This online class has been very neat and interesting to me. I have learned a lot about technology through this class experience. I love to use technology, so I guess this class automatically became very interesting to me, especially now that I see different ways I can incorporate technology in my future classroom. As a teacher, I want to use as much technology I can get my hands on to help teach my students. I want them to be able to understand the technology I am using, understand how to use it themselves, and also show them how technology can be used to help better their learning. Technology can range any where from an advanced computer to a smart-board.
In this online class we have done a digital storytelling project, created our own classroom website, created a portaportal, and now we are working on glogsters. I would have to say that my most favorite project we have done in this class would be creating our own classroom website. I see this project being very useful to me. I am the type of person to be very organized as much as I can. I also as a teacher hope to strive to be very involved and informative to the parents and my students about everything and keep them up to date with what is going on in the class and what their children are learning. A lot of teachers I've noticed don't keep their websites up to date, or even add anything on there. I hope to be the total opposite of that. This class has showed me how important and useful a classroom website can be. I think the website can be used for student's learning. I can keep the parents up to date so the students parents can help their children more when they get home from school, whether it be a project, a test coming up, or simply homework practice problems. I also included some student resources so they could go to a website and play review games for fun. The technology method is the ultimate method for me when I become a teacher. I highly believe that technology has to be used in the classroom a lot. Students will love it! They love to use their hands and see visual items. This will enhance their learning. Worksheets will all together become a thing of the past, at least I know it will be in my classroom! Technology is effective because students are more engaged and interested in it than a worksheet. The information they pull out of the lessons when teachers use technology, verses a worksheet, they will obtain the information a lot longer than the worksheet.
I love the website, too! I had no idea that it is as simple as it really is! I will definitely be using this tool in my classroom because like you said, worksheets are going to be a thing of the past, and that goes for take home notes, etc. Parents are on the computers more than they check their child's backpack (which is sad), but if you can provide them a one-stop-shop for everything going on in their child's academic life, maybe more parents would get involved! I really hope that this tool will be as beneficial as I am hoping it to be!
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