We are working on creating a classroom website with Google tools.
Creating a public classroom website will give me a convenient way to organize myself as a teacher. I will be able to keep students and parents up to date with daily/weekly/monthly assignments and activities all in one place. I will be able to add more pages as the need arises. I will be able to share new ideas and cool educational sites or opportunities I come across as I plan my lessons. If my colleagues also have websites, it will make it super easy to share ideas with each other and to keep tabs on each other's teaching methods and careers.
I am a real pencil and paper kind of gal, so learning to use technology in this class will save me a big headache later. I am not against technology at all, I am just a little slow when I am first learning how to use it. The more familiar I am, the more at ease I feel. Logically, it would be really time consuming to make copies of my "hard copy" calendar and to distribute it; plus students are constantly losing things, so digitally displaying my calendar will stop that excuse in its tracks. I want my students to be engaged with learning in my classroom and to be as passionate about the subject of English as possible. Posting cool things that are going on with reading and writing will really help my students to see my passion and hopefully it will inspire them to search and share the things they have passion for as well.
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