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. 

On this web page I surveyed the students about television and reflected on it. I also included calendar/events in the classroom, homework page, student page, parent page, and photo gallery.  The address for my web page is:

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

Impact

I can use this web page in my classroom when I am a teacher. Parents can access this web site when they want to know what is going on in the classroom and to check on homework assignments. It is also helpful in giving websites to the parents, so they can look up topics or get homework help.  This is also a fast, easy way to correspond with me.

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 gave websites and information for parents to read to learn more about television viewing 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 about televison.  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.