Rationale for Teacher Classroom Webpage

Context

In my CI3750 class, one of our projects was to make a webpage for our future elementary classroom.  We used TaskStream to create the web page and we published it to the internet.  The address for my web page is: 

http://www.taskstream.com/ts/barker9/Classroom.html the password to view this page is classroom.

On this page I added parent and student links, a listing of events, a homework page, and photo gallery.  I also created a media literacy page including a student survey on television. The media literacy page consists of research on television and children’s health and survey results from a sixth grade class at Mountain View Elementary School, Ashe County, <st1:State w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:State>. A media literacy information content area provides links and what a person can learn from the sites.

Impact

I can use this webpage in my classroom to inform students, parents, and other teachers of up coming events and assignments. The homework link will have student assignments listed with a brief description to help students and parents understand what is expected of them to complete the assignments. I will also list my e-mail address for any comments, questions or concerns from students or parents.

Alignment

I have met competencies IIB and IIC because I gave my classroom parents and students current websites for them to access information about topics in education.  I also researched a media topic on television and children’s health and gave websites and information for parents to read to learn more about television and children’s health and their child.  Our instructor gave us an accurate and current website to begin our research (www.justhink.org).

I met competency IIE because I can use this web page to manage my students' homework.  If a student is absent, he/she can look at our classroom web page to see what we did that day. 

I met competency IVB when I gave my students in my internship classroom a survey on television.  I have a page created on my classroom web page that gives the results and a summary of this data.  It is important that I understand elementary age children and their involvement with media.

I met competency VA because I have created a web page that I will continue to use in my professional career.  I can subscribe to TaskStream each year and will be able to create additional web pages such as the Story Pictures web page I made.

I met competency VIA because I sent out media release forms with my students in my internship classroom so that I could get permission to photograph them.  I made my web page password protected so that it can be viewed with permission only. 

I met competency VIC because I included a media release form in Spanish for parents in my classroom who have English as a second language.