Classroom Reflection 09/04

This week in class we learned how to utilize Google sites and build our classroom website. We were walked through the class and the different templates and tools that are available on the sites builder.

As a teacher this is an important tool seeing as though I can link up this website to the school's website and build a relationship with the students via google sites. This brings technology into the classroom and a website that will be user friendly to the students and parents. Websites are great for interaction between the parents, teachers, and students this builds the fact if a student misses class this website will build up the relationship academically and help students make up missing work.

I originally didn't know about google sites and the technology and information that was available, this opens up the fact that it only takes a couple of minutes each day to update the website and to create it in a way that students will be able to understand. I never really thought about having my own website and utilizing the internet and fact that this is a user friendly way that parents, students and other teachers might notice and build from. I really look forward to learning more about the available technologies and ways that I can build on them and build them in my own classroom. Educators need to keep up on the technologies that their students are using and learning and be able to interface that in to their own classroom.