UEN! Great fun when it actually works!

So today in my educational technology we learned about and created an account on the UEN website. I think that this is going to be a great tool to use as an educator. I love that it has available so easy the core curriculum for each grade and different subjects. I also love all the videos and interactive activities that you can so easily access. Incorporating the UEN website into the classroom will allow students to be more engaged. This will really make teaching and planning lessons so much easier. There is now so much information and technologies and resources available to teachers. I am excited to explore and use it.

Education Assignment

So this is all very new to me. I have never had a blog before, nor have I had many experiences looking at other people's blogs. It is always crazy to me to see how technology and communication is continually changing and I sometimes feel that I am behind the times even when I was born in the computer generation.

So for my technology in education class, we had the assignment to create a blog. I think that blogs would potentially be very helpful to a classroom. I think especially blogs would allow parents to access student's missed or lost homework. It would also be a great way for parents to see what their child is doing in school and also make comments or questions for the teacher.

I think it would be very beneficial to have students have a daily journal that they can write on the classroom blog. This way they can not only see their own publication on a website, but they can also read and comment on their fellow students postings. I still think that traditional daily journals would be beneficial for students to practice their writing, especially handwriting skills. I would maybe have students once a week post a journal entry on the classroom blog. This way their stories or ideas can be posted for other students to see.