Blog #6

Since I'm interested in Middle/High School level teaching and I wasn't sure where else to start looking, I went to Leon County High School's website. There is a link for "Teacher's Websites" which I followed and browsed through for a little bit. The teachers would each have pages with titles such as "Meet the Teacher," "Announcements," "Assignments," etc. Some teachers had specific pages that were unique to their subject, but for the most part there were a lot of similarities. I envision myself using Microsoft Office a lot because it's something I already have a general understanding of and I feel like it covers a lot of the bases for what I'd need as a teacher. I could use it for everything from presentations, to newsletters, to tests, etc. I also think it would be very beneficial to my teaching to look into setting up a website. This is something that could help me keep in touch with both parents and students and would make it easy to keep everything organized. Lastly, I would use online tools like Diigo to help my students improve communication with each other and keep organized and informed. One technology that I definitely think could be used in the classroom would be the Smart Boards. I've seen these used in classrooms and they make it a lot easier to implement creative instruction and encourage student participation. Smart Boards were used when I was still in grade school and they definitely had a significant impact in comparison to regular black boards/white boards or any other less advanced technology.