6 Class websites and technologies

The school website I visited was John G. Riley Elementary School.  One of the tabs in this website links the viewer to all the different class websites.  The list is organized by the teachers’ last names which makes it very easy for parents and students to find.  Without signing in, you can’t see the information provided in these teacher websites.  However, students and parents are able to find information about the teacher, assignments, important documents, etc. on these class websites which can be very useful.  It doesn’t show what grade the teachers teach publically.  (http://www.leonschools.net/Page/2620)

Technology will be a big part in my classroom.  I will utilize it for grading, assignments, and delivering information.  I think Twitter will be a good tool for my classroom.  According to the podcast, it is a less intrusive way to communicate with an audience than email.  This will be helpful for reminders, important dates, and other relative classroom information.  Also, chapter 7 discusses electronic spreadsheets.  These spreadsheets allow you to organize, input, edit, and chart data and produce accurate reports for administrative tasks.  This will help save me time as a teacher from doing lots of paper work.  This way I will be able to spend more time on my students.

I learned much more about google sites and gmail through the Web Resource Evaluation assignment.  I really like that we can use google sites to collaborate with others and share our ideas.  However, it was a little difficult using the site because only one person could edit each page at a time.  This was especially difficult when we were in class working on the group paper and only one person could go on at a time.  This made the process a little inefficient.  Also, students could risk overwriting each other's work if they accidentally are editing the site at the same time.  I could use this for several different things in my future classroom; it could even be made into a classroom website.