Theresa Tran

Kindergarten Teacher
Graduate Student
Supporter of All Things Literacy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

@chrissyteigen Thank you so much for helping all of us teachers out!! You are so amazing! https://t.co/GRYbtDPDJd

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Incorporated new literacy skills practice into my social studies lesson about community careers. So much fun watching the class build structures and add pics of it to their e-portfolio #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Reading these articles about creating multimodal texts is so motivating! Definitely will be implementating lessons that allow my students to create texts that include images, video, sound, and more. #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

My kinders absolutely LOVE adding their own voice recordings to their journal posts on Seesaw!! #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Implementing the second lesson of my activity plan that practices using social media for collaboration in the classroom and the kinders are catching on so quickly to these new literacy skills! Thanks Seesaw for being so user-friendly! #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Working so hard on my activity plan to integrate a social networking site to promote collaboration in the classroom that I forgot to post a weekly tweet! Oops! #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

@jgray_jones just gave me an amazing idea to promote internet inquiry during center time!! I can't wait to see what the kinders inquire about and what they end up learning! #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Introduced my kinders to #PebbleGo and they LOVED it! The multimodal features of text, images, videos, and audio help my little friends navigate through the pages and comprehend the content. Now they can't get enough of researching and learning new facts! #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Read about making a digital class book using My Storybook Maker. Definitely going to look into implementing this into the classroom this year! #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Trying out synchronous blogging for the first time w/ @jgray_jones and @melindam37!! Refresh, refresh, refresh! #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Love how infographics are used so commonly nowadays in textbooks, articles, and journals. Not only are they so concise and aesthetically pleasing to read, they're a fun way to express creativity, communicate, and collaborate with others! #21stCenturyLiteracy #5Cs #NewLiteracies

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

"Effective planning entails learning about your students' knowledge of and experience with digital tools, as well as their social practices and dispositions toward learning." -Understanding & Creating Digital Texts by Beach, Anson, Breuch, & Reynolds (p. 39) #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

@jgray_jones We used FlipGrid during our Professional Day! It's a great tool to encourage collaboration and creativity!! So excited for your students to start using it! #21stCenturyLiteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Reading all of these articles and chapters about artful integration of technology has completely inspired me!! I can't wait to start incorporating more collaborative and creative activities into the classroom! TPACK+ framework, here Kindergarten comes!! #21stcenturyliteracy

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Planning another lesson for the kinders this week to support #21stCenturyLiteracy. Expecting to be in Phase 1 (computer and navigation basics) of the 3-Phase IRT Model for awhile before releasing responsibility into Phase 2, but that's okay!

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

Just did a mini lesson w/my kinders on how to read the icons and navigate through the ABCya webpage. We'll see how they do on their own in the computer lab on Thurs! #21stCenturyLiteracy #digitalnatives

[Theresa Tran @LearnWithMsTran]

First day of our Digital and Multimodal Literacies class at OU! Boomer Sooner!! #21stCenturyLiteracy #ou #boomersooner