Blog Journal Six

An example of the more standard teacher page.

An example of a teacher page separate from the high school's.

I chose to do Leon High School and looked to see if they had any of their own teacher pages up on their website. They did, which came as a surprise to my as my small town high school never had anything like that set up. After going through a handful of teachers' pages I began to notice a trend in the information they provided publicly. A lot of the teachers introduced who they were and what they were teaching, and provided materials such as calendars, announcements, or even samples of what they were doing in the classroom. Some teachers made their pages right on the Leon High School website while others took it a step further and had their own separate site that linked back to the high school's. 

I think I will definitely utilize a variety of technologies both in my classroom as well as in other realms within my job as a teacher. I'm very enamored with the idea of using software such as Class Dojo on a SmartBoard in my class (which is rather unsurprising if you've seen my Independent Learning Project) but I definitely plan on using technology in other ways as well. I've fallen in love with the academic space that's been created on my EME twitter and I think networking and communicating with other people in my field is something I will continue to do as I move forward. 

The Technology sandbox was such an interesting and fun experience! I love that with every single technology they showed us they discussed some of the ways in which it could be used either in the classroom or to teach people in general. I thought the merge cube was one of the coolest technologies there, and definitely one of the ones that I could see getting the most use in a classroom setting. With this technology you take a cube with coding physically engraved on it and view it through an app, which changes the appearance of the cube through the lens of the device's camera. It can become anything depending on the programming, from the solar system to a plane engine. Because of this it has such an incredibly wide range of use and such potential for active learning, as it now allows students to literally hold what they're learning about and interact with it on an individual level.