Sunday, March 27, 2016

HUEHD

When I went to my bloggers meetup, #2016Teacherbloggerretreat, one of 
my prizes was an HUEHD document camera!  It was such an amazing gift, that I had to open it right up.  It is so beautiful.  It’s a bright red camera.  It’s so portable and easy to setup.  My class was finishing up animal pamphlets that they made for their animal research project.  The kids wanted to share their pamphlets with the class and this was an easy way for them to share with the whole class.  One of my students put their pamphlet under the document camera and was able to share with the whole class.  She was so excited to share and the class was excited to see what she did.  Using the document camera made it so easy to share with the entire class.  In my district we don’t have document cameras so sharing something whole class like this is hard but with the HUEHD it was so easy to share and all the kids were able to see.  I am so grateful to HUEHD to caring about teachers enough to offer teachers at #2016Teacherbloggerretreat these awesome document cameras!  Please follow them on their social media sites and show them love!  Thank you HUEHD!
http://www.huehd.com




Sunday, March 20, 2016

2016 Spring Teacher/Blogger Retreat

I'm Back!!!  I had taken a break from blogging because I have been so overwhelmed with my new school and position.  But I have missed all of you.  
This past weekend I had the privelge of attending #2016Teacherbloggerretreat.  It was held once again in Frenchlick, Indiana.  More than 200 teachers came to be inspired.  There were so many great TPT teachers along with some amazing bloggers that attended.  What I learned from this weekend, was that I can do anything that I put my mind up to!  I never truly believed that until #2016Teacherbloggerretreat.  

Many teachers were part of offering presentations on topics that are important to them.  I had the honor of doing 2 sessions on Brag Tags.  This was my very first time ever presenting. I was beyond nervous but I did have 20 teachers in total that came to my presentation.  It really was an honor.  I was able to sit in two different presentations. One was with the Tutu Teacher and the other was with the one and only Kindergarten Smorgasboard.  
I wanted so say a huge thank you to my bestie, Jennifer and my sister Maria, for coming with me.  I was so nervous about presenting that they decide to come with me to support me.  But they both ended up leaving inspired and rejuvenated by this amazing event.  Now they can’t wait for next year’s bloggers meet up!













But now let’s talk about the fabulous prizes we received!!!  First of all, a huge thank you to Ms Holly Ehle for all of her hard work.  Putting something together like this is no small feat.  My first fabulous prize was from ABC Mouse.  I got a cute mouse backpack along with a DVD for my class!  Then ABC Mouse went all out and gave all of us classroom access to their website!  
HUE HD document cameras were another fantastic prize.  The company donated each one of us 1 document camera to use in our classroom plus if we did a small post/video clip we can get another one!!!!!  The document camera that I received was red.  It is so easy to set up and so portable.  Plus, it can record and playback on it.  It takes pictures of what your presenting.  Amazing!
We also received from Vera Bradley a beautiful  bag to carry all of our treasures!  I love Vera Bradley products but the company is so giving that I love them even more now!

Here are our sponsors for this amazing event, please go show them some LOVE!!!