My Prezi

I was recently introduced to My Prezi. What is a Prezi?  It is a way to make Presentations on the web that you can access anywhere with Wi-Fi.  They even have a Prezi app.  

Here is the website. https://prezi.com/dashboard/

It is a great public website that has a multitude of possibilities and free templates.  It is more interactive than PowerPoint and allows videos to be embedded into the presentation.  It allows for voice overs and images.  It is definitely worth your time to try it out.  If you are interested in making a family tree, this might be the ideal resource for you.

I found the website easy to use.  I had a question about inserting a hyperlink and the help button was very helpful.  Thirty-four seconds later I had my answer.

Here is my sample Prezi.

It walks you through my life and some of the places I have had the opportunity to teach and work with children of various ages.

I currently work with four and five-year-olds.  I showed them my Prezi.  They giggled when they saw me in the Presentation and several children had different questions about who I was with and what I was doing.  I answered each one of them.

In the years to come, when I do graduate from CSCC I want to work with school age children either as an interpreter or as a teacher to deaf students K-3.  American Sign Language sentence structure is very similar to a pre-school child's grammar.  They talk about the subject and then ask the question.  Example:  Me!  Hungry!     

If you get a chance, give Prezi a try.

Three Great Teacher Blogs

Children are our present and future.  Anytime you can inspire children to pursue their dreams and find their dreams is a moment to be in awe.  Melissa Taylor's Imagination Soup has several ideas to spark a child's imagination.  If they can imagine it, then they can do it.

Imagination Soup
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In need of a little something different?  The Preschool Toolbox has a little bit of everything from STEM to their own book.  If you are in need of a few good ideas, check it out.

The Preschool Toolbox
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Another fun Website is Kinder Craze.  There are several posts to get you excited about teaching!

Kinder Craze

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Welcome to My Blog

My name is Heidi, Miss Heidi to my itty bitties at work.  I call them my precious little angels.  When they are young they are very impressionable.  And lets face it, when you are surrounded around four and five year olds they can present challenges.  That is an opportunity for you to show them how an adult should react.  My extra special angels generally present extra challenging behavior lol!  I know none of you have ever encountered such a thing (; 

I am a graduate of Ohio Christian University with a Bachelor's in Intercultural Studies and Christian Ministries.  I am a published author of the Zelle Saga: Book 1 Reality, Book 2 Dreamer, Book 3 Intervention, and Book 4 Drex, you can find them on Amazon.  The Zelle Saga is a Young Adult Christian Science-Fiction series.  Yes, there are more in the series, and from time to time I work on them as well as various other ideas of Fiction I create in my head.

A few years down the road, I would like to work as a teacher using ASL.  What's ASL?  Well, I am glad you asked.  It is American Sign Language.  I am taking ASL classes in addition to my Early Child Education classes.  I have been learning American Sign Language on my own and teaching the children as I go.  As a teacher, my goal is for each child to be more in tune with themselves and to be better problem solvers.