Interactive Website

Why Technology?

In class 2-311 we have made our classroom website apart of our daily routines. The students are working on using the website to access different lessons and activities. The original purpose of this project was to make the website apart of the classroom environment. All activities within the website are aligned with second grade common core standards and are aligned with the units of study. The greater idea of using an interactive classroom website is for the students to understand and learn about the world wide web. The website provides an opportunity for increased parent/family engagement in their child's daily classroom learning. The students learned that they can access the website and lessons anywhere on a piece of technology at anytime. From this process, we learned that the students were able to access the website independently and engage in the activities through multiple sources of activity. At the beginning of the process, we directed the students to the website and used prompting and modeling to help them be successful. We then faded this, and the students were accessing the website indepdently in the classroom. Students are now able to independently use the website in the classroom and at home.

Click here to see how my interactive website turned into shared reading project using Nearpod

The Process

1. Creating the website to be interactive, engaging and aligned with common core/ units of study

2. Introduction of class website to whole class

3. Modeling many times how to access class website and activities

3A. I decided not to start this process with every subject in the classroom. But to focus on reading workshop so that see if the impact of the classroom website.

4. With prompting guide students to use the website independently to focus in on shared reading with NearPod and other tools

5. Have students use the website in the classroom during reading workshop to work on shared reading activities

6. Create the content that directs them back to the next activity in the classroom

6A. Take baseline data to create appropriate groups

Assessments

• Data analysis from the Nearpod and other activities it will guide my teaching points for the next cycle of readings