I think that as a teacher it would be very helpful to have a website for your class. On it you could display your lesson plans, homework and other useful things that would keep the students and parents informed on whats going on it class. If a student is not telling his/her parents what is going on than they could just go look on the website or if a student misses class he/she will still know what homework is due. You could also post things like reviews to help the student study for quizes or tests that are coming up.
A teacher that I was observing for my Intro to Edu. class had one of these websites for his 6th grade history class and he said it was very helpful. The students could no longer use not knowing as an excuse because everything they needed was posted online. When they went over homework or worksheets in class the answers would be online so they could use it to study for the quiz that week. A site you could use to make a webpage would be www.teacherweb.com.
As an elementary education major I would probably use Excel as a gradebook. I would enter all my students grades into it and it would easily calculate all my averages and scores for me. It would make things a lot faster so I could spend more of my time working on lesson plans for my class and less on worrying about doing grades.
My group is doing our project on putting Photographic microscopes into high school science classrooms. These microscopes can be connected to computers through a USB cord and take pictures of the specimen you are looking at instead of having to draw it. So far we have not hit any major problems in our project.
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