Blog 6
When I read this section of the blog instructions, I immediately thought to go to my high school's website to find a teacher page on there and I was quickly disappointed by the fact that there aren't any teacher pages! I then looked up Leon High School right here in Tallahassee as a back up. They have an entire directory of teacher's names with their pages hyperlinked. I clicked on a random name and found that this person teacher English! On the site, there are links to a Welcome page, a Meet the Teacher page, a Student Resources page, and an Important Documents page. These pages include an educational and professional history of the teacher, a slide show of pictures of the teacher with family and students, SAT and ACT prep resources and links, links to homework sites, and a personalized syllabus for the class.
Link: https://www.leonschools.net/Page/27982
I am very fortunate to be in a situation where I have easy access to technology and most of my peers do as well. I am excited to use Twitter as a form of productivity and communication with both my students and my coworkers or fellow teachers from other places. I will use this as a way of reminding my students of important events (they can make it so that they are notified whenever I post a tweet) and networking and sharing opinions and resources with other teachers. I hope that the school that I work in will have some type of grade tracking/ assignment tracking website. FSU has Canvas which is very useful and I have used similar software such as Pinnacle in Middle School and Edline and Blackboard in High School. These were very useful as a way to keep organized and tuned in with classroom events and assignments. I truly hope that this is a resource provided to me by my future school.
I thoroughly enjoyed visiting the Tech Sandbox! As a hopeful English Teacher, however, there are not too many ways that I can envision technology being applied in the classroom. One tool that I can see being useful in my future classroom is the VR Headset. I can picture having a bunch of the cardboard head sets where you can use your own smartphone as the screen. This could be useful if we are reading Shakespeare, for example. We could go on a virtual field trip to Stratford upon Avon to see Shakespeare's birthplace! Another tool that would be useful is the Promethean or Smart Boards. I could put a PDF of a poem up on the board and then have students come up and circle all of the metaphors or figurative language using the Smart pens. This would be a fun way of teaching students how to manually deconstruct a piece of writing and look at it in a critical way.
Link: https://www.leonschools.net/Page/27982
I am very fortunate to be in a situation where I have easy access to technology and most of my peers do as well. I am excited to use Twitter as a form of productivity and communication with both my students and my coworkers or fellow teachers from other places. I will use this as a way of reminding my students of important events (they can make it so that they are notified whenever I post a tweet) and networking and sharing opinions and resources with other teachers. I hope that the school that I work in will have some type of grade tracking/ assignment tracking website. FSU has Canvas which is very useful and I have used similar software such as Pinnacle in Middle School and Edline and Blackboard in High School. These were very useful as a way to keep organized and tuned in with classroom events and assignments. I truly hope that this is a resource provided to me by my future school.
I thoroughly enjoyed visiting the Tech Sandbox! As a hopeful English Teacher, however, there are not too many ways that I can envision technology being applied in the classroom. One tool that I can see being useful in my future classroom is the VR Headset. I can picture having a bunch of the cardboard head sets where you can use your own smartphone as the screen. This could be useful if we are reading Shakespeare, for example. We could go on a virtual field trip to Stratford upon Avon to see Shakespeare's birthplace! Another tool that would be useful is the Promethean or Smart Boards. I could put a PDF of a poem up on the board and then have students come up and circle all of the metaphors or figurative language using the Smart pens. This would be a fun way of teaching students how to manually deconstruct a piece of writing and look at it in a critical way.
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