Twittering to survive practicum
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This document describes an online community called iPrac that was used by pre-service teachers to share experiences, resources, and support during their practicum placements. The community was founded 5 years ago by Dr. Jason Zagami of Griffith University and included features for activity sharing, achievement sharing, attitude sharing, resource sharing, and event sharing. Members of the community used these features to post updates about their daily teaching experiences, seek advice, share lesson plans and websites, and communicate about strikes and weekends. The goal of the community was to help pre-service teachers survive the stress of their practicums by allowing them to virtually connect and support each other through Twitter.
Twittering to survive practicum
- 1. iPrac
- 2. iPrac Twittering to survive Practicum
- 3. Dr Jason Zagami Griffith University
- 5. 5 years
- 6. 3 years
- 16. Activity sharing Achievement sharing Attitude sharing Resource sharing Event sharing
- 17. Activity sharing Achievement sharing Attitude sharing Resource sharing Event sharing
- 18. Activity sharing
- 19. "First full day oh the joys" "Day of marking and writing reflections" Activity sharing "My students are chanting duck, duck, goose.....its causing a riot and I am laughing too hard to stop it!!!"
- 20. Activity sharing
- 21. "Now for a half day/stand up comedy. Should be a good afternoon" "Teaching all day. A bunch of projects to mark should be a fun and exciting night of marking" Activity sharing "Just finished teaching decimals to grade 7's. The class turned into long division. Now to teach technology"
- 22. Activity sharing
- 23. "Making poo today! (helps the students understand the digestive system)....haha" "The nervous system is a hard concept...... Let's try teaching it to 10 year olds!!!!" Activity sharing "About to teach my first math class on percents and fractions going to be 150% awesome"
- 24. Activity sharing
- 25. "Getting observed by the liaison today,wish me luck" "Lesson planning and rubric making all day."" Activity sharing "Taught measurement today. Teaching Ned Kelly tomorrow...or at least Sydney Nolan's interpretation. Should be covered in paint by day end!"
- 26. Activity sharing Achievement sharing Attitude sharing Resource sharing Event sharing
- 28. "Full day going well" "Full day of teaching went well. Loved the fact that it was photo day and I am in the class photo and grad photo." Achievement sharing "Another successful lesson"
- 30. "Testing my behavioural management... witnessed a complete melt down.. throwing chairs, hitting, biting, spitting, yelling...wow what a day!" Achievement sharing "A teacher of many years thought my artwork was fabulous, ya I'm that good"
- 32. "Math lesson was awful but grammar made up for it" "complex sentences you will be the death of me" Achievement sharing " I got in trouble for using I'd too much :P" "Worst day"
- 33. Activity sharing Achievement sharing Attitude sharing Resource sharing Event sharing
- 34. Attitude sharing
- 35. "Liking sports day today! Sitting under the teachers lounge all day. Gotta love the teaching lifestyle!!!!" Attitude sharing "well getting there, preps can be little rat bags but ya gotta luv em!! tomorrow will be a fun day!! getting hooked on teaching,yay!!"
- 36. Attitude sharing
- 37. "A kid just said her grandpa is dying this Christmas so she could get coloured paper to draw on. wow! :P" Attitude sharing "'Miss XXXXX, you look beautiful today, you look like a princess' awww i love prep"
- 38. Attitude sharing
- 39. "Hey guys, what a blast. 32 little faces staring up at me as I indoctrinate them with utter crap!" Attitude sharing "One week down, 5 to go. I *heart* prac =)"
- 40. Attitude sharing
- 41. "WE had no closure today, a full days teaching and my bed sounds like a holiday destination I am not going to enjoy for a while!" Attitude sharing "week two done! preparing for my full day on monday... what a weekend"
- 42. Attitude sharing
- 43. "I am going to cry tomorrow, Miss XXXXX. Don't leave me!!" "Friday is my favourite day of the week!" Attitude sharing "Looking forward to a big taste of home this weekend...." "Now...drinking and recovering."
- 44. Activity sharing Achievement sharing Attitude sharing Resource sharing Event sharing
- 45. Resource sharing
- 46. "Any of your schools still doing outcomes based learning? Help required, back in the dark ages here." Resource sharing "Have you guys found any really useful interactive websites for maths?"
- 47. Resource sharing
- 48. "Thank you for the websites. Anyone know a good site to find outcomes like the KLAs" "interactive maths websites: http:// resources.oswego.org/ not a bad one!" Resource sharing "http://bit.ly/IgOJ1 not bad for area/perimeter" "XXXXXX try enchantedlearning.com.au"
- 49. Activity sharing Achievement sharing Attitude sharing Resource sharing Event sharing
- 50. Event sharing
- 51. "The weekend went by way to fast. Still have so much work this week. The strike will come in handy to get things done" Event sharing "needs more sleep.. thank goodness for the strike!!" "Enjoying the strike!"
- 52. Event sharing
- 53. "good day off... now mentally preparing for my half day of teaching, and its raining! Not sure how this rain will affect the kids attention spans" Event sharing "No power? No problem... Nap time!!!! Stay dry Gold Coast! =)"
- 55. Practicum Stress 5 point scale
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