Tool Article #2

My Grade Book
The tool that I have chosen to use in my classroom is www.gradebook.com this is such a great thing for teachers to use. It is fast and easy to use. It lets you put in the points that the student got on the assignment, and then it calculates the percentage for you, therefore you never have to worry about doing the math. It also lets you see your class average right there. It is easy to make reports on how your class is doing. Nevertheless you can show your principal, or you can print off individual ones for parents to show how their child is doing. It lets you customize those reports to the way that you want them to be. It also lets you manage attendance online. Nevertheless you can just have the computer on at the beginning of class, and take attendance right there fast and easy. When a child is tardy or absent you can email the parents’ right from there letting them know. This will help in letting the parents know how much school their child is missing. You can also give students and parents access to see their grades online. This is nice to use so that students can stay caught up in school. Because it is on the web you can access it from anywhere that you need to. It also is backed up; you never have to worry about losing any of your data. My grade book is such a great tool for teachers to use in the classroom to keep track of grades. It had many other features included in it like creating your own quizzes, or making a seating chart downloading pictures of the students. This is a great way to put the names with the faces. I hope to one day use this tool in my classroom, because it has so many

Tool Article #1

Mapping our World :
The second tool I chose to do is Mapping our world, you can find this at http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/mapping_our_world/mapping_our_world/l/home/index.htm. I think that this is such a great tool for teachers to use in the classroom to teach students about geography.
Mapping our World explores relationships between globes and maps, and how our different projections influence the way we look at the world. There are three lessons to choose from that you can use to teach your students about maps. The first lesson is what a globe looks like. It talks about how the earth looks from space, and if a mole dug through the center of the earth where it would end up. The second lesson is about the idea of projections. It teaches about Mercators and Peters and who they were, map merging, and that there is no perfect map of the world. The third lesson is on how different projections and orientations affect our world, an another activity that helps you to match the flags with their countries, and another activity talking about do the projections of countries fit their true size, and another activity asking if one country is more important than the other.
I think that this website is such a good thing for teachers to use to teach their students about geography. It gives teachers good subjects to talk about and activities go along with them. I would like to use it in my classroom one day

GOOGLE WEBSITE

This week in class I spent time working on my google website. This has been a great thing for me to learn so that one day I can use it in my classroom. I had to do six pages the first was page was all about me so that my students can get to know the teacher that is teaching them. The second page was the announcement page. This helps with kids and parents to be able to get on this site and to know what is coming up in the classroom, and what they need to be aware of. The third page was a calendar I put things in there like Christmas Assembly, Christams Party, Spelling test etc. This was a cool thing to learn how to inbed a google calendar into a website, it will become useful one day. Then the fourth page was student od the month. I did a boy and a girl. I made up names and their favorite things to do, where they liked to eat etc., and why I chose them as student of the month. The fifth page was the homework page. This is a great page to have on the website so that students can never say that they did not know what was due. Also if a student misses a day then they can go onto the website and look up what homework is due for the next day. I did three subjects for my homewrok math, reading, and spelling, then made up homework assignments to go with them. The last page is four tools I have not finished that page yet. I hopefully should be done with it my Tuesday.
This google website has been a great thing for me to learn, and I would like to incorporate it into my classroom.