Embracing Technology

Last Christmas break, I guess with too much time on my hands, I thought about starting a Facebook page for my health classroom.  My modest goal was to see if we could get 100 Likes.  We passed that goal in about 3 weeks and hit 200 at maybe the 8 week mark.

Health is in the news CONSTANTLY!  Good for me and my class.  It's so easy to add a link to the site, and I often show the class on our screen upfront (via a wireless internet connection, and an LCD projector) something linked from our Facebook page.  It can range from the silly (bad flirting from Season 7 on Friends) or something more serious on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace which I streamed today from the PBS website.

And you know what's even better than "Likes" is when students post links of video or articles that compliment what we are currently studying!  Student engagement outside the classroom, thank you Mark Zuckerberg!

Here is a link to our baby: https://www.facebook.com/JMHS.health