I am so grateful that I have gotten to learn how to make a website/blog for myself. I have never done any of this before and I think it is fun and will be very useful to me in the future. I was especially excited to learn how to embed things like videos into my website because before, all I knew how to do was copy and past an ugly link onto the page. Having the video right there is a lot cooler. I would have to say that embedding the map into my website so that it would look how I wanted was the most tricky part of the assignment. It was the most complicated step I think for all of us, but I got my map up there so I guess that's the most important thing. All the time I spent messing with the size of it and all that was just the nit picky, perfectionist stuff.
I really do think that I will use a website when I am a teacher. I think it will be useful to me, my students, and the parents in many ways. I think it will be useful for parents to know what their kids are doing in class and to find quick information about how to contact me. I also think that it creates even more opportunities for the students to continue their learning outside of class. Maybe not all students will use it, but maybe some will and that's good enough for me. I hope that through a website I will be able to show my students how to access valuable, fun, and interesting information on the Internet. Also, I would like to have the website available to post assignments and things so that my students will never have an excuse for not knowing a due date or for losing a paper. I will not let this replace my actual assigning and handing out of assignments in class, however, because not all students may have easy access to a computer or the Internet at home. I don't want that to hurt their learning abilities or grades in anyway when its not their fault if they don't have a computer.
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