Melanie Y Ruiz
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Building the plane…
As this school year gets off to a start, many (if not all) of the educators I work with feel as though it is their first year of teaching all over again. Whether you have 30 years or 3 years in education, welcome to your FIRST year as an online teacher. Many of us have…
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Yet Another Chapter
I suppose books are filled with many chapters and if I am viewing my career as a book, then I should not be surprised to find some chapters are longer than others. My last post here was when I began my career as an administrator with the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District. When I joined…
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A New Chapter
I have been quiet on my blog for many reasons, but the main one being that I was working toward another shift in my career as an educator. I became aware that my position as a Teacher on Assignment was not going to be continued into the next school year, so I was looking at…
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Reflective Writing Club: The Impact of Digital Technologies
Reflective Writing Club Prompt 3: Compare your current professional experiences with your professional experiences at the beginning of your career. Discuss how digital technologies have impacted what you do professionally and how you do it. Has your professional identity shifted at all as a result of the emergence of digital technologies? What about who you…
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Reflective Writing Club: Conferencing
So much for keeping up with new blogging prompts! I blame rewriting my dissertation prospectus and preparing myself for an effective job hunt as I work toward the next phase of my career. I really liked the premise of Michelle Pacansky-Brock’s Reflective Writing Club, so I am going to carry on anyway, even though the…
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Reflection
Through my experience with Edublogs’ EduBlogsClub, I got to know some very interesting and insightful educator-bloggers. One of my favorites was Michelle Pacansky-Brock. Now that the EduBlogsClub prompts are done, she has started The Reflective Writing Club as a professional development offering from @ONE (Online Network of Educators which is the result of a grant…
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You Learn Something New Every Day
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day…a national holiday in the United States. As an educator, I have taught countless 2nd – 5th graders about Dr. King. As I took in all the media coverage about this important holiday today, there was a part of the history behind this holiday that I had been completely…
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Digital Citizenship
EduBlogsClub Prompt #28: Prompt: Write a post about digital citizenship How do you teach students about being good digital citizens and appropriate behavior on the web? Have you had any specific experiences related to students, behavior, and the web? How do you think that digital citizenship is related to in person citizenship? What would you add…
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Celebrate and Reflect
#EduBlogsClub Prompt #40: Prompt: Celebrate and Reflect Some of the topics you might like to discuss this week include: Goals: What are your blogging goals and how have these changed over the year? Achievements: What are you proud of? Benefits: What do you see as the benefits of blogging? Has it been worthwhile for meta-cognition?…
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