Class was so beneficial for me. We learned how to create our own class website, with seven different pages. Our assignment was to complete our own website.
So what?
This gets me so excited for my future classes. That one thing that I have loved so much about college is having blackboard. Having access to all my classes online made everything so much easier. The professors that had their material online helped me out so much. It just made everything in their classes so much accessable. Now that I have learned that I can be more of a help for my future students. This is also going to benefit my colleagues. Seeing how we are each setting up our curriculums is going to be so helpful. We will always need new ideas. With each of us having a website it will be so easy to just go and look at it online, especially if you lost your contact information with them. Having our own websites is definitely going to improve secondary education.
I know we are learning this to help my students have easier access for my class. This is going to help my students to have more access to me along with their parents. This website will so nice that all of my classes will be able to access everything about the class. I feel that that this has made me so much more effective with technology. I have always wanted to be one of those teachers that is up to date with technology. Now, thanks to this class I can be.
Now What?
As a teacher this website is going to be amazing for all my students. High School students have so much on their mind now a days, how are they supposed to remember what assignment I gave them? Having my website easy for access at their home or any computer will keep my students more engaged in my class. Not all will turn in their homework assignments, but I know that atleast they won't forget to do it because they forgot what it was. My students should do better in my class with this website. I am just so grateful that we got to learn it.
This honestly has got me so excited to start teaching. I dont' know what it is, but having my own website just thrills me. It will be so easy for my students that miss class too. I can just tell them to look on the website, instead of going over everything with them. How much faster is that going to be for me as a teacher. I will probably be getting home earlier too because I will be able to access my lesson plans online with my file cabinet. This way I won't have to stay late hours into the night, when I need to be making my husband dinner. I know it won't take all the late nights at the school away, but it will hopefully take a few. I am just thrilled that everything is going to be online for me. Technology is making our world quicker and quicker and its about time that I catch up with it.
Video
The video was awesome this week. Kids today go home get on facebook, myspace, youtube, twitter, and doing this with the television on. Throughout the school day they are sending and receiving text messages and making calls. The video gave the exact statistics and it was all so true. With all the technology used today, teachers need to start getting intune with technology. Why aren't we using technology with these students? If this is the way kids communicate and spend their time during they day, then how can we expect them to listen to us lecture in the classroom for 60-90 minutes? As teachers, we need to be update with our technology and the way the world communicates. I am going to be one of those teachers. This video was a true inspiration.
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