UEN

I've used UEN before and I love the lesson plans that they have on there.  I know something about teaching that really scares me is coming up with all of those lesson plans for the first year.  The lesson plans are great to use.  It's also a great tool to keep track of all the lesson plans that you write.  It is really easy to create a lesson plan and that is great and it can save time.  The wimba program would be great to have in the classroom.

Blogging Again!!!

Having a blog for the class is an awesome idea.  I would love to have a blog for my class so that parents can look and see what is going on for the week.  I don't know about everyone else but I think that a weekly letter sounds extremely boring and I think that it would get really boring every week.  A blog would be so much more fun because there could be fun pictures and I could have the children add to the blog.  It would be easy access for parents and they can check it out any time of the day and they wouldn't have to worry about loosing the weekly news letter and being lost for the week.

Blogging

Well, I have never had a blog before so I'm not really sure how I am going to use it in the classroom.  Some ideas that I have on the top of my head are to have children have their own blogs.  I know that when I was in elementary I had to keep a journal about thoughts I had about the readings we did.  I think that it would be good to have children keep a journal about the thoughts that they have about the readings we do each day.  This can be a fun way for them to express themselves because they could find pictures, quotes, and other thoughts on the readings.  I think it would be interesting to have them comment on other peoples thoughts because sometime children share a lot more when they just have to write it instead of saying it in front of the class.  It could make children more open to express their opinions and thoughts about other student's work.