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I visited an schools website this week, Belmont Academy Charter School, and viewed the first grade page under the teacher Christina Cully. On her pager, she has a biography to tell a little about herself, including her academic credentials, why she loves teaching and a little about herself. On her main page, there is guide to access all other pages, including a reference page, links, schedule, first grade weekly news, videos, posts, and a photo album. You can click on all these tabs and access these different pages. The reference page gives a guideline to where students are at on their reading level, where they should be, and what to do if they do not have access to internet. The links page contains different link that they evidently use in their classroom, like educational games. The schedule shows their everyday schedule in the classroom, for parents (and students) to know how their day and week will go. The first grade weekly news is visually pleasing and easy to read, and is addressed to the family members of the student so they know what their student will be doing that week. The videos, post, and photo album tab all contain media of the students doing a variety of things in the classroom. I can access all this information, and I know that the information is mainly addressed to the parents of the first graders, not the students themselves as they are so young. The whole page is super easy to navigate and super beneficial to the parents of the students.
I will use technology in my professional career to consistently update my students and/or parents of my students on what is happening in the classroom, materials needed, and tools they can use outside they classroom if they need more help learning the lesson. Technology is a way to easily broadcast information to a wide variety of people, and I would use a website so all the information I need to broadcast would be in one source. This way it is efficient for everyone to go to the same source and see all they need to know. This is effective for me because in my professional career I would only have to upload information to one place, not worry about having to email, text, call, and upload a website. Additionally it is effective for them because they see all they need to know, and can easily react to what they see.
The technology sandbox had an amazing amount of resources that can be used in the classroom. My personal favorite was he interactive smart board. This way, the supplies like a marker and an eraser are not needed and marker will not get all over the arm of people who are left handed, like it does on a dry erase board. I loved the smart board because it had so many tools to help in learning, like apps and educational games you can download, internet, drawing board, and more than one person can be using it at a time. An amazing feature I learned about on one of the smart board was randomly scattering problems throughout the board, and having the students throw a beanbag at the board, and it will select a random problem they have to complete. That way, they cannot work out the problem they do in advanced, but instead have a random problem to do. These features all would help a classroom in so many ways, I really hope I will be able to access a smart board in my classroom.
Here is the Photo and link and the website I evaluated!!
I visited an schools website this week, Belmont Academy Charter School, and viewed the first grade page under the teacher Christina Cully. On her pager, she has a biography to tell a little about herself, including her academic credentials, why she loves teaching and a little about herself. On her main page, there is guide to access all other pages, including a reference page, links, schedule, first grade weekly news, videos, posts, and a photo album. You can click on all these tabs and access these different pages. The reference page gives a guideline to where students are at on their reading level, where they should be, and what to do if they do not have access to internet. The links page contains different link that they evidently use in their classroom, like educational games. The schedule shows their everyday schedule in the classroom, for parents (and students) to know how their day and week will go. The first grade weekly news is visually pleasing and easy to read, and is addressed to the family members of the student so they know what their student will be doing that week. The videos, post, and photo album tab all contain media of the students doing a variety of things in the classroom. I can access all this information, and I know that the information is mainly addressed to the parents of the first graders, not the students themselves as they are so young. The whole page is super easy to navigate and super beneficial to the parents of the students.
I will use technology in my professional career to consistently update my students and/or parents of my students on what is happening in the classroom, materials needed, and tools they can use outside they classroom if they need more help learning the lesson. Technology is a way to easily broadcast information to a wide variety of people, and I would use a website so all the information I need to broadcast would be in one source. This way it is efficient for everyone to go to the same source and see all they need to know. This is effective for me because in my professional career I would only have to upload information to one place, not worry about having to email, text, call, and upload a website. Additionally it is effective for them because they see all they need to know, and can easily react to what they see.
The technology sandbox had an amazing amount of resources that can be used in the classroom. My personal favorite was he interactive smart board. This way, the supplies like a marker and an eraser are not needed and marker will not get all over the arm of people who are left handed, like it does on a dry erase board. I loved the smart board because it had so many tools to help in learning, like apps and educational games you can download, internet, drawing board, and more than one person can be using it at a time. An amazing feature I learned about on one of the smart board was randomly scattering problems throughout the board, and having the students throw a beanbag at the board, and it will select a random problem they have to complete. That way, they cannot work out the problem they do in advanced, but instead have a random problem to do. These features all would help a classroom in so many ways, I really hope I will be able to access a smart board in my classroom.
Here is the Photo and link and the website I evaluated!!
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