UEN and Me

UEN to me is the fastest way to access state core and standards. Instead of taking my core handbook back and forth from school to home, I can hop on UEN at home and have easy access. I am very computer oriented, so it is easier for me to create a lesson plan on a computer rather than to write it out, I can type faster than I can write. Having lesson templates and lesson ideas would make it all the easier for me. One thing, I would always want to make sure that I am tweaking the lesson plans to fit my classroom, instead of copying and pasting.

Looking around UEN I have noticed that there are also places for teachers to bounce ideas off of each other and to get quick teaching tips.

I am also hoping that they have an area for how to incorporate technology into the classroom!

Blogging in my Classroom

I plan on teaching in the lower grades, 1-3. If I were to have a blog for my classroom it would just be weekly updates. I would put the blog address on a paper that would go home, it would most likely be a locked blog that they would have to sign in to see.

I think it would also be a good idea for each of the kids to have a section of the classroom blog that is theirs, where they could put up pictures of what they have done or post about their work. When there was free time in the class the students could get on a computer and look at or write on the classroom blog. Potentially I could print out the blog pages of my classroom and make books for each of the students at the end of the year. I would only use blogs in my classroom as updates and recreational use, not for school work. My students would be too young for that.