Thursday, December 20, 2007

Thing 6

Thing 6. Teacher Guide to the Research Project Calculator

I have gone through many ups and downs with learning about the Research Project Calculator. Right now I am at an "up" with it because I finally feel like I know enough about it and understand it enough to effectively use it in my classroom. I was daunted by the idea of using it with all of my classes, but finally came to the conclusion to just use it with my Pre-AP class for their History Day projects. The RPC will be such an asset to the History Day project for several different reasons. I am excited about my ideas to incorporate assignments about each step on the RPC. I was really helped out by last week's MILP meeting and the handouts given by the teacher who already has incorporated the RPC into his classroom. Thanks!

Thing 5

Thing 5. Create and Maintain a Teacher Web Page

On November 7, Leslie came to Humboldt to help us set up our Urban Planet teacher web pages. I really like that the teachers can have web pages. I have seen them be very effective in helping out the students, especially those who have a lot of absences. I am excited to become a teacher who has a very nice and useful website. I have a website now, but it does not have a lot of information on it. Leslie will be coming back to Humboldt again to give us time and help with making our website even better.

Even though I want to have a useful website, I know that it will take some time to get to that point. Right now there isn't a lot of time to work on it. I know that once I put some time into it it will be extremely easy to update and will save me time in the end. Some day!

The link isn't up on the Humboldt website yet. It will be soon, however.