Blog Post #7
Maintaining a Course Website
I believe I would use and maintain a course website as a
teacher. I believe it is very helpful for all parties. For example, parents are
able to stay up to date on all course work and activities that are happening in
both the classroom and school in general. Teachers will be able to post
announcements to the class as a whole rather than reaching out to each family
individually. As for students, they are able to have all of their work at the
click of a button. As a child, you often forget what you have to do that night.
This will make it easy and hassle free.
As helpful as I think these websites are, I do not think they
are at all necessary. I survived all of my schooling without one of my teachers
having their own website. However, with the influx of technology, I do believe
they will become more important in the future and may become worth the time and
trouble.
Importance of Technology
Technology has become a very important part of not only a
classroom, but the world and the ways in which we communicate. When I envision
my own classroom website, I would include all of the content listed in the
reading. Having a calendar, homework information, topic resources, etc. are all
very important to having a successful classroom. This is helpful in that it is bringing
the information the children are learning at school to the home. Parents will
be able to be kept up to date, and children could use it to stay on task and
complete their assignments on time. Aside from the classroom website, I could
also see myself using technology to communicate and collaborate with other
teachers and professional. As we have seen from this class, twitter can be very
beneficial to one’s communication. There are many different teacher pages with
tips, lesson plans, and motivation to get you through the day.
Web Evaluation Skills
I enjoyed creating the web evaluation in that it helped me to
better understand my standards for teaching and what I would consider acceptable
to present to the students. If I could go back, I would look for different
teaching tools and articles. I really liked the ones I picked and felt they
were easily understandable to my classroom age. However, when filling out the
evaluation form, many of my credentials were not met. This confused me in that I
thought the sources were very good and I also thought my credential list was
not asking too much. So, I will take my evaluation form with me and will
definitely think back to it when creating lesson plans in the future. But, as
time progresses, I can see myself making changes to the evaluation form.
Peer Comments
I commented on Olivia Wilkening and Malyce Collins' post.
Hayley,
ReplyDeleteI really like how you did your Web Evaluation. Nice job! I also said the same thing about using a course website how you mentioned it is a simple way to keep everyone up to date. I like how you mentioned technology helping students and teachers when it comes to timeliness. I had never thought about this point, but it is very valid. It is interesting how you said websites are helpful, but you can do without them and you relate it to your personal experiences. Cool!
I like your Web Eval- it looks very nice and organized! I also agree with you on the class website in that they are not at all necessary, but they can be quite helpful.
ReplyDeleteGreat P.O.V. on course sites for instructors! Not necessary, but beneficial is what I've found to be the case with a lot of new instructional tools. Also loved your web eval and the aspects of it. Very eye catching and thought provoking for the students. Loved reading your blog!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your post! Your WebEval is also great. It looks like you put a lot of time into it. I also think it's important to see that you noted, that you will be changing the credentials of your WebEval as time goes on but that you will use it in the future! I also agree with you about your comment on the classroom websites. They are useful but I have never used one in my career as a student and it also is a bit consuming to keep up with!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with all your points made in this post! I agree that having a class website would be useful to keep in contact with teacher and to keep students on track. Organization was a good point that you made about having in the classroom such as calendars. Your webeval wa awesome! It was a cool design and had a lot of similar information that mine had as well!
ReplyDeleteHayley,
ReplyDeleteYou brought up a great point about how website are not necessary. A lot of students do not have access to one and still were able to succeed in school. I think it is a great supplement to the classroom and can be very helpful, but like you mention it isn't a necessity. Great post!