Reflections on Using TeacherWeb

1. The two ways that a website similar to TeacherWeb can help and support my future teaching is that it gives me experience creating a simple outline for my future site and the experience I gained of finding online resources will better prepare me for the future. The first one of creating the website is something that I feel is very important to the development of technology into your classroom. I now have the understanding of different sites such as wikis, blogs, and other simple web design sites. I always thought that creating a site would be more difficult and I was amazed at how simple it was when broken down in class and following directions online. I showed my TeacherWeb to my mother and thought I should go into Web Design instead of teaching because of how professional the site looked. I told her that it was simple and that the site did everything for you, you just had to know how to enter your information and where to put it. The second part of the TeacherWeb and the support it will help with the most is finding and using online resources. There were thousands of sites to search through to find ones that were in fact helpful and can be used in my classroom. Finding these sites now helps me use this new information in my classroom as resources for my classroom.

2. Two ways a student can benefit from having a classroom with TeacherWeb would be that a student has an outlet to find more information for research or studying. Another way it can aid students is helping them keep track of due dates and project information. The first way of providing more information for students for research and studying is through having your site use web resources and class handouts. I believe that having these two pages as part of your TeacherWeb site is essential in student success. The second part I feel is also essential to the success of my students by providing them with up to date information on projects and due dates. The TeacherWeb had announcement pages, calendars, class handouts, and homework pages all at its disposal. All of these pages help students keep track of what they have to do and how to do it. Organization in your TeacherWeb can definitely help a student succeed in class where sometimes other classes and other obligations make it hard for students to keep themselves organized.

-Matt Melka

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