Module 3: Key Assessment
Engage in Professional Growth: Classroom Website
Directions: Key Assessment for ELED 3300
Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Key Assessment for ELED 3300
Module Objective: To enable students to gain practical experience in creating an Elementary Classroom Website. The students will be able to:
design an attractive elementary classroom website using Google Sites
select a particular grade level focus for the website
create 9 pages with specified information: Home, About Me, Parent, Curriculum, Video, Map Embedded Calendar, Embedded Form, Links to Social Media and Citations
InTASC Instructional Practice 8(o): The teacher understands how content and skill development can be supported by media and technology and knows how to valuate these resources for quality, accuracy, and effectiveness.
Creating an Elementary Classroom Website
The expectation of a classroom website has up until recently tended to manifest itself as a splash page made up of contact information and homework for the day, however today, the classroom website is moving beyond this simple and basic form in order to realize its potential as a powerful tool for learning.
1. Create a elementary classroom website using
3. Rubric
4. Place the URL address of your website in Module 3: Growth and Leadership- in the D2L comment box of the dropbox
5. Submit the assignment on time
*You will be asked to upload this assignment into LiveText
Assistance for Assignment:
1.Create a classroom site tutorial
Applications for the classroom:
Holcomb (2012) describes five important advantages of classroom websites
provides a location to publish student work, instilling immeasurable student pride as their learning is shared with others
facilitates the organization of a bank of resources enabling students to easily access resources related to curriculum units and topics of study
promotes the sharing and exchanging of ideas among teachers and students (educators' resources are available to be shared with other teachers to advance professional learning opportunities as well)
forges a link between home and school
projects professionalism to the public, sending a message that teachers are preparing students in ways that integrate ICT’s and classroom learning (Information and Communications Technologies -ICT)
Free Classroom Websites
Here are some free websites that you might want to use in the future.
Weebly