Blog Post Number 9

One web resource that I feel I might use as a teacher is a website called enchantedlearning.com. I had a teacher in middle school who used this website a lot so I became pretty familiar with it. Enchanted learning.com is a website that offers resources to teachers such as lesson plans, handouts or worksheets and background reading and information. Even if a teacher wanted to create his or her own resources, it has a lot of ideas and jumping points.
The website design is user-friendly, and easy to navigate. When you enter the site they have an area for each resource that they offer, and the user can select which resource they wish to utilize. Furthermore, the site is copyright friendly and making copies is allowed, so none of those issues need to be worried about. It is a great site, and I hope you all enjoy.

I am going to be teaching middle school English, therefore I will not much have to worry about spreadsheets, Excel and similar programs so much as incorporations of my lessons. However, I will be using spreadsheet programs in order to organize grades and maintain a gradebook. Before this class, whenever I needed to use Excel I was completely lost and had no idea how to use the program. This class has not only taught me how to create a basic data table, which I could not even do before, but has taught me such valuable features as calculating averages, medians, minimum, maximum and more. The skills I have learned in this class regarding these programs are beyond valuable.

For the final course project I am teamed with the Zach’s, and everything is going well. The only obstacle we faced was when we discovered that we would have to change our idea since the original idea we had was to create a “technology lab” for the students to use after school. However, we later discovered that the school in question already has a computer lab. However, this obstacle was quickly solved and I believe our new idea is even better. We are creating a Marine Biology lab for the students, and I think it’s going to go over really well.