Blog Journal 7

As a teacher, especially a new one, I think having a course website would be very helpful. Although there is a lot of up keep with them, having somewhere where students can find information before asking me would be super helpful and efficient. On there, i would be able to post notes that absent students miss, as well as assignments and a calendar.

An interesting software I would like to use in my classroom is Grammarly. Grammarly is an extension software you can put on your browser that will follow you as you type and highlight mistakes you make, such as spelling and grammar mistakes. In a classroom, this can be helpful for students to proofread their essays and work before turning them in and losing points for bad grammar.

https://www.grammarly.com/

In the future, I expect to use the electronic spreadsheets that is mentioned in chapter 5 of the textbook. Currently, I am looking into Master’s Programs and I use an Excel spreadsheet to keep all of the important information in one space, such as deadlines for applications and scores i need for the GRE. As a teacher, i would imagine that using this service would make it easier to keep things in order, such as lists with students names and maybe lunch numbers, and dates with special events.

As for the Web Evaluation assignment, I did not complete this assignments, but I looked at the examples and it seems as though I would have been very helpful. The set up seemed to look difficult, and I feel like I would have struggled coming up with questions to ask, but those would have been good skills to have.

I commented on Benjamin and Jordan’s blogs!