ELA in Color

 Okay, maybe the title is a bit of an exaggeration, but...  We have made it to the end of our blogging journey together. Wasn't it fun? Well, if not fun , at least educational? I didn't come into this experience with super-set expectations aside from, quite honestly, hoping it would be more engaging and fulfilling than writing a Canvas discussion post, which we have become very accustomed to as online students. I'm glad to say that my hopes were fulfilled (sorry, Canvas!), and I have assembled some of my posts to prove that professional blogging has a variety of unique, engaging features that I believe we as 21st-century educators should continue putting to practice!  Most Professional :  Blog Post #4: The Magic of Multimodalism   I chose this blog because I think that I kept a very clear, educator-centered focus while writing about multimodal literacy and how some of the new forms of digital media can be of value in today's classrooms. While I still insert opin...

Click here to watch my book trailer for Everywhere Blue! I'm not going to lie, it took me quite a while to put this one-minute and 26-second video together. It's not that I didn't enjoy making it- I actually ended up quite loving the process and end product- but I spent a significant amount of planning, constructing, and tweaking my video to make sure that I was accurately representing Massler's wonderful eco-narrative, Everywhere Blue . And, more importantly, I had to achieve this lofty goal  while working within the restraints of Animoto's video-making software. This is the first time since middle school that I have used Animoto , and while having a free account was still a bit restrictive and annoying at times, I found it just as user-friendly as it was back in the day. I remember my 7th-grade Spanish teacher being quite a big fan of the website, so maybe I had a fairly seamless experience "making" this trailer because I was able to dust off and use the...