Teacher Web Reflections

1.Describe at least 3 ways how you see the use of a class web site could be used to support your future teaching. Provide specific details for each example.

A class website is a totally awesome thing to have for my future teaching. One thing that I always appreciated as a student was when my teachers who had websites posted our grades online so we were able to check them at any time. I also intend to post assignments onto my teacher website, which not only allows students to not use the "but I lost my prompt" excuse, but it also saves paper. Plus, with a teacher website, I would be able to post links to websites that could help my students for every assignment, or for my class in general. It is basically an infinite resource.

2.Identify what you see as the top 2 ways students could use a class web site to enhance their learning and provide some justifications for your selections.

The top two ways that students could use a class website to enhance their learning are the resources that become available, and the access to information pertinent to the class. With the use of a class website, I as a teacher could collect websites that could serve as resources to my students for whatever projects we were doing, books we were reading, or units we were working on. I could also give them general resources, such as the citation machine, that could help them not only in my class, but in all their classes, and in any future education they may pursue. Another way that this kind of a website could be useful to students is by providing them with digital copies of all handouts from class, all assignments and any other information that would be necessary to provide students for my class. This would serve as a place where no matter what happened to their notebooks, or where their backpacks went, they could always access their assignments or information that they needed.

3. Think about the page types and features of the Teacher Web system. What do you feel where the 2 strongest features or page types within the Teacher Web system? Why do you see these as the strongest?

One of the extra pages that I created on my Teacher Web was a question and answer page. It had general questions that students may ask about classroom policies, late work, attendance policies, and other general information that may be found on a syllabus. Rather than answering the question of late work every time a student turns a paper in late, I would be able to direct them to this page, and all the information would already be spelled out for them and available any time they had a question. The other part of the site that I really thought to be the most useful was the calendar of upcoming assignments and events. By putting this on the website, students are held accountable for knowing all the due dates, because they are always available and posted ahead of time.