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Blog Journal #7

 Roberts Elementary School

I looked at third-grade teachers' pages/ favorites lists and found that most posted information describes their favorite things, such as foods, activities, subjects, etc. Most also include some cool graphics or designs. While they don't go into great detail about how their classes are structured, you can still get a good feel for the teacher as a person based on the information provided. Something I liked included on some of the pages was a link to the teacher's classroom wish list. This is an excellent way for teachers to keep parents updated on how they can help. 

I enjoyed using the Canvas group tool. It made it easy for all gruop members to work on the assignment without locating or sharing a link. I also liked that it included time stamps of the last time a specific page was worked on. This made it easy to know who was working on what and when. This feature would be better if it sent notifications when a member of the gruop edited something. That way, we don't have to text each other to check in as much, even though that wasn't that bad. It helped us hold one another accountable. One thing I didn't like about Canvas groups was that the editing feature didn't allow us to copy and paste our completed evaluation charts onto the page. This meant we had to remake the cart and copy and paste the information for each section, which was annoying. 

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