Reflection #3: Google Sites

I learned a lot about google sites this week. For our assignment we had to create and include items on our own google site. I really enjoyed this assignment. Putting the google site together was a lot of fun. I will use it in my classes today and use a lot of the information that i put onto my site. I think we are doing this assignment because technology is becoming bigger and bigger in our classrooms. With the google site you can upload items and assignments and have announcements and things so the parents can be involved if they want to be. A lot of times parents don't want to take the time to contact the teacher or the school to find out what their student missed or whats going on at the school, with the google site option the parents can look up all of that information if they want from anywhere that has an Internet connection. i have learned a great deal by doing this assignment. If i as a teacher do all of this to help out my parents and students then i can become a better teacher and have more input from my students parents. We as colleagues can use google sites as well to collaborate on different things as needs be. I really love that option! I can use this technology and make a different google site if i wanted to because i now have that option. I can give my students assignments on my site that they have to do at home. It can be games, interactives, virtual field trips, or all sorts of different things..the options are endless. I am excited for my options as a future teacher! With this type of technology and the technology that is yet to be created, we as teachers will have so many options that we wont know what to do with ourselves! I LOVE IT!!!