I plan to be an elementary school teacher so I defiantly plan to use excel to record data. For lower level elementary school I plan to use excel to record students attendance and grades over the course of the year. From the grades I collected and recorded in excel I would make charts and graphs to have a visual aid to monitor the students progress. I could also have the students make graphs in excel to help them understand how to make a simple chart to show data in a science or math problem.
The blog posts that I enjoyed to look at the most was the posts with teacher websites and resourced. I think that finding out new resources that other people have reviewed and like was super interesting and gave m a bigger bank of items to use for my future classroom. Teaching is as much of a personal thing as it is a community event. This class blog really helped to make a community and form a resource full of new ideas and resources to use.
I would love to learn how to make an online virtual classroom. This would include class power-points, work, grades just a multi-function platform for my class to use and access at home. This is something that I think all schools should provide for their students. This will allow for students to keep up on work in class if they are absent as well as keep parents up to date with what work students will be doing and learning in the class. I plan to achieve this goal by talking to teachers today and seeing how they form their class website in order to form the perfect one for my own class.
