| There
are so many ways to use technology in the classroom. These are just
a few of the ways that you can use technology as a professional in your
career and as an educator in your classroom. Technology is a life
long skill that your students will use long after they leave your
classroom. It will help them now and later. |
Professional
Connections
There are many ways to use technology as a professional that affect
your classroom but may it directly involve or affect your students:
- Newsletters
- Class Web Sites
- Data Organization (databases and
spreadsheets)
- Email networking with colleagues
- Presentations and documents for
seminars, workshops, parent/curriculum nights, etc.
Practical Connections
- Students can use productivity tools
to create documents and presentations.
- Students can publish work to the web.
- Students can view their work and
communicate with you.
- Parents can view work, get
information, and communicate with you.
- Here are some ways that I have used
technology in my classroom that have proved successful:
- Classroom website
5M
- Created a classroom handbook in Word,
saved as PDF, and
placed online
- Created a parent email group for quick
and easy communication
- Created a parent night presentation to
model the technology and present the needed information Parent
Night
- Created a class spreadsheet with contact
info, birthdays, etc. for easy access and sorting
- Place study
guides and practice test online for download
- Update homework
nightly and provide guidelines
to projects and pictures
of completed projects
- Created review games
Math
Game
- Had students create websites as choice
projects Mars
Page
- Allow students to create homework on
computer at home and email it to me
- Students create presentations for
Social
Studies, more
- Students create graphs
(more) to present and then print after collecting and analyzing data
- Classroom newsletter
with student spotlight and picture
- Scan student work for inclusion in
projects and presentations
- Create hotlists for students to use when
searching and researching
Purposeful Connections Make
sure you know your purpose no matter how you decide to use technology in
your classroom. Whether it involves the Internet, PowerPoint, Word
or any other available technology, we must remain purpose-driven to be
effective. |
