Sites



[|ESOL Connections]

Description

A Google Site I created to strengthen the home and school connection. It contains updates of important school activities at Seabrook Elementary School. It contains resources for parents to help reinforce lessons on academic vocabulary, critical academic content, and English forms and function. It has a gallery that showcases student work and activities in photos and videos. It also has links to educational websites. __Maryland Technology Standards__

[|**Standard I: Technology Information Access, Evaluation, Processing and Application**] Access, evaluate, and process information efficiently and effectively

[|**Standard II: Communication**] A. Use technology effectively and appropriately to interact electronically. B. Use technology to communicate information in a variety of formats.

[|**Standard III: Legal, Social and Ethical Issues**] Demonstrate an understanding of the legal, social, and ethical issues related to technology use.

[|**Standard IV: Assessment for Administration and Instruction**] Use technology to analyze problems and develop data-driven solutions for instructional and school improvement.

[|**Standard V: Integrating Technology into the Curriculum and Instruction**] Design, implement and assess learning experiences that incorporate use of technology in the curriculum-related instructional activity to support understanding, inquiry, problem-solving, communication or collaboration.

[|**Standard VI: Assistive Technologies**] Understand human, equity, and developmental issues surrounding the use of assistive technology to enhance student learning performance and apply that understanding to practice.

[|**Standard VII: Professional Growth**] Develop professional practices that support continual learning and professional growth in technology

__Reflection__:

These are the best of times! Often when I am on the internet connecting with friends around the world or researching and I am uber pleased with the outcomes, I would feel so grateful that I live in this day and time. You literally have the world at your finger tips. The World Wide Web has certainly afforded us the opportunity to create our boundaries: it could be as large or as small as you allow it to be. I have always wanted to create my own web site where I could fuse my students' world with my own, so they could walk in and out of my classroom door but never really leave. I have just began to create that cyber wormhole so to speak and I hope to be able to do more to entice them and their families to visit often. I hope that doing so will make a difference in the way they view learning.