LIS 568 Week 11

I must admit, the thought of designing a website for a school that hires me is kind of intimidating.  I do not consider myself to be an artistic person.  So after Googling "how to create a school website" I came across a link for the best school and teacher website builders.  Out of the 3 mentioned, Wix.com was the highest rated.  Wix provides 100s of templates to choose from for other non artistic people like me.  This will help make your website cool to the students in your school who don't necessarily view you as cool.  Wix also allows you to have a blog which might aid in generating traffic to your website.  After all, where is the fun in navigating a website if students don't have an opportunity to voice their opinions???? :-)

I recommend visiting Wix when the time comes to create a school website.  You do have to sign in and create an account of course before you get started.

Here's the link to the article:

https://superbwebsitebuilders.com/schools-and-teachers/

LIS 568 Week 10

The thought of having emerging technologies in the classroom does not excite me the way it might others.  I guess it has something to do with the type of person I am and what I've seen over the past 2 years of being a substitute teacher in 2 suburban public school districts of Buffalo, NY.  While I enjoy both of these school districts, I am aware that the school districts struggle to come up with funds to help pay for technology advancements.  I have seen how they pack in 28 kids into 1 classroom for their "computer special" once a week.  I've also seen how one class was unable to use chromebooks because another class were using the chromebooks that are shared throughout the grade level.  These are real issues to think about when trying to come up with ways VR can help further education in the library.  How can a district that has had to cut teacher jobs over the past few years justify spending money on VR equipment in their school?  Well here is a way to help start the fund raising and have it professionally done:

  https://www.givergy.com/us/fundraise/fundraising-events/?gclid=CjwKCAjwwJrbBRAoEiwAGA1B_bQigJ3k6INILQGRgZMlRO2jqva1ZUGo6gEe6NKL6H82sMNfQ_y9HBoC0w8QAvD_BwE