Jing

Jing is a website dedicated to webhosting, email, webspace, and other web friendly aspects. It is described as being "simple, flexible, and a user friendly product to both entry level and profession level." It has many features to take advantage of such as email, photo gallery, blog, costumer support, etc. It allows you to access your email from virtually anywhere. Also, there is chat support so if you have any questions that need to be answered quickly, you could ask on this site. It is very easy to navigate around and even has an icon that can show what is going on in the news at that time. It is secure and I really think that if I can figure out my way around it, many can understand and figure it out. It was voted the best budget choice in 2008 and seems to be pretty prestigious in many areas of being a successful website.

I could integreate this website into my class room a number of ways. I think the most useful would be to post my students work to the photo gallery and allow them to blog about theirs and eachothers work. Of course I expect it to be kept respectful but I still appreciate honestly. I will also post my own so that I can recieve feedback. I feel as though feedback is just as important from student to teacher as is from teacher to student. With students being so involved in today's technology, I think many will enjoy this idea because they can use it from home or even their lab time during school. The fact that this site is secure is incredbly important being a teacher and allowing my students to use this website because I want them to remain safe on the internet. Maybe I could post my students work every two weeks to the photo gallery and have them comment on at least 3 other student's work and also on their own. I would give them a time frame of a week so they could do it when they feel good and ready whether it be in the morning before school or at night before they go to bed. The website is very simple to understand and gives back up support. This can only help anyone using the site.

I actually look forward to executing this idea in my classroom. I think this site is so clear and concise that I might just have to use jing.com.