Before this class, I had managed
two personal blogs for fun but had been trying to figure out a way to implement
them successfully into a classroom. Blogger was not the platform I had chosen
to work on before, so it was interesting to see how it worked. However, I don’t
think that I will be continuing my classroom blog on it. Being used to
Wordpress I found that Blogger lacked some of the simple formatting features
that I commonly used.
This class introduced me to
Rubistar, a rubric creation site. I absolutely love this site! It has tons of
premade rubrics, categories, and ideas! I love how easy it is to start with a
basic rubric on the site and tweak it as needed to fit your project. Rubrics
were always a dreaded task for me because I never knew how to word the
differences between the grading categories, but this site is letting me use
more and more in my classroom!
Education World’s website had a
list of easy and quick ways to use technology more often in your classroom.
This quick list was full of great ideas that are easy to implement. It is
surprising how often we can use digital resources to replace or supplement all
the written work and textbooks we use! (http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech146.shtml
)
This class has helped me analyze my
use of technology and work to use more in my classroom. It has also given me
some ways to use the limited technology available to our students. Technology
needs to be used often to create comfort and allow students to develop proficiency
with it. It also needs to be used
productively to assist our curriculum and state standards to help create
student growth.
