Shannon+Hutcherson

====My name is Shannon and I am a senior Special Ed. major at Clemson University. I grew up in Greer, SC and lived there my whole life until I moved to Clemson. My favorite two things in the world are my family and my friends. When I graduate college in 2011 I hope to begin teaching in the special education field. One fun fact about me is that I am planning on getting married on May 14, 2011...the day after graduation :)==== ====I really enjoy technology once I get the hang of it. I don't always understand it right away but once I do you can't really get me off of it. I'm not one to go figure out how to do it, however, I have to be shown how and then I'm good to go. I am extremely open to technology and I can't wait to learn as much as I can about it and then use it in my future classroom.====



I used the work of Roald Dahl to create my wordle. One of the classes I currently work with is an ELA class in which they are reading a short story by Dahl. I decided to use the names of all of his major works to create my wordle. This way the students could get interested in all of the other stories, books, and poems written by Dahl and maybe go read them on their own.

I chose this online math manipulative because the 6th graders in my field placement just completed a lesson on this. I helped them complete many worksheets where they had to collor grids exactly like this one with their pencils. I wish I had known about this manipulative at the time because it would have been so much more fun and meaningful for the class as a whole.

I chose this online math manipulative because the 8th graders in my field placement are currently learning this skill. I even showed it to their general education teacher so that she could implement it in class last week. The students loved it and learned the skill required of them!