Final Project Website

I really enjoyed everything I learned while creating this website. It really helped me to see how user friendly GoogleDocs is and how everything is easily compatible. As a teacher who loves using technology I have always wanted to create a class website. I just didn't know where to start and I knew that a website would take a lot of time to create. I am so glad we were given a lot of time to work on the website during class so that we could really make the site how we wanted it.

Now that I have the website created I will definitely use it as a communication tool with the parents of my students. I will continue to update it every week and revamp it every year when I get new students. I know it will still take time to maintain the website but to me, having the majority of it done through the chunked out time in class, I feel pretty good about keeping an on-going website.

Here is a link to my "finished" website. My website

Online Scavenger Hunt

I used this assignment to create an activity that I can use in my classroom. I decided to make my scavenger hunt revolving around the website Switchzoo.com. This website has fun activities for students to do such as creating their own unique animals. It also has a lot of interesting animal facts and activities to learn about habitats. I made my worksheet with questions about animal facts so the students can learn about animals as they answer the questions.

Scavenger Hunt Worksheet

Switchzoo

Death of Lincoln Slideshow

This activity reminded me of something similar I learned about using KidPix. I could have each student create a page for a letter of the alphabet. I could then combine all of their pages to make an alphabet book. I love how GoogleDocs allowed for us all to create a page at the same time and it saved them in order so that we didn't have to organize it all at the end. It was all organized and ready to go. Unfortunately, my second graders are a little young to use the program and GoogleDocs is blocked in our school district.


Completed Slideshow