Rationale for Teacher Classroom Webpage

Context

In my CI 3750 class, one of our projects was to make a webpage for our future elementary classroom.  After completion, I used this project with first grade students at Mountain View Elementary School in Ashe County, <st1:State w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:State>.  Along with Allison Chrisawn, I created a survey about television viewing to evaluate how media influences young children.

I created a home page, a calendar/events page with calendar, a homework page, a student page, a parent page, an internship photo gallery page, media literacy page, and media literacy content section.  Then I used TaskStream to create the web page and published it to the internet.  The address for my web page is:

 http://www.taskstream.com/ts/dillard3/Classroom.html

The password for this account is classroom.

Impact

As a teacher, I will be able to use this webpage activity to teach students and inform parents about the influences of media.  Media forms such as television viewing effect students in positive and negative ways.  It is important for students, parents, and teachers to understand the significance of these effects.  After surveying students, I am more aware of the impact that T.V. viewing has on students.

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 (television viewing) and gave websites and information for parents to read to learn more about how television influences their child.  My 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 my classroom web page to see what we did that day. 

I met competency IVB when I gave some of my students in my internship classroom a survey about television viewing.  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.