Top 10 uses on Twitter in education.

1. Let assignments be thoroughly 21st century. Instead of requiring a paper for a course, why not an interactive digital project? Or one that makes use of Twitter?
2. Students. If your students follow you, follow them back. You may inspire them to pursue career goals or build a strong mentor-mentee relationship
3. Professional organizations. Many professional organizations, even those for academics, have Twitter feeds that are well worth following.
4. Share what you’re reading. Taking on the latest academic journal? Found an amazing article in pop-science about your research field? Share it! If it’s interesting, it’ll probably get retweeted and passed around, and you might just interest a student or two to boot.
5. Tweet regularly. Twitter isn’t going to do you much good if you don’t ever use it. Develop a regular tweeting schedule both for yourself and for your courses that use Twitter.
6. Have a Twitter account for each class. In order to keep things from getting confusing, your best bet is to create a unique Twitter account for each of the courses you teach.
7. Ask questions relevant to course material. A daily question on your Twitter feed that’s pertinent to current course material can help to get students thinking.
8. Cross-classroom collaboration. Why work alone when you can connect with other college classrooms? That’s just what many college classes are doing these days
9. Professional organizations. Many professional organizations, even those for academics, have Twitter feeds that are well worth following.
10. Find support. We all need support in our jobs, even if we’re really good at them. Twitter is a great place to look if you’re having “one of those days.”

I chose to follow edmodo because it is a social learning platform for both students and teachers. 

I also followed studentteacherprobs because they post on problems and how to overcome them.

Lastly, I followed Ed Week Teacher because they have the latest post on recent developments in education. 

My observation on Bloom.

The teacher that I was assigned to was Ms. Reyphand of the 3rd grade. She was a really kind woman and she has her way of teaching and different beliefs in being a successful teacher. Her class conisted with a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and they had the motivation to learn and the readiness to get class started. The students already know the routine when you get into class; sit down, be quiet, wait for instructions. The children did so but we all know there will always be a few students who don't comprehend easily but she could easily get them to hurry up. That would show cognitive behavior towards the students. The easiest to spot was the affective learning because of how the students would be confindent in spelling a word. They would all raise their hands to spell the word and they wouldn't be shy of it. The last of the domain I didn't see because the students were sitting the whole time and weren't able to move around to do any physical activites.

Experience with Bloom.

Who: Benjamin Bloom
What: Taxonomy of Learning Domains
Where: Some Colleges
When: 1956

This article on Bloom's Taxonomy is mainly about the three types of learning which are Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. The Cognitive Domain is the domain in which a person's learning deals with more of the mental skills. They broke down the Cognitive Domain to six categories; knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This domain involves knowledge and intellectual skills. As you start from the first category, you will soon progress to the next category in which it can be easily seen as going to the next level every time one is mastered. The next domain, would be the Affective domain in which a person's learning deals more on the growth of feeling and in the emotional areas. There are five different categories in this domain; receiving phenomena, responding to phenomena, valuing, organization, internalizing values. The Psychomotor Domain is the last of the domains. This domain is mainly on the motor skills and the physical areas. This domain is broken down into seven categories; perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaptation, origination. These types of learing is used in our daily lives without us knowing it. If I had never read this article, I wouldn't be educated on this topic and unaware that everything I do deals with Bloom's Taxonomy.

The experiences that I had with Blooms Taxanomy can be seen in multiple activities conducted during class. Many of our activities involve the use of physical skills, mental skills, and the use of skills in the emotional areas. The three types of learning is commonly used in our daily lives. One example of an activity that deals with physical skill would be in a PE class where everyone is active and moving. That would fall under the Psychomotor Domain. Where as a english class deals with more on the mental skills i.e Jeopardy. That would fall under the Cognitive Domain. Even as simple as class discussions. That would fall under the Affective Domain.