Blog Journal 6

During my personal experiences in my classes, I have never really been familiar with teacher pages on a school website. It’s such a coincidence that I have realized this very recently because of the field observations I do for my Introduction to Education course. The school that includes the teacher pages I’ve seen previously is the Florida State University Schools which consists of grade levels K-12; however, the grade of students I have been focusing on are middle school students, which are 6-8. After visiting class pages of this school website such as the one made by the English teacher I observe, I’ve seen many kinds of public information. There is an About section that lists the teacher’s personal data, educational background, and professional experience. Other sections are categorized by the specific subjects that are taught, which include syllabi, expectations, lesson plans, and units. Attached are a couple of screenshots and a link to the site.

I envision myself using technology to accomplish my professional responsibilities more efficiently and effectively in many ways. Referring back to the class pages mentioned before, I would be able to create my own websites for professional uses as well in the workforce. Since I have plans of becoming a teacher in the future, this would be beneficial for students and parents to gain more information about myself and what I would be teaching in my classes. Having a website would be more structured as well and convenient for students in this generation who are more familiar with the use of technology.

Visiting the Technology Sandbox was a great experience that allowed me to have a better understanding of a wide variety of tools that can be used. I believe that many of the technology I learned about could be used in the classroom. One of them was the SmartBoard, which had the feature of being able to touch the board with your finger or the markers attached to make your own creations. This would be helpful for students to be more engaged and active in the classroom while using this board to solve math problems together, for example, as well as for teachers to display online information for everyone to view. Another technology was the Merge Cube, which enables you to scan a cube of codes by using a smartphone in order to display an interactive image on the phone screen as a result. This can be used in the classroom during lesson plans for teachers to elaborate how certain things work more in depth such as the human body, the solar system, and much more.

https://www.fsus.school/Page/987