Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Evalutech

I was amazed at how much information this website contained. I think that is an important asset to teachers because we don't always have resources for our lessons. I really liked the links to all the technological sights and how some of them reference legal guidelines that people must follow when obtaining this software. I think its a great resources for teachers, but school districts a like.

As someone who is studying to become a teacher, I think this is a site that I should keep in mind. It has on-line lesson plans, learning sites for students for disabilities, providers of instructional resources as well as criteria for evaluating different texts as well as technological equipment. For new teachers, this is something that is very helpful because they don't always know what do to or where to go for things.

I really liked the link that explained why 21st century skills are so important. In my Education 350 class we talked about cell phones and text messaging during class. Someone brought up the fact that we should be teaching our kids "technology skills and etiquette." We have so much technology on our hands these days that it is important to learn why we need it and how we should use it. I think that this link would be great for that exact reason.

It is good to know that there is a resource like this out there for teachers. We can always know that this site will have up-to-date information that is beneficial to teachers and their classrooms.

2 comments:

Carrie and Kristen said...

I agree, I really liked this site too. I love the fact that the site has lesson plans and information about students with disabilities!

tharo said...

Hi Gina!
I also liked the fact that there is a website like this for teachers. The lesson plan section was great and I also liked the link that went to a site about software for children. It's nice to know that there is a website that helps teachers evaluate things before we introduce them to our own students.