I just registered my school, Pioneer Elementary, for the edu2.0 free online webschool. Visit it at http://pioneerelementary.edu20.org. This website allows you to teach a class, start blogs, post lessons, teach online lessons, and use grading tools. It has great tutorials showing how to use the system. I still have a lot to explore, create and figure out.
I envision using this website as a supplemental source for the parents and students. I am interested in the great assessment tools. I see this as a site parents can go to monitor their student’s progress. They can also see upcoming events, projects, and homework assignments. It would solve concerns parents have if their student is turning in homework and mastering the concepts. I know many parents come to parent teacher conferences where they find out for the first time how their students are doing. Many times they get frustrated cause they claim they didn’t know about this. With an online system, parents can be updated daily.
For the class lessons, I think I would provide a weekly outline of what our students would be learning. I would also add powerful websites the students could go to for additional help for concept mastery.
I would also like to start parent-based forums on ideas or concepts to use in the classroom. Since this is for earlier childhood education the forum would be focused more toward the parents. It gives the parents an opportunity to get actively involved in their child’s education even if they work full time.
It is amazing how easy they make it now to register a school online. It seems like it might be a lot of work at first, but very much worth it in the long run. I can’t wait to share this with other teachers at Pioneer Elementary.
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