EVALUATION OF MAJOR PROJECT

The intent of my major project was to provide second and third grade teachers with easily accessible, usable ideas that would help them with the teaching of reading.  My beginning plan was to specifically find lessons that integrated technology into the reading curriculum.

 After much searching, I decided that even though teachers might want specific plans, they also need a wide range of choices.  Possibly it was the age level or the fact that I didn’t look in all the right places, but I had some difficulty finding a wide range of actual ideas for integration of technology as related to reading.  What I did find an abundance of was valuable resources.  The problem, once again for classroom teachers is time.  When do they have the spare time to sit down in front of the computer and search for actual, usable ideas from this wide array of web sites?

My web site has three main links:  a page with favorite authors and their web sites, a page with web sites of interest for teachers of reading, and a page with photos of book covers.  The authors’ pages provide biographical information about the author, tell about their books, provide contests for students to enter, and have various other aspects of interest to teachers and students.  The interests for teachers page provides a variety of Internet sites that offer good resources and ideas for use.  The page of book covers just provides that good look at what an illustrator can do to “draw” a person into the book.   

My evaluation will be forthcoming from a group of four classroom teachers that I have asked to peruse my site  (two second grade and two third grade teachers). The evaluation form that I am asking them to fill out is attached to this web site.  I have asked that they be open and honest with ideas for improvements and things that are on the site that are really usable and beneficial to both them and their students.