6-Web Evaluation Wiki

Class Web Page

I found my elementary school’s website online, Crawfordville Elementary School. I clicked to first grade and it showed me a lot of information. However, some information is hidden unless the user has a log in and password. So I did not find a specific class page, but I was able to access first grade’s page. This page provided information about spelling words, class textbooks, homework, parent night information, and kindergarten skills. This information is very useful for parents and students with internet access.

Professional Responsibilities
Anyone working with children holds an abundance of professional responsibilities. Teachers are required to communicate with students, parents, and faculty members. Using technology can really make a difference in effectively communicating with all of these individuals. E-mail, social networking sites (such as Edmodo), and class web pages are important tools that a teacher must be comfortable using. I envision myself dedicating specific time frames in my day to use all of these tools so that I don’t push it to the side and forget about it. After reading the textbook and taking this course, I realize the difference technology can make in being a successful teacher. Presentation software is also necessary in being a good, effective teacher. To engage my students in lectures I will need to use this technology often. In my PowerPoint presentations I need to use a lot of multimedia to keep students interested. Also, using themes within PowerPoint can make my presentations run smoothly and prevent students from getting distracted by tacky color schemes or unrelated themes. Printing my slides and giving them to my students to take notes on can be extremely useful in keeping students on task. They can use the printed slides to follow along and take notes during the presentation. These are only a few of the ways I envision myself using technology to accomplish my professional responsibilities as a teacher.


Web Evaluation Wiki

I really enjoyed this group assignment. A new skill that I learned while working on this assignment was how to create a webpage. I have never done this before but I have always wanted to. I think this can be really helpful in my future career as a school speech therapist. Having a wiki full of information about my students, different speech exercises, accomplishments, and other useful information can really help me connect with the parents of my students. I think meeting up with my group members really helped us collaborate and successfully complete and awesome wiki. I am excited to use this program more often in the future. I think this site is pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it. I also learned a lot from creating the actual web evaluation form. I never realized how important it was to evaluate web pages before you share them with students. This is extremely important. I am very grateful that the Internet has so many resources and sample web evaluation forms to help me determine what web pages I will allow my students to use in the classroom.