UNIT 3 Managing the Technology in PE
Moving Forward
Now that we have seen a few examples of different pieces of usable technology as well as a few different ways to integrate them into your lessons, we must see how we can manage their positive attributes. We also want to create a space that can house all of our major documents that are so critical to the courses we teach. You can store printable versions of your syllabus, grading rubrics, copies of assessments, attendance sheets and grades.
Objectives
In this unit we will:
- Learn where we can display information for students, parents and administrators to view.
- How to set up the site
- How to manage students privacy on the sites.
Where to go
When first looking to start a website for you to manage your classes, the first place you should go is to your district's technology liaison to see if your school already has a site creator that they would like you to use. Most districts now have a site network that they pay for and that allows teachers to easily create and manage their own classroom pages. They do this in order to maintain symmetry between different teachers pages. While these are easy and can be basically set up for you, you are limited in the content you can post. Many will not allow you to host YouTube clips, and are very limited in their capacity to customize the look of your site. There are however multiple highly customizable, effective and FREE sites that you can use to build a site of your own. They are very easy to use for even a novice computer user. They will allow you to embed videos as well as allow others to post comments and discussions.
A few examples of these sites are:
Mini lessons
In our mini lessons, we are going to learn how to build a classroom website using the Blogger site. I feel that it is the easiest and most convenient site for a beginner to use.
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