Post #6

Web Sites, Technology, and Web Site Evaluation

     When I become an English teacher, I am going to create a class website.  I think that it would be extremely useful and would especially help keep the parents connected to the class.  I would make the website fun and interactive and it would provide a place that I could put up links for any online homework assignments.  I would keep the homework assignments on the website so that students could always refer to it if they had any questions.  I think that it would be worth the trouble because students could refer to the website if they had any questions before asking me. 

     I will definitely use technology to maintain and further develop my skills as a teacher.  Through forums and websites, I will communicate with other English teachers so that we can pool our best ideas and projects.  I will use online sources to keep up to date with criticisms and analyses of novels so that I am teaching my students up-to-date information.  I will also search the internet for new novels that will be best suited to my students' needs.

     I did not particularly like the last assignment, Web Site Evaluation.  I was already aware of what to look for to make sure that a website is credible, so I didn't learn very much from it.  I also found that it was very difficult to write an entire page single-spaced about the assignment.  Most of it was common sense and hard to elaborate on.  I will not need to use a website evaluation as a high school teacher, as most students should already be aware of how to find a credible website.