What?
I am currently learning about how to build a google site. I learned how to create a professional, free, and user friendly website for future students and their parents. We are currently assigned to completing a website for our future classroom using lots of tools on the website to create lots of resources for future site accessors.
So What?
Learning how to create this website means to me as a teacher that I am going to be using technology to create more resources for the students in my class. It also means that the parents will be aware of what is going on, ways they can access my advice and help, they will be able to keep up with an organized schedule they can follow, and therefore, they will be happy. The parents will be able to be as involved in their child's education as they would like to with all the tools to their child's success listed in an accessible website. As a student, learning how to create a website helps me reach my goals of becoming a better and more educated teacher. As a colleague, it will allow me to collaborate with other teachers in one more way. They can be aware of how my class is in order and feel comfortable with what's going on in my classroom.
We are learning how to make a website with google sites to be educated in as many technological areas as possible. This adds to the density of our knowledge, as teachers, of tools that can be used to help parents and students be active members of the classroom. This can apply to me today because my classes are gearing me towards becoming a better teacher, and learning about these technological tools will add to my nest of knowledge and resources to make a great classroom. All my other classes are attempting to add to this collection of knowledge in different ways, and this google site can help me be more aware of resources to access for organizing all my classes. This all means that I can be a more organized student, colleague, and a smarter teacher with lots of different sources of knowledge to tap into.
Now What?
This technology will allow my future students to be interactive members of the class in and outside of the room. This information changes my current schema by introducing my mind to multiple pathways to reach successful conclusions. It creates ways to perform my tasks as a student and teacher in more diverse methods. This particular new schema will change the type of teacher I become in the future by allowing me to explore more options to involve parents and students. It will help the class stay organized and aware of any changes. It will help me have the ability to make changes, be flexible, and yet still maintain professionalism and fairness. I can give my students assignments that can all have the option of meeting in groups in person or collaborating online using google documents. This would only work for the oldest grades in elementary, but either way, the assignments will be more likely to be completed on time and correctly because the parents will be involved and aware. I can let my students know that the assignments will always be listed on the website, and I can help them through whatever assignments they have via google email, blog post comments, google documents, etc.
This will help me be a better teacher because I am teaching them technology to allow them to function in a technology based world while offering them other learning opportunities within the basic school subjects. This information will help me be a better colleague because I can organize events with them, if they have Gmail, and I can organize class activities that include them. We could even share calendars with each other to collaborate our lesson plans. There are many doors opened with the awareness of Gmail and all of the tools that can be used to benefit careers and personal life via online organization. I am excited to get the parents thrilled about their child's education and feel comfortable with me as their teacher. I don't want anything in the classroom to be a secret, and I hope that by having lots of different ways for students, parents, and colleagues to contact me, and by having an organized and informative website, the class will have no child left behind.
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