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The Wonderment is a website that teachers and students can use to help students explore their curiosities and answer questions that they might be wondering. It can allow for educators and students to promote and explore good deeds to help their community or other communities around them. This website breaks into three sections to choose from. You may choose a Path, a Project, or a Community. When choosing a Path, you are looking to collect ideas, answer questions, or issues questions for others to answer. A project focuses on the educator or students to develop their own project and try to bring it to life. It will allow you do document your progress and share with others to help your project succeed. For example, a class may want to create their own gardens and grow vegetables for their school lunches or to hand out to families in need. Finally, a Community can be chosen to establish groups of people to share their Paths, Projects, and their own communities. This brings a sense of community to a whole new level.

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Pros

1. This is a website that the students and educators can create themselves and provide the ability to see their own Paths or Projects through. This brings several real life applications and discussions into a lesson.

2.  Since this website focuses on helping others and sharing the good in the world, this is great to use for SEL (Social Emotional Learning) activities.

3.  The variety the students can choose from is important to keep student interest and encourage their independence.

Cons

1. The website is working on narrowing the outside videos that are able to be shared because some videos have not been school appropriate.

2. This may need a great deal of educator monitoring during a lesson and plenty of planning time for a lesson using the site.

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The reason why I chose this website is because I enjoyed the good in the world that it was trying to promote. From the social media platforms that I go on and what we see on television lately, there is a great deal of negativity and disagreements between people. Many of the good stories are being overlooked and I was inspired to see a website that can show students the good in this world and how they can create their own good too.

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The Wonderment Presents The Wonderbus: Guatemala

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We bring together creators and supporters in authentic relationships and work that meets our worlds' collective challenges from a place of possibility and personal connection.

Watch the video

Want to join us?

"Our favorite part of this work is to meet the curious people around the world who make this community possible.

This is a place to connect with people who see possibilities where others can't. Who try when others might not. Who are willing to reach out and create connections in ways others might not know how to.

That curiosity and willingness matters. And that's why we're here to see, hear, support and connect you with the resources that make it possible for your work, ideas and relationships to grow so that we can all imagine new possible realities into being-together.

Can't wait to meet you."

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The Wonderment Team

"Ambitious community that aims for good through global efforts...the idea behind this social-networking site is extraordinary."

- Common Sense Media

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A non-profit platform for collective impact and exploration.

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Video on why this teacher uses Instagram in her classroom.

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Video on why this teacher uses Instagram in her classroom.

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HOW TO USE TEACHER INSTAGRAM FOR CONNECTION, CONTENT & CHANGE

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Instagram is a social media platform that allows users to upload and modify photographs and videos for others to view, comment, and share. Instagram is used in many different ways and in many professions. Instagram is used for school projects, business/company profiles, advertising, promoting businesses, online shopping, graphic design, etc.

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Pros

1. Instagram can allow students to personalize a project and display it in a way that uses their own creativity.

2. There is an incredible amount of people on Instagram and is a great way to share your ideas or business with others and a way for students to learn and explore what is out there.

3. Having the ability to establish privacy for your profile is important

Cons

1. There are inappropriate videos or pictures that would be challenging to block as an educator or a school district when incorporating the app in a project.

2. Cyber bulling using Instagram has been an issue because other people can post embarrassing photos or videos of you for anyone to see.

3. It would require much work on the educator to proctor the use of it in the classroom.

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The reason I chose Instagram is because it is one of the most popular and downloaded application in the world right now. Most, if not all of my students that have a smart phone or IPad, has Instagram and the students are fascinated by it. With their interest and engagement of the application, it is motivating to see what ways I can incorporate it into my classroom.

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CBS News Story about the Sit With Us application.

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CBS News Story about the Sit With Us application.

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Sit With Us is a social application that is designed to helps students find a seat at lunch. Students would register their email or Facebook account and can search for tables that have been created that are welcoming people to sit down or invite others to come sit with them. Also, students can apply to be an “Ambassador” who would host open lunches from time to time by reading and agreeing to a pledge. How it works is that the students would create a profile, with their picture and interests to inform who they would be sitting down with. They can also chat with one another on the application to create more friendships. The more students host their own lunches; the application will provide points for the students to collect.

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Pros

1. Great way for students to be included with their peers and make friends. Provide them the confidence that they will not sit alone.

2. Helps students learn more about their peers and see who has similar interests as they do.

Cons

1. It may be tough to see the messages that students are sending to one another.

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The reason why I chose this application is because how isolated many students were and are during this pandemic, but as well as the students that constantly struggle going and eating in the cafeteria fearing rejection. The lunchroom is a great area for students to unwind, relax, and talk with their peers, but it is also a place that creates anxiety and isolation for others. This application can help schools work with the students that struggle eating in the cafeteria.

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TedEd provides creative video lessons about many topics. These are school appropriate videos and are all animated. Most of the educational videos are about 5 minutes long.

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Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing

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Pros

1. There are a variety of topics that any educator can share and make direct connections with their content or help introduce new content or concepts.

2. The videos are easy to share and navigate on YouTube and they even have their own profile to search the videos they post.

3. The short timing of the videos are great ways to keep students interested and not too long where the students get tired of watching.

Cons

1. Students can view and post inappropriate comments on YouTube videos.

2. Every video is animated and may not impact all student’s interest level of the video.

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The videos are great ways to start or finish a lesson! Also, incorporating videos can allow the educator to use a more student-centered lesson. With the amount of information people have access to, it is important that educators develop our lesson with multiple ways to learn and comprehend the material for the lesson.

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YouTube is a free video sharing website that allows you to upload, share, comment, and join other YouTubers page. This website posts about 6 billion hours of video content every month. It has gotten so popular that people make a living creating and posting YouTube videos. Many people post How to videos, educational videos, and Day in the Life videos just to name a few. Just as many individuals would use Google to look up information, many people use YouTube because they enjoy seeing something explained to them instead of reading.

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Pros

1. Students can edit and create their own profile and make a channel of their own and look for videos that they enjoy to watch.

2. There are many educational videos and lessons that teachers share on YouTube to explain concepts and are even used as the instruction for their own lessons.

3. If there is anything you want to learn about, you have a high chance a finding several videos on that concept on YouTube.

Cons

1. There are many negative posts on YouTube and there are inappropriate videos and content that students should not watch.

2. Although there are many positive comments, there are also very negative ones as well.

3. YouTube can be very distracting for students in school because they may watch videos instead of paying attention in class.

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I chose YouTube because I myself have a YouTube account and I use it in my classroom daily. I enjoy playing music for the students during independent and small group work time. Also, I play calming music for the students when they are taking assessments that help calm students down. It is a great way to provide another form of instruction of a lesson I am teaching and I upload education teaching lessons for the students to watch at home if there are confused while completing their homework and/or studying. This is my favorite social media to use in my classroom.