One of the major things that set me out from the other candidates that applied for my job was relatively low fear of technology. Since I have started my job I have consistently updated my website each year. Every time I update the website I will add another dimension to its existing capabilities. We use the rschool system at my school, this serves as a good template where the teacher just has to essentially punch in the information and the program puts it into html language.
The first year I put up vocabulary flash cards and lesson plans for 9th grade since I teach three sections of 9th grade language arts. The next year I put up 9th and 10th grade, partially because I wanted to expand, but also because it was expected of me. This past year I put up lesson plans, links, and flashcards for all of my classes. Since the beginning of this course I have began experimenting with new features on my website. Some things that I have recently tried are surveys and discussion forums. The discussion forums have been wildly successful as a tool for collaboration and studying. In February I got 1400 hits on website, when you consider that I only have about 115 students, that’s pretty successful. Having good online communication has also helped reach out to parents and a lot less of my time is spent soothing parents, which is priceless at the high school level.
Link to my site: http://www.rschooltoday.com/se3bin/clientgenie.cgi
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ReplyDeleteGo to www.bold.k12.mn.us
then go to schools, to high school, to english, to Mr. Tanttila
The dropbox looks just D2L. Do you use it a lot?
ReplyDeleteThe student's have begun to use it more and more, they like it. I have yet to make anything mandatory though.
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