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Kayla McCray is a 6th grade science and social studies teacher at RMS in Georgetown County, South Carolina. This is her 5th year of teaching, though she has taught different subjects. She earned her undergraduate degree in elementary education and a master's in instructional technology. She is passionate about technology and enjoys figuring out how to use it. Her technology skills are strong overall but could be improved in areas like video, some software programs, and Photoshop. She aims to incorporate technology effectively into her lessons to engage students.

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Kayla McCray is a 6th grade science and social studies teacher at RMS in Georgetown County, South Carolina. This is her 5th year of teaching, though she has taught different subjects. She earned her undergraduate degree in elementary education and a master's in instructional technology. She is passionate about technology and enjoys figuring out how to use it. Her technology skills are strong overall but could be improved in areas like video, some software programs, and Photoshop. She aims to incorporate technology effectively into her lessons to engage students.

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Discussion 1 - Introduction

Hello everyone! My name is Kayla McCray. I bring greetings


from Georgetown, SC – where I was born and raised. I am a
6th grade Science and Social Studies teacher at RMS in
Georgetown County Schools. This is my 5th year teaching.
My five years have been at my current school however, I
have been teaching different subjects. A fun fact about me
is I said I would never set foot back in a middle school but
here I am! I earned my undergrad from Coastal in
Elementary Education. I also have my Masters in
Instructional Technology. One thing I fail at is time
management so I am hoping that is an underlying skill I can
learn from this course. I look forward to strengthening my
knowledge of technology and one day teach others about
the use of technology.
Discussion 2 – Technology Skills

My love for technology and my ability to figure it out versus


getting frustrated led me to this program of study. I enjoyed
my classes so much from my master's that I decided to go
the extra step and take the next level of classes. Technology
has always been my passion and I have always been able to
quickly maneuver almost anything technology related,
sometime with no background knowledge. My skills are
really focused on technology as a whole. Three areas that
could use more work are video skills, some software
programs, and Photoshop. Overall, I would say my level of
expertise would be about 7 out of 10. Technology is also
always changing so sometimes, just when you think you are
becoming more advanced with something, here comes new
updates. Being that we are 1:1 at our school, I am always
looking for ways to efficiently and effectively incorporate
technology into my lessons for my students to grab and
keep their attention. I feel this class and program will help
me do just that.
Discussion 3 – Multimedia in the Classroom

George Evans once said “every student can learn, just not
on the same day or in the same way”. When it comes to my
students, I know that if I can just touch one child, my work
is not in vein. I know that each child is different and learns
differently. In my class, I aim to differentiate my lessons so
that I can help students learn. Through the use of
multimedia, I am able to touch on multiple different
learning styles. The advantage is, for example, with a video,
students are able to see and hear the information
presented to them. There are disadvantages as well. The
students who are kinesthetic fall in the cracks because
watching a video does nothing to reach them and their
learning style. Therefore, you would need to look into
something that does address their learning style.
Discussion 4 – DID Model Challenges

I believe the most challenging stages would have to be asses


and revise as well. Students always want instant feedback
on their assignments. However when there are 100+
students, that becomes a little challenging to do. One
change that I could make to prevent this from future
endeavors would be to make incorporate the use of
GoogleForms which has a feature which allows for instant
feedback that the students desire. I can make so many
modifications to this form as well for both my students who
need special services as well as my students who should be
challenged. Another way, I could overcome this difficulty is
to set up a system. I could set that I would grade a specific
class’s on a certain day, I could go by last names, or just
have a certain day where I will do assessments and revisions
where I have some grading time in between to allow for me
to do the differentiation and feedback that the students
desire.
Discussion 5 – Gifted Students
A recent assignment I had my students to do was create a
brochure. They had to use the information given to them
and organize it to produce a final project that was an
informational pamphlet about the civilization that we were
learning about. They were given a rubric to follow to
produce their brochure as well. This assignment was done
on paper. I could have had the students make the first draft
on paper and then use a program such as Google Docs to
create their final product. For a gifted class, I may lay off on
the expectations to create some areas of creativity and
challenge. I may even just give them the expectations and
have come up with a way to present the information to me.
This way, they would have more experience with the
program as well as experience with doing certain tasks on
the platform. I may have also had the students to make a
survey that their classmates could complete as well. This
would allow them to get feedback on their productions as
well as be able to use and explore a survey platform such as
www.surveymonkey.com.

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