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I found a website actually created by a past teacher of mine and found lots of cool elements to it. First of I love that she calls her classroom “The Happy Room” creating an inviting positive space for her students. She has separate pages for each levels of classes she teaches including, AP Macroeconomics/Government, Honors/Gifted American History, and Honors/Gifted Economics/Government. Under these pages she includes sections explaining what they did the past week in class, homework assignments, important due dates, important links for homework, and any upcoming events. She also includes separate pages for Scholarship/College Information, an About Me, and Contact Me. I believe these are great additional pages with information that may not be specific to the class or its content but can still be helpful to a student.
  


https://mrslowd.educatorpages.com/
I relate this blogging experience to past class assignments called discussion boards. In these discussion boards we were assigned a prompt, or maybe told to read something and create a personal response to it. I feel these were very similar, but our blog posts are much more public, and I feel more personal. I personally really enjoy the thought of writing a blog and posting it for the world to see and have even thought about building my own personal bog on lifestyle, food, etc.
Working on our last assignment definitely gave me more practice with the CRAP principles and working to make a good user-friendly website. I really like the idea of using a website as a way to communicate with students. I have seen my past teachers do things similar and have loved my experience with that so I think I will definitely implement this concept into my future as a teacher.  

https://atorres0224.weebly.com/

Also check out my comments on Bailey and Courtney’s  blog  posts.


Comments

  1. Katelyn's CornerJuly 7, 2019 at 3:56 PM

    Hi again, Amanda! Your teacher's classroom page is so cute! I thought it was a nice coincidence. that we both chose 'About' pages from Advanced Placement Government teachers. I love how detailed is, and I hope that in the future my teacher page remains as up-to-date as this one. My experience with discussion boards is limited to only one class before, but I like the accessibility of these blogs too. Like you said, it is public and personal. Have a good week. :)
    -Katelyn

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  2. Lucy CerpaJuly 8, 2019 at 8:52 PM

    Hey Amanda! I think that's so cool that a past teacher of yours was helpful or this assignment! I didn't even think of looking up my old teachers!! I also didn't even think about the connection between our blogs and discussion boards- they really are quite similar!! Nice job!!!

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