Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Integrating online math for kindergarten

I picked the math corner and I found a really cool website that has a place for students to do virtual math. The website walks students through math problems and lets the student work through each problem helping them understand what they are doing. I think it would be really helpful for kindergartners to have this integrated in either class work or homework where the parents can sit down with them at home and help them do homework. The website includes bar charts, teaching students to use graphs and charts for class or anything they might need them for.

I think this is important for a class because if students are having trouble in math they can go on this virtual website and learn what they may have missed or were having trouble with in class. The parents of the child could help them with whatever they are behind in, in class. But I think others would think this was interesting because they never know how they can help their students with class work or what they are having trouble with, so all the parents would have to do is just jump on the computer and go to that website and it will be fun for the student, it has building blocks and everything.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Integrating Blogs

There are different ways you could integrate blogging into your classrooms, even for the younger grades. I remember in elementary when we would have our journals and write about random topics the teacher would handout. As I've grown up computer have been thrown into classes more and more. Now teachers are putting computers in classrooms and adding work involving computers to help students get a head start on technology. One thing you could do is instead of writing in a journal, as a future teacher, I could get students blogging, where every student could see each other's blogs and they could see what they had in common on some grounds, also they opinions of fellow classmates.
some benefits of blogging are that it gets the students to know more about each other. They will get better at writing as are they are doing something fun and reading other students blogs. I have never blogged before and this will be my first time, but if I was introduced to it at a younger age and was able to see the opinions of other classmates. I think it would have been better for me and the other students. But blogging is a useful tool in this society. You get to hear others opinions, feelings, and ideas about random and cool stuff.