Chapter 6 Blog
10/4/2012
Focus Question: How
do teachers organize electronic resources to address curriculum frameworks and learning
standards? Teachers are extremely busy with many different responsibilities so
one important tool is to manage information electronically and to stay
organized. Teachers can find all CPALMS
and Nets on line via the web. The web
has vast amounts of information teachers can utilize “Information management –
the process of finding, organizing and using information “as stated in our text
“Transforming Learning with New Technologies” is a useful tool. The web has a plethora of information that is
at times is more current than textbooks.
School systems budgets are so strained that teachers can use the web to
enhance their lesson plans. Digital
bookmarking or adding “favorites” in websites such as “Delicious” is an
excellent resource to save important information and links.
Tech Tool: 6.2 Delicious
website. Delicious is an exciting tool
that teachers can use to bookmark or save their “favorites” on the web. This website is free to join; when adding new
links you can use tags to describe the website such as: government, politics, and
journalism. Delicious allows you to edit
your profile with pictures; share information even can tweet for this
website. This website is an example of
one tool teachers can use or organize sites by subject, grade level, learning
standards and many more.
Chapter Summary: Chapter
6 begins with information management. It describes how teachers can manage
information at their fingertips. The web can be overwhelming so when searching
the web using tools such as “Delicious” is an excellent resource. As a teacher it’s
important to stay organized and keep your “favorites” in one site. Personally, I was never aware such tools existed.
I have digitally bookmarked every link that
I have found interesting and useful in my Delicious account, utilizing the tags
features Web Quest and Visual field trips are engaging tools that students will
love. These interactive websites
encourage students to access pictures, audio and video and are engaging activities
that students will like. There are many
different educational websites such as; lesson plan websites, skills/practice
website even exploration and discovery websites to name a few. Teachers have so
much paper clutter so using technology to alleviate electronic clutter will
give them the ability to find resources at their fingertips.
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ReplyDeleteHello Molly. As you stated in your post, it is a fact the field of teaching, today, is very demanding. Educators, besides teaching, have to fill out a lot of paperwork, attend to meetings with administrators, others teachers, or parents, prepare for evaluations, take additional training to keep updated, even serve "duties" such as watching hallways or the cafeteria. Moreover, many teachers are involved in after school teaching, or activities such as coaching sports. Websites offer the necessary resources to alleviate their loads of work, ease their jobs requirements, and save time. The following ones assist very well on the numerous tasks required daily to the teachers, as well as to manage paper flow:
ReplyDeletewww.lessonplans.com , www.rubrics.com , www.portalportal.com
Thanks for an interesting post.
Thank you Alix I appreciate your input. I used to work for the school system so I understand the challenges faced by teachers. Hopefully after this class I can use all the tools I have learned in class to be an organized teacher.
ReplyDeleteDelicious is, indeed, a valuable tool for management and also for collaboration! Once you start using it, you depend on it and can't imagine living without it! Do remember to link your websites on your posts, Molly - that is one of the benefits of creating a blog (as well as an expectation for this class)! :)
ReplyDeleteI hear you loud and clear - Thank you
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