What I learned on 1/28/10

Today I learned all the different ways an electronic gradebook can be used. You can communicate with the student and parents away from school from your home. You are able to grade papers and enter them into the computer, leaving your prep period at school free to come up with new lessons for the students in the coming weeks. In some electronic gradebooks, you are able to talk to the parents speaking their language! You can type a comment in english, and when you send it to them, it translates it to spanish. I thought that was really neat because there are sometimes language barriers between teachers and foreign parents. I also learned that you are able to print off progress reports of how the student is doing, and you can experiment with the grades to tell them what they will get if they do this project, if they pass this next big test, ect. All of these are really neat and helpful technologies that have made teaching a little bit easier to do. :)