One goal I have for myself is to develop the space I have been given on my school's website. Each teacher can add a link to his or her own page. I have received a very brief, initial training on how to do this, but I'd like to pursue it further. A great resource I have to help meet this goal is my school's media specialist. I'd like to ask her if she'd sit down with me in the fall and walk me through the options I have for setting up my page. By the first day of school, I would like to have at least a welcome to my classroom blurb on my page, supply list, weekly schedule, as well as a little about me and my contact information.
My second goal is to begin a blog with my students where they can help me write about the books I read aloud to them during the year. This is something I could set up easily, so I'd like to have it set up by the second or third week of school. I'd also like to have my kids respond to our blog posts with their own personal feelings and opinions during our trips to the computer lab. We could even invite other classes to participate as well.
Finally, I'd like to find a website that has daily news for kids. I would like to spend a few minutes everyday, or maybe just once a week reading a current events story with my students. This is also something I could implement right from the first day of school, so I will need to find an appropriate website during my inservice week before the students come back to school.
I will know I have met these goals if by the beginning of the school year, I have my website and blog established, and have found a good kid's news website.
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