Why Teachers Should Have Their Own Websites Ed

Why Teachers Should Have Their Own Websites Ed Wesly TIE 542 Spring 2007

THE WEB SITE AS AN ARCHIVE • • Syllabus Assignments Samples of Previous Semester’s Work Supplementary Text

• The Teacher can provide HOT LINKS to Supplementary Sources of Information that will have the answers to the Inquiry quicker and without getting side-tracked. DANGER! Sometimes it’s more educational to get side-tracked!

STUDENTS CAN PICK UP AND DROP OFF ASSIGNMENTS • Eliminate Paper Waste! • Could not only make assignments fulfilled by never having to deal with hard copy, only electronic forms, plus automatically graded! HEAR, HEAR!

STUDENTS CAN DOWNLOAD POWERPOINTS FROM LECTURES THAT THEY MAY HAVE MISSED • DANGER! Printing them out could waste paper!

IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK! • STUDENTS COULD BE CONTINUALLY APPRISED OF THEIR PROGRESS I GOT AN “A”

More On ON-LINE GRADES DANGER! The Teacher really needs to be on the ball!

Collaborations could be arranged with similar classes around the world

The Teacher Can Add a Personal Page to Their Website • Describe their Life outside the classroom involving family, hobbies, musical tastes, etc. • Designed to make the teacher look more human • DANGER! Revealing too much may open up the teacher to ridicule.

BLOGS CAN BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF A TEACHER’S SITE

I WANT TO BUILD MY OWN! WHERE CAN I GO FOR HELP?

• • • HERE ARE SOME SITES WITH TEMPLATES TO BUILD YOUR OWN! http: //www. oswego. org/staff/cchamber/ webdesign/edwebdesign. htm www. tashian. com www. webdiner. com www. enc. org

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