February 21, 2010

Dr. Alice Christie

Dr. Christie's website is a website designed to help teachers succeed. I have explored this site a little and I have found Webinars, educational technology, and how to design your own web site. It even has a search engine designed just for teachers! I think that this website could be very useful!

This website, if used properly, can be very useful for teachers as it has links to other websites with educational tools, and lesson plans. The Webinars also seem very useful. Dr. Christie also has links to her classes that I assume, for a fee, you can sign up for.



iTunes U is a very useful tool. Imagine as a student you have missed class because you had to go to the other side of the country to a wedding your family would not let you out of to save your life. Now imagine knowing that everything you miss will be on the test that will happen when you get back and your teacher won't let you make it up. Before you start having a panic attack you remember your teacher downloads her lectures onto iTunes U so you can get the notes you need even though you missed a week's worth of classes!

As a teacher this tool will be useful because your class can be more engaged during class time and not have to worry about if they missed something important because the class lecture is online when they get home. This tool can also be useful as a teacher if you were sick and had to miss a day. Now you don't have to give your students busy work the substitute can just pull up iTunes U and play the lecture for the class and your class can take notes from it! How amazing is it that technology has come so far!