It's already Week 8 π₯³π₯³π₯³ Hope that everyone is doing great in their classes (especially Mid-term exams) and personal activities!
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School Web Pages I have visited some class webpages designed by teachers at Jackson Elementary (A Seymour Community School). Most of these sites include the teacher's name, a profile picture (or a header picture), contact information (primarily email address), external links to numerous learning resources, and a class calendar. Teachers also put in their pages expectations or agendas for their classes. Students and parents may also find instructions for daily assignments and projects on these online sites publicly. Below here is a screenshot of a Jackson Elementary teacher.
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Teacher Productivity Tools
As a teacher, I will need to develop daily plans and assignments, manage students' information, lecture lessons, and communicate with supervisors, parents, and students. I would use Google Drive, Grammarly, and Zalo to help me keep track of my responsibilities. With Google Drive, I can store my documents, videos, PowerPoints, etc. all in one online place. I can also categorize them into smaller folders so that I can find what I need quicker. With Grammarly, I can check for spelling and grammar mistakes more easily. It also provides suggestions to revise certain sentences to make a whole paragraph or essay more organized and easier to understand. Finally, with Zalo, a popular communication app used in Vietnam (and is also similar to Messenger), I can send messages, photos, and files to my colleagues or students in real-time.
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Wiki Platform/PBWorks
Personally, PBWorks is quite easy to use after I got familiar with its tools and features. When I work on my personal wiki space, I can freely change things and pages; however, when I work on a group wiki, the page's owner needs to change regular users' status to administrators to fully access different functions. Besides, I don't really like how the editing tab works. The fonts and sizes keep changing whenever I go to another paragraph or copy and paste information from one page to another. Still, my team did a great job on our group assignment, and I am happy about that!
Hi Linnie! I always enjoy reading your blogs! My experience with PB Works was similar to yours, however, I never found it easy to use. I also did not like how fonts would change. For me, there were times that I would link a page and it would open to different pages every time I clinked the link. Overall, I did not have a great experience with PB Works.
ReplyDeleteHello Linnie! Once again, I loved reading your blog! This layout is still incredible!
ReplyDeleteI like the functionality of the class page you chose. It fulfills the goal of explaining a class and facilitating communication. I'm still not the biggest fan of how much information that it gives out, but I am not huge about revealing information about myself on the internet in the first place.
I like your plans for technology uses a lot. I think that using Google Drive to store your documents is brilliant. If your computer ever gets lost or damaged, you will still have access to all of your documents. I have never heard of Zalo, but it sounds like a valuable tool! Communication applications are exceptionally helpful, especially in teaching.
We have the same issues with PBWorks. In fact, it seems as if most of us do. The editing was a huge issue, and a giant pain in the ass for us all. The font issue was driving me up the wall! I just wanted my page to look nice, and PBWorks made it so hard to do that!!
Hey Linnie! I liked how you broke down they ways you can use Google Drive, which will be very important to me as a future educator. It gave me a great idea on how to keep my future online work organized and availble all the time. I also didn't enjoy how PBWroks made you request to edit and the way the editing tab worked. I found it abit frustrating until I finally managed to figure it out. Have a great week!!! :)
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