I was impressed by all that is available to both teachers and students for free on UEN.
The pioneer library will provide great tools for lesson plans with the images, videos and articles available. If I have media time in my classes or take trips to the media library, I will have them search SIRS for content for essays or culturegram for ideas for papers. I'm glad that it provides a safe and relevant atmosphere for kids and gets them really using the technology without just consuming it.
The lesson plans are a HUGE blessing because other teachers have a lot of good ideas and I will definitely be utilizing those by tailoring them to my students. What will be even more helpful are the rubrics for activities, because why spend forever trying to create a rubric if it's already made for you?
The Core curriculum will obviously help keep my lessons centered on the core so that I know what needs to be taught. Of course I will be referring to it often, especially in my first few years as a teacher in writing my lesson plans.
Finally, The Interactive activities are a brilliant way to provide game-based learning, especially with subjects that can easily be boring like spelling, grammar, and vocab. I would try and get media time during the week in my school so my students could utilize these.
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