Blog Post #6

I visited the school website for the school that I visit for EDF1005. I even found the page of the teacher that I shadow. I looked at Raa Middle school, and my teacher's sixth grade class. The teachers put the homework schedule online on their pages and even put up class updates. My teacher uploaded some study guides and links to readings and homeworks on there as well. Some teachers put up photos of themselves and their families along with a little bit of information about themselves. Some teachers had pages on the actual school website and some ran blogs on other domains. Here is a link to one of the pages: http://raa.kleach.com/

I see myself using grading technology for sure in my classroom. Not only is it incredibly efficient, but it is also required by most schools, or at least every school that I have attended. It can help reduce error that might occur if grades were calculated by hand, something really important for people like me who sometimes transpose numbers. There is also certain grading technology and websites such as Socratic that can show what questions were more commonly missed, and which more students got correct. This would help many teachers to know what students need to work on more. I also plan on using technology to communicate with parents and students. Parents and guardians can really help students with what teachers cannot so it is important to keep them updated with what is going on in the classroom. I want to send out emails every week with the agenda so that guardians stay int he loop.

I thought the digital whiteboards were really interesting. I've seen them used a bit in school, but I graduated before every single teacher had them in their classroom. I think that I will probably be using these a lot, as they become more common. I would especially use them for math. Some versions let multiple users write at the same time so I could have multiple students working on problems at the same time. There are also games, that I think would make the class more interesting and interactive. I would also use it to underline things in powerpoints and in readings. This could help students to understand how to efficiently annotate and how to find the main idea of a passage more easily.