UEN: The most awesomeness resource......ever

Today i found a great resource called the Utah Education Network. We had a few troubles at first but for the most part it all worked out. You can do many things with it such as make lesson plans, find videos, and pictures. You can use many of these things in your classroom. Holy. Stop the presses. I just found out they have magic school bus videos on this website. Oh happy day. This makes my heart grow 2 sizes larger. There have been many days when i wake up and wish there was a magic school bus video on. I wonder what other videos are on the website? I will go to check it out. You can also use wimba classroom which is just straight dope. You can have a whiteboard and draw on it. You can also join other peoples rooms and chat it up all days long.

Blogging in the classroom

Sup Dawgs,
There are many ways in which I could see blogging in the classroom to be very helpful. You can post things that parents might want to see. You can have attachments or extra copies of the homework, announcements, and permission slips online so hte parents can print off a new one if the student or parent loses it. You can also let parents know what you did every day and see what the children are learning about.

There also are some disadvantages to this. Basically if the parents are not really tech savy then it would be pointless for them as they could not see it. Also the parents might not realize what they post can be seen by everyone and they may put up personal information that they do not want others to see. You would really have to emphasize that if they are going to tell you personal information that they must do it in another way.

This is Nick Baker signing off.
Hope you have a fannnntasitic day.