Reflection+One

==Description: This past week, I launched my first interactive website, using Google Drive, to help guide students and to facilitate learning with more technology tools. As I created the website, I knew that it was going to go through many transformations. As with most work created via technology, the website is living and constantly changing. My main concern with the website was the way in which my lessons and homework were displayed for the students. Many of them were having difficulty interpreting the information. Then I discovered, Assign-A-Day, teacher created calendars to help manage assignments. I registered for a subscription and transferred the information on my site to the calendar.==

==Impact: Now I have a neatly organized, professional looking calendar as a presentation tool for my daily assignments. The students now have the ability to open a traditional calendar or view the assignments as a list, which I prefer. Parents will also easily be able to discern what their child will be working on in class and at home during each week. The tool is easy to use. The digital-age media allows me to communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers.==

==**Intention:** I will continue to use this tool. There are also many other tools on the site: 4teachers.org that I plan to investigate to see if there is anything else I can use to enhance my instruction and class management and to meet the NETS-T standards. I will also share this site with other teachers in my building as many of us have been looking for an effective tool for our homework calendars since our new grading software does not include a calendar component.==

[|View my calendar for the week of September 3, 2013 through September 6, 2013.] [|Assign-A-Day]