Week five has opened my eyes to many different resources that are available to reach out to the students and parents. You have different layouts that are coming popular, such as the community layout like Facebook, or the blog layout, or recording yourself for the students to open and listen to. With the various methods that I have been introduced to this week, I feel that you should be able to reach a large variety of students with any learning style and help them to understand the material from their point of view. The ways of online communication are limitless and we have talked about just a few such as: email, chat, blogs, wikis, communities, and much more.
The things that I have learned this week that were totally new to me was the site edmodo. It is great, and the site is safe for the students to use for communication with classmates and the instructor. Also, I never realized the all the details included in my school’s AUP policy. I knew of many of the details, but had never sit down and fully read this, I am sorry to admit. I have a better understanding of what is expected with online communication in my district. Also, I use YouTube a lot in my class, but I did not know they had an educational YouTube and I was pumped to find this out and I’m sure it will get some great use from me. I have already watched the Lego Story and thought of tons of lessons for it, because my students love learning with Legos.
The informational I have learned during week five will help me to appeal to more students in my classroom and it will help me to be able to reach out to many more students in various ways. Each student learns in a different way and hopefully through the use of many of these tools I will be able to reach these students that were struggling before in my class. I will also make sure my students have a better understanding and knowledge about internet safety and correct use of online communication. Bottom-line, I feel these resources will help me to reinforce the skills the students already have in a more modern way and one they are happy to share.
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