26 January - Google 2

What?

This assignment had us create a class website to use for our classrooms. We were to make every page and add things that would be useful to our classroom.

So What?

This is an important tool to learn so that as a teacher, I can make my classroom and what I expect from the students readily available for parents. This is also a great tool to learn to help myself stay organized. Teaching requires a lot of work and acquiring many different resources. With several of these resources stored in this website, when I need to refer to them for a class project for me as a student they are ready to go and organized. All I would need to do is to adapt things to fit the class my assignments are for.

Now What?
This is a tool that I will most definitely use in my classroom. I just love the idea of having a central place that my students and their parents know where to look for assignments and updates and upcoming events. I would like to have a discussions tool on this like we have on blackboard. I think I would like to have online discussions as well. I also feel that this would be a good place to share ideas with other teachers. I think it's important that teachers that are teaching the same subject should be on somewhat of the same page in their lessons and what they expect from the students. I think that this tool would help me become a better teacher because I would be more organized, which is an important skill for a teacher.