BLOGGING 208

As we near the end of the semester, we realized that we didn’t have the opportunity to get to all the information necessary to complete the class syllabus.  As a teacher, I have also come to the realization that this might also happen in one of my classes that I teach.  While I didn’t learn everything that I wanted about designing a website last night, 5/1, I did learn a more important fact.  Sometimes the student needs to take it upon themselves to teach them a topic to further their knowledge.  I don’t mean give the student a topic and tell them to go learn it, but rather give them a rough draft of the topic and then let the student go explore many different outlooks of that particular topic.  Instead of website design, you could be teaching about rocks.  After you give the students a brief synapses of  what you are looking for , give them an extended homework assignment to make a brief PowerPoint of what kinds of rocks there are, where they are found and how long they have been there, for example.  It’s not always the best thing to do, but it is probably better than doing a sub par job on the next 4 topics.  Picking and choosing, thou it may be difficult, is often a necessary strategy that teachers have to use to get through their content at any point during the school year, especially new teachers like us.  I can’t wait to have some “FREE TIME” to actually sit down and dabble with website design.  I would love to design one for my wife’s Chiropractic office. I think that I got enough information to atleast get me through the beginning stages of a website.