Pre-Planning

Hello! Welcome!

My name is Beth Ponstein and I am currently working part-time at the Allen Park Public Library while taking classes for my School Library Media Specialist endorsement to the MLS degree. I am looking forward to this collaboration project and wanted to give you a brief introduction.

My teacher partner is Mary Pfruender, who happens to be my mother. She is a third grade teacher at Legacy Christian School in Grand Rapids. She loves to try new things and has even become a little more daring in her use of technology in her classroom despite working as a teacher for over 20 years. I chose her because she wants to revamp some of her units and I thought this would be a great project to help her do that.

I am a little nervous about this project because I have never done anything like it before. Usually I have developed units on my own for my own teaching and have never done it with someone else. I hope that I can be open to what her thoughts are as well as mine. I'm also a little nervous to do it at such a distance. Mary is learning new things with her computer all the time and the wiki will be a completely new program for her. I hope that I can help her with the technology side of it while making a productive unit for her.

I think the biggest strength that I bring to this process is my organization. I like to have everything ready to go and in order. I think this will help to make this process go more smoothly since we will not meet face to face. I hope this will also come through in the actual unit to make it easy to follow and understand.

Thanks for visiting and hopefully I will have a lot of updates on how our unit is coming!