Blog Post #10
As a teacher, I could see excel being very useful for keeping a virtual grade book. I could even use the equation functions to find the average of the students test grades and homework grades. As a future high school English teacher, I will undoubtedly have a fair amount of various quiz grades between vocabulary quizzes, essay grades, pop quizzes, participation will all need to be tracked in separate excel pages. I couldn't imagine keeping a manual grade book that would be nearly as organized as a digital one created in excel.
It was particularly interesting to see what my fellow classmates found as far as what websites there were available for students to practice online learning that was mostly free. Also, some of my fellow classmate's blogs looked really nice and well put together. One, in particular, was very intricate with multiple pages of content, and it had a unique professional tone that also very effeminate like the maker of the blog.
The next technology skill I would like to learn is how to integrate all the skills I learned in this class like blogging, Diigo, Twitter, powerpoint, and excel to make engaging accessible content for my class as their teacher. I really plan on making 90% of class digital so that if any student can't make it to class perhaps they can catch up on it on their on time by accessing the days lesson online. Perhaps at the end of class, I would have all my students tweet about the main idea of the lesson that day that a student who wasn't there could see. I know teachers have to compete with technology for "views" from children so if I can successfully integrate my lessons to a format that is convenient and familiar to my students then I think I will be an extremely effective teacher.
It was particularly interesting to see what my fellow classmates found as far as what websites there were available for students to practice online learning that was mostly free. Also, some of my fellow classmate's blogs looked really nice and well put together. One, in particular, was very intricate with multiple pages of content, and it had a unique professional tone that also very effeminate like the maker of the blog.
The next technology skill I would like to learn is how to integrate all the skills I learned in this class like blogging, Diigo, Twitter, powerpoint, and excel to make engaging accessible content for my class as their teacher. I really plan on making 90% of class digital so that if any student can't make it to class perhaps they can catch up on it on their on time by accessing the days lesson online. Perhaps at the end of class, I would have all my students tweet about the main idea of the lesson that day that a student who wasn't there could see. I know teachers have to compete with technology for "views" from children so if I can successfully integrate my lessons to a format that is convenient and familiar to my students then I think I will be an extremely effective teacher.
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