Blog Journal 7

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     For this blog, I went to the Leon High School website and clicked on a random teacher's name, and found a mild level website through the High School itself. It is noticeably difficult to find a teacher website because of the "canvas" type website that their information is normally stored through, so I got a very basic level of website such as resources and announcements. I found a good segment for resources for all of these different classes, with different resources for each level of french class. With this, I think that having the classlink login I could get a lot more information, but I understand the security of locking down a classes information from the public.

    I think that I will use technology to accomplish my professional responsibilities more efficiently by ensuring that I have a schedule, alongside a list of things to accomplish at each step. I think that announcements and things like that which are automated might be something that is super useful for me involving preplanning, and things like canvas quizzes feel like something that would benefit me a lot. I think that with the powerpoint based lectures, alongside learning how to record my own virtual lecture from an assignment in another class is super useful. I think that most importantly learning how to navigate a site like canvas or classlink as an "administrator" will be my greatest tool however.

     I think that the wiki was something useful, but it did give me some difficulty. I think that the nature of these sites is good, but I just have a hard time navigating them to be honest. With the massive influx of things like squarespace and things like that for website production, I might need someone to help me be able to really get them set up in a way that I feel comfortable with. I would not feel comfortable having students use something that I personally feel unable to navigate.

 
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