Blog #6

      I went onto Raa Middle School's website. The website includes pertinent information like a list of the teachers and their departments, as well as a list of all athletics activities. Once you click on a specific department you can see all of the teachers with a link to their own websites. Each website is different and unique to the teacher themselves. On these websites you can expect to see what is expected of your child and how their teacher is. Ms. Langston, teaches all language arts for all of the grades.

      It is almost impossible to have a technology free classroom today. With all of this readily available technology to use at our finger tips, I think teachers should be excited and should use every resource available to them. Certain word processing features like spell check, mail merge, and desktop publishing can be very helpful for teachers and students to learn at such an early age! In my classroom I plan to incorporate things like Twitter or TopHat that way students have a comfortable and easy way to interact with one another. I would also plan to use google apps for education quite a lot as well. Through google I have learned about blogger, google docs, google slides, and much more. They have all been very useful to me so I know it would be useful to my students as well!
     
       I'm not going to lie the last assignment was difficult to me. I have never used Wiki before or anything like it. I had trouble navigating the website and figuring out how it all worked. I cannot see myself using this much in the future because I had such a difficult learning curve. Maybe if someone sat down and took me through it, I would like it but as of now I am not a fan. I liked that you could invite others to collaborate on it, though. I do feel like this potentially could be a useful tool to use in my future career, but again I would need a lot more assistance with it.