Blog Post #7

     I visited a few websites part of the English department. I noticed most of them have a welcome page, a bio, and an assignments/announcements page. Katherine Quick's website has a calendar linked on her page. On this calendar, there are assignments listed and a basic schedule for what each week will entail. I feel like this is especially helpful to the student if they are sick, going on a trip, or just want to get ahead.

https://www.leonschools.net//site/Default.aspx?PageID=9923 

    As a teacher, I think a website is a good thing to have to keep parents updated and students as well. I think creating newsletters is also something I will do in my future career. I can also imagine myself using Pinterest to come up with creative lesson plans and Instagram as well. Furthermore, in the classroom I think YouTube is a good resource to use to add to the lessons and reiterate material. I will also be sure to use Remind or a platform like that to communicate with parents and be sure to keep them in the loop.

    I found the Canvas group tool to be a little confusing at first but I think our project came out very well. I had never used the tool before and I did not know how it was going to work out. I did not like the fact that you had to manually save everything after you did it because if not it would be lost. I did think that it was an easy way to organize all of the information with the homepage and then links to other ones. 

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