118 - Kristin Merrill: Activity, Engagement, and the Joy of Learning

KRISTIN MERRILL is a fourth grade teacher in Florida who specializes in language arts and strives to make lessons interactive through engagement and the use of ed tech. She and her husband make a dynamic duo in primary education and recently published a book, The Interactive Class: Using Technology to Make Learning More Relevant and Engaging in the Elementary Classroom (https://amzn.to/3a1VTN6).Follow Kristin on Twitter @FriendsInFourth, on Instagram @FriendsInFourth, and on the blog that she shares with her husband Joe at themerrillsedu.com.Visit https://teachersonfire.net/ for all the show notes and links from this episode!Connect with the Teachers on Fire podcast on social media:On Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeachersOnFireOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teachersonfire/On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeachersOnFire/On LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/TimWCaveyOn The Teachers on Fire Magazine: https://medium.com/teachers-on-fireOn YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFDPjkAn7lZb-rahyVDttKASong Track CreditsEasy (by Mike Cosmo -- license purchased at https://taketones.com/)Bluntedsesh4 (by Tha Silent Partner, courtesy of FreeMusicArchive.org)Sunrise Drive (by South London Hifi, courtesy of the YouTube Audio Library)Jane Fonda (by The Grand Affair, courtesy of the YouTube Audio Library)--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachersonfire/support