Mr. Rabie Teaching - The Website

Over the course of my time at Brock and through my first practicum, I have been building a Google Site where my colleagues and students can access a variety of information.  My website, Mr. Rabie Teaching, is accessible to anyone.  The site is broken into several sections and includes a calendar of upcoming events, a forum for discussion and questions, a link to this blog, a daily posts section where students can see what they missed if they were away or just clarify something from that day, and of course links to the current courses I am involved with.  Over the course of my first practicum I taught Ancient Civilizations and Canadian History.  Students from these courses can download all relevant handouts, they can link to videos used in class and they can see pictures from my travels to many of the places we discussed.  The site is easy to navigate as it is broken into specific sections for each course and topic and materials are easily downloadable.

The obvious purpose of having a site like this is to have a connection to my students outside of the classroom.  A student who cannot make it to school or who has lost something, can easily access another copy from the site.  They can see what they missed and find out what is coming up so they can prepare.  I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to put up a forum that works but I finally did it and I hope my students will take advantage of this to ask me questions and make NICE comments.  The other great thing is that it all totally public and therefore safe for everyone to use.

Prezi on the website