Collegial Learning Circle Introduction

Carol Satta
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., School #9
Library Media Specialist, K-6


Experience using technology in the classroom

I've dabbled in a variety of technologies. Here are a few samples:

• A tutorial about how to use the EasyBib Add-on to cite sources and create a bibliography.
• A quizlet to review 3rd grade solar system facts.
• Student Google slides presentations on the topic of their choice with samples posted on my School #9 web page.
• A LibGuide about Coding/Computer Programming.
• A book review blog.
• Digital storytelling with Storybird (see sample below).

What I hope to gain during this Collegial Learning Circle

Watch via Google Drive

Watch via Google Drive

It is difficult to find time to collaborate with classroom teachers on projects. I hope this collegial learning circle will afford me the opportunity to work with one or more classroom teachers in similar ways to how Miss Turner and Miss Coakley collaborated with me last year.



Passions/fears in using technology

I like to use technology when it increases our efficiency such as in the case of Google Classroom where the student work is stored in one place and can be accessed by multiple teachers. Technology sometimes helps tailor instruction to individual students such as databases that read text aloud, offer multiple reading levels or languages, increased text size, etc. I think technology can help unleash student creativity as students make videos, create projects with coding, etc.

I fear dabbling in too many devices, platforms, apps, extensions, add-ons, forms of social media, etc., to the point that I do not have the time or energy to utilize the ones best suited for my purposes as I should.

Outside of school

In my free time, I love to be out in nature--especially near the ocean. I took this photo while on a sunset cruise at the Outer Banks in North Carolina.