Web Tools

There are so many web sites and downloadable software that are available for teachers and students to use. This week we worked with some different Web Tools. We found websites where we could download free worksheets for the classroom. There was a website, Eclispecrossword.com, where we could basically make our own crossword.

On rubistar.4teachers.org we made our own Rubric. I was so pleased with this website. Instead of making tables in Word or Excel, all you have to do is click a topic, then from a drop down menu select what the students will be graded on and the website fill in rest. It was so convenient, all we had to do was print from there. However, by far what I am most impressed with is Quizlet.com. In Quizlet we signed up for our own account and then made a test on whatever subject we wanted. I chose Spanish   to English definitions. This website, though, would be so valuable and time saving for when I become a teacher. Which is the point, I think, of this lesson: as teachers, we're going to be so busy all the time. We won't have time to make everything from scratch. We will have to adapt and borrow from what has already been made. I can search for already created sets by other users, and then use those in my classroom. The same thing applies to worksheets from ABCteach.com. It’s like what my mom has always told me, “Work smarter, not harder!”