School and Teacher Blogs

I found this teacher's blog (http://nperal.tblog.com/) through Blogheads. This is a blog between a teacher and her students. She made herself a superhero character named SuperThinker. She starts each blog with, "Hello boys and girls! It is I, SuperThinker..." She has links and archives that are there for use also. She uses it to remind students of assignments, extra readings, and just to find out how her students are doing. She also gives examples of items on the assignment that she gave the students in class.


Another blog that I liked was the Hamilton-Maineville Elementary school blog (http://littlemiamischools.com/hm/). This was a well organized site for a school with useful information. The homepage featured recent posts which included congratulations and importanat events for the month posts. The listing of links were sites for, contact information, school hours, little miami schools, superintendent, maineville teachers and staff, teacher websites, important events, maineville photos, parent progress book log-in, cafe prepay, maineville PTO, and membership join now and log-in links.

ACCESS

The ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide)program is another website made available for the benefit of teachers, students, and administrators. ACCESS can also be accessed through, ALEX, another great website we viewed previously. This program is specifically being used to improve the Alabama school system.
ACCESS's main purpose is to provide a high quality education for students and teachers. It offers a technological advance on education by providing advanced courses not provided by schools. It also offers the teachers, students, and administrators videoconferencing opportunities and web based instruction. This program opens up a chance to expand student learning by allowing the students to interact with students from other schools. The best part of this program is that it is funded by the federal government. ACCESS brings in the outside resources needed by most schools in Alabama.

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This is a picture of a sunset!

ALEX in the Classroom

The ALEX website can be a really good resource for teachers. The course of study is broken down by subject. Each subject there is a listing of grades and specific subject matter. Under the subject there are web links, lesson plans, and a brief description of what the student should learn.
Teachers have access to lesson plans, news letters, educational message boards, research, and leadership information. ALEX is also used as a search engine, reference, and guide for students. There are links provided specificly for students to help them with their research. Overall, this site is beneficial for the teacher and for the student.

ALEX

The Alabama learning exchange is a great website. I haven't heard of this site until now. It offers resources for the needs of teachers, administrators, parents, and students. It offers links, activities, and the opinions of other teachers.
The website is broken into eight sections. There is a section for a courses of study, web links, lesson plans, search, personal workspace, professional learning, distance learning, and help. Under each section, there are specific links that are more detailed to cater to each person's interest. The web links section has a teacher web link that is designed to help teachers for each course or subject of study. This ranges from lesson plans to helpful links.

thefischbowl.blogspot movie

The "Did you know?" movie turned out to be very interesting to me. The stats that were given during the movie were almost unbelievable. I didn't realize that the world was so dependent on the web. It seems like that's what everything is centered around now. I agree with the movie about getting our children prepared for this big change or update in computer technology.

Just making sure my blog still works

I hope everyone is having a good week so far!

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