Blog post #7

 Countryside High (hs) / Homepage

On this website of the high school I attended, an abundance of information is presented in an orderly manner with tabs that help a parent or student navigate it. Details on all of the school events going on are provided as well as contact information and descriptions of each staff member. Viewers of the site can see the names and emails of every teacher as well as what room they are in and what subject they teach. teachers can also provide as much extra information on top of this as they want, meaning that some teachers have included syllabi or links to set up meetings.

In my own teaching in the future, I will most certainly use technology to organize my plans. I will take an idea I have seen several professors using which is the use of the site "calendly" to set up conferences and meetings with parents and students that my need extra help outside of classroom hours. I will also use features that are built into canvas as I assume that this site will remain an integral part of teaching for the foreseeable future. For example, I will use several pages on my class canvas page to keep due dates, future assignments and activities in order.

I quite enjoyed the canvas group tool. It allowed my partner and I to easily complete the individual portions of the assignment by creating our own pages. It also made it very easy to create a home page that links to all the other pages through the "internal links" feature. I cannot think of any other software that would have made this type of group work easier.

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