about.  Through those 10 years of using Twitter morphed into more a connecting with others in both the education world and the football coaching world but one thing I never did was create a separate account for my professional and personal use. I definitely need to separate my personal and professional activities on there. 2. Model the Behavior- I ...

What is a digital footprint?  I feel many in today's society have heard this term but do not fully understand it or understand the ramification of this.  A digital footprint is the trail you leave online.  Many may  say so what, I do nothing bad on the internet.  Yet your digital footprint is permanent, and in today's world of everything being technology based it is very easy for people to find out about your online habits. The problem with today's technology addicted world is that many companies will sell your search history, shopping habits, and your social media practices to other companies so that they can push unwanted ads, spam, and other malicious content to you while online.  Teens and adults both do not take their online habits seriously.  High school students today more than ever need to protect themselves online because their past histories can comeback to haunt them when it comes time for job interviews, college admissions, and scholars...

The two pictures attached are of my tweet deck with the 5 hashtags I follow.  The first hashtag is a football coaching hashtag  I follow for coaching tips, conversations, and other communications with coaches.  The other four are education specific.  Each of the hashtags are specific to an interest I have and are relevant to my classroom.  If you are not an offensive line coach the items I learned with the first hashtag would probably have no relevance to you so I will focus my learning on the other four.  The #PBL is helping to gear my classes to becoming more project oriented.   From this hashtag I have gained a lot of learning about what a true project based class is as well as ideas that others are using in their classrooms.  The #GoogleEdu is a tag i follow to get a quick idea on how to be more effective using Google products in my classroom or quick tips on using Google Classroom.  As for all four of the education hashtag I follow...

Graphical Representatio n When I decided on how to create my graphical representation of this three concepts, I was not quite sure how to do.  I decide to create a infographic through Piktochart.  Each picture represents what I feel are the key components of the each concept for this week. Each of these concepts are connected through the idea of expanding your knowledge through the use of making connections, collaborations, and the use of technology at our disposal. I selected the image for Communities of Practice (CoP), because when looking at the definition of CoP the image is perfect.  The concept behind CoP's is when a group comes together with the same goals and works to reach these goals.  According to Wenger, learning is central to humans, and learning takes place in a social environment.  From these interactions, a person will develop his/her own identity within the group.  These interactions will lead to greater learning and under...