Blog 5

Q: How will you collaborate with students, peers, and community members using technology resources to support student success? 

A: It is vital for students to have support in order to be successful in the classroom.  Parental figures, peers, and community members hold a large role in these successes. It is a wonderful idea to use technology to get them involved, interested, and up to date with classroom activities in order to offer support to the students.  There are many ways a teacher can use technology to reach out into the community for support.  It would be awesome to have a classroom blog, or let older students have an individual blog about things they are learning in the classroom.  This way parental figures, peers, and community members could read and comment on the blogs to show their interest and support.  They would be able to talk to the students about what they are learning at school as well.  The children would be greatly encouraged by someone taking interest.  

Utilizing a Voki and a Symbaloo would also be great uses of technology to collaborate with students, peers, and community members.  A Voki is an effective way to make class announcements such as class projects and homework, school assemblies, and workshops.  Creating a Symbaloo for a class would allow links to specific subject related websites that could be quickly accessed at home or elsewhere.  This would let family view and collaborate with the student on their schoolwork outside of school.