Hi lin!
Welcome to FriHost!
Wow...a teacher :-p...*backs away slowly* haha j/k. That's a great idea you have for your students. I know a lot of former teachers that use another site (based on routine templates - very boring and so many restrictions compared to FriHost) for all of their students to access. I enjoyed the concept. It is a great tool (teacher-student site) that's easily integrated into the classroom setting. I think it can promote a higher number of students doing homework. That is, if the content is interesting :-p.
One of my teachers who taught Social Sciences used the internet as...his near only way of communicating to us. During school hours, we would sit in class through lecture and take notes. We would have assignments every night that always seemed to revolve around SOMETHING online. "Go to this news site and get this article. Compare notes from this article with an article you read at this other news site."
I remember something called, "The Stock Market Game." That was VERY fun and interesting. It made the entire experience very interactive and engaged all of us - without a doubt.
In retrospect, I think that was one of my favorite classes. It wasn't the traditional teacher-centered...boring non-sense. There was always something to do, somewhere to do it, and someone to do it with. I'd highly encourage you to pump this really hard to your students...they'd love it.
Are you elementary, secondary, or post-secondary? PM me with the answer, and possibly the subject you teach? If you can.
At any rate, hope to see you around!
Adios and have fun!
Hi linaghirxi
thats good that your doing that i wish my teachers would do something like that >_< you seem like a really good teacher
