What, So What, Now What

What:
This week we have been working on our classroom websites. I really actually enjoyed this assignment. It was time consuming, but wait isn't being a teacher too? While doing my classroom website some of the key elements I enjoyed doing was planning out lessons/homework assignments to do. It not only allowed me to learn the technology of the class but to think of actual lesson plans which I will use in my classroom. I am however learning and trying to come up with some cool ways to be able to incorporate this technology and website into my future classroom. Something that I have learned this week is that if you know how to use the Google docs, sites, and presentations it sure makes group projects a lot easier. It is easy to make corrections as well as communicate from one person to another. I liked the fact we build our own calendar and that if we desired to build one for our future classroom it would be very simple.

So What:
This assignment means that I have had yet another way to express myself and help my students learn through technology. This is a great way for me to stay organized and be able to communicate with other teachers. This is a great way to invite students to be engaged and learn. We are learning all these techniques and "short cuts" so we can help our students learn better, stay engaged, and have an easier than ever process. By using the Google docs, online calender and emails the schools and teachers could save a tremendous amount of money in ink and paper. Now days most people have computers and the internet. For those people who do not have a computer, internet, or email other accommodations can be made. This assignment has already helped me not only in this course but my other courses that I am currently enrolled in. For other classes I have group presentations and Google docs is a great way to go through and edit our work and communicate. For life in general this assignment has enabled me to receive knowledge to use for community letters, religious beliefs and much more. To my colleagues this techonology means an easier way to communicate. Once teaching and being part of a team there may be programs in which we can communicate and write up using the google docs.

Now What?

Now that I know how to use google docs I will be able to help my students in school better. Because students are involved in media, and technology so much it is necessary for me to be as well. By me learning about this it means my future students will hopefully learn better because we can all connect and do a lot of things with technology, which is what they see as fun! This information is defiantly changing the type of teacher I will be. I cam more willing than ever to incorporate the technologies into my classroom. You hear all the time how technology is "corrupting" students. However if used properly and guide the students this technology is such a great resource. In my future classroom I plan to have actives where the students not only see technology but get to use it for assignments. One assignment that I would provide for a 5th grade class would be a project about Utah. These students will be placed into groups of four. They will draw from a hat what there topic of Utah will be. From there they can correspond through using Google docs to create there project. I think this would be a great assignment for students to use technology and have fun with it! Hopefully this would keep them interested enough and use technology to learn and do good!