Web+2.0

When I become a teacher there are many things that I can use to help teach my students. Some of the many things that I could use are the web 2.0 sights on the world wide web. There are many sights that can be used for different things be it presentation, research, or writing. Web 2.0 will be a good tool for me when I need to use things other then the blackboard (or whiteboard) to show my students what they need to learn.

One of the many sites that I could use is What2Learn. This site is a good source for not only English teachers but others as well, for example there are math problems that can be used for math teachers. This site has a section for teachers, students, parents, and subject leaders. The teachers section has a place where you can track what your students are doing and this section also makes it so that you don’t have to mark anything yourself, it grades the activities itself. The student section lets the students make their own avatars for themselves as well as share their scores with their friends. The parents section lets them track their child’s grades to know how they are doing. The subject leaders section lets people track the scores of many different students that are in the section that they are making the activities for. This site could be very useful for me. The literacy section is really good for my future students. After doing some of the sections activities it would without a doubt be good for me. The activity where you listen to the words and then spell them is really good for people to learn how to spell words just from hearing how the word is pronounced. What2Learn will be really good for my students, this site can help my students and also I would have less to mark if I have some other essays that are taking up a lot of my time.

Another one of the sites I could use is Grammar Grater. This is a podcast that tells about the different ways that words can be used and how to use them correctly and to use grammar correctly. A few of the podcasts are about different things like how to use the ellipses or words that sound alike but actually mean entirely different things and there are even special episodes like the one about Halloween words. The site has repeat episodes and also has a section to read the article, download it, or listen to it. There is also a section to join the discussion. This would be good for my students because if there is a certain word or section that my students aren’t catching on about I can have them listen to the podcast and see if they are catching up with the other students. I can even have sections that are listened to during class sections. Grammar Grater will be a good site for me to use. It could really help my students learn things that they don’t always understand when I teach it. Sometimes just having a lesson explained in a different way can really help a person understand what is happening.

A presentation site that I could use is Prezi. This site is used to make slideshows more fun. At the beginning of the show you can see the whole show and then you can zoom into different parts to make the point shown. This site makes presentations that are more sophisticated than power point, these shows are more circular than the linear power point presentations. I have seen a previous presentation using this site and I found it very interesting, it is kind of cool to know what is going to be the main points of the presentation before it happens. I think it would be interesting to use this website to show my students how things are to be used. This site is really good for making presentations and it would make them more interesting for my students to watch and more fun for me to make to show to my students.

A site that would be very good for me is ClassMarker. This site would be very good for my students. a few of the features that this site has is that tests are graded right away and ready for students to view, you can randomize the test questions and even set time limits for them, you can create online tests with combined multiple choice, true false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank, punctuation and essay questions types, and all your data stays secure and private. This site would be very good for me because it is a good tool for English teachers. I can have my students do the tests as a homework project and it would be graded instantly so that they know how well they know the material. Also since the questions will be written by me directly I will be able to make them about specific passages from the readings my students will have to know to see if they are actually reading the stories or if they are only reading part or skimming the story for important information that they can use in essays without actually finishing the text. This site would be perfect for me so that I don’t spend so much time going over a lot of different questions, I could only grade the essays and short answer and the rest would be up to the program to check if it is correct.

Another one of the sites that I can use is EduBlogs. This site is really good for students to read other people’s essays and to give their own feedback on how they think it has been done and if they think that the writing is really good they can say so or if they don’t understand what is being said they can ask what is being said so that it can be redone so that it makes more sense for the reader. I have used this site before so I know how good it is to have your peers read your essays and tell you what you think. EduBlogs is a good site to use for my students.

There are many different sites that I can use to help my students achieve greatness in the class room, these are just a few. Many of the sites could be used to explain many different things that could help my students,r even myself, to make the classroom a fun environment and to make my students enjoy learning about English and to understand the stories that they are reading. The use of Web 2.0 will make my classroom and teaching fast and efficient while giving me more time to plan other things for my class to do that are entertaining while at the same time teach a valuable lesson. The WWW can make teaching students the things they need to learn way more effective, if they think it is fun they will be more likely to want to do it.