Blog #9

A web based tool that I may use in my classroom is a web-site called CyberBee. It's focused on elementary school kids in like the 3rd and 4th grade. It has numerous links such as art, health and nutrition and even physical education. I would use this tool in class as either a substitute for a lesson or like a fun day in the schools' computer lab.
More specifically, though, I plan on teaching either Social Studies or English. Under the Language Arts link, they have more links that you can click on such as BookRead. The Bookread project is designed to allow teachers to and students to discuss the books they are reading with a partner classroom. So not only will I be teaching and entertaining my class, but a fellow class of the same grade.

Since I plan on teaching primary [or maybe even secondary (I'm really not sure)] English or Social Studies, I don't think that I'll use the Excel program. Maybe, if I was teaching math, but not so much for English or Social Studies. However, I think that I will use the Power Point program frequently! If I'm teaching secondary education, I'll use powerpoint for my lectures. If I'm teaching primary education, I'd use power point to illustrate a class book and to encourage class involvement.

My plans for my final project is to focus on Primary Education in the English/Writing/Language Arts department. I'm going to try to see if I could use technology to make reading and writing more fun and interesting for 3rd and 4th graders. I think that there's some software that I could buy to encourage a more vivd imagination and, in essence, encourage the kids to have a more vibrant imagination when they're writing and reading books and novels.