Class Website

Here is a link to the imaginary-class website I created.

Miss Taylor's Science Site!

Just a note:
For the personalization requirement I included an embed gadget for GoodReads in order to post book recommendations for my students. I chose the size box I did so that it would look good before the links are clicked on. After, it no longer fits in the box, but they can access it in another window if they so desire.

Now to answer the questions in the assignment rubric: "How do you think you will use your website in your own teaching? What aspects of the website will be most useful for you, your students, and their parents?"

I feel that I will use my website to keep homework information on, so that students and their parents can have a place to look when school planners get lost. Also, it is useful to be able to give homework with active links for students to click on instead of hard copies with URLs to type in. Recently I also talked to a middle school teacher who said that her website was really useful for students to find out what they missed when they were absent. For these reasons, I feel the most useful aspects will be the announcements about homework. Lastly, I want my website to be a starting place for students to get excited about science through outside resources, like books and websites.

The toad bug and me

As a word of introduction to this new blog of mine, created for my technology class, this is ME. Or more accurate backwards: EM(ily). If you can't already tell, I have a cheesy sense of humor inherited from my father. He's a big tease, and so am I. I also have the compulsive desires to rhyme and alliterate. Poetry is a love of mine and is one of my favorite ways to express myself.
My first blog was inspired by my desire to share my creative expressions of emotion and can be found here: http://perserendplexipity.blogspot.com/

As for my education and career aspirations, I am a post-baccalaureate biology teaching student. I graduated with a Biology degree in April, because I have always loved science. I once wrote an essay in 3rd grade about how my favorite TV show was Bill Nye the Science Guy (...BILL...bill...bill...). Some of my favorite areas within biology include the human immune system and autoimmune disorders, plants (I once considered being a landscape architect), and insects. It is that last interest that inspired the name of my blog, because the little toad bug, family Gelasticoridae, is my favorite thus far.