Blog post #7

The web based tool that I am most familiar with to use in my classroom would be this blogger site.  I think this web tool is very helpful in keeping the students writing and sharing with their classmates.  It lets the students be creative and free and gives the teacher the ability easy access to the students work.  I have rally enjoyed learning the different tasks that can be done on blogger.  Similar to this class, I would have my students post pictures and outlines of their projects or presentation assignments.  This way I can comment on them as well as other classmates.  It is also a great tool to have for teachers to post assignments or helpful hints and students can see them right away without having to wait to be in class.  Altogether, it is a very beneficial web tool that I will be sure to incorporate into my future teaching career.

Excel spreadsheets are a great way of keeping information organized and clear.  I will most likely use Excel the most with having my class roster and attendance as well as my grade book.  Excel has tools that allow you to equate numbers and add up percentages, therefor using it to enter grades is very efficient.  I believe that Excel is more used by just teachers on an elementary level and then taught and learned by students at more of 8th grade high school level.  In college, I took a course on Excel and I even found it to be challenging at times. 

 It is a good tool to use in like an economics classroom for like a project on the economy and budgeting.  You could have the students make a personal budget with their everyday needs and income. Or you could have your class make a pretend business and make a budget for their business. This would help them to learn basic life lessons, as well as how to compute on an Excel sheet.