Matt Miller website review
Matt Miller is a famous educator who not only spent over a decade in the classroom, but also wrote a well known book called "Ditch That Textbook." This book was based on new, innovative teaching ideas that revolve around "ditching" the old, boring textbook and instead doing something more engaging that is more fun to your students and ultimately better for their learning. This book, filled with unique, ground breaking ideas, is what really set Matt apart in the world of education. From this, Matt was named a Google-certified innovator and was named a a Top-10 influencer in the world of education. Matt is a very smart, unique, and well organized teacher, and his website ditchthattextbook.com shows just that.
After scrolling through and digging deep into Matt Miller's website, I really get the idea of how a professional educator is supposed to look on social media. Creating a webpage is a great way to communicate with people. In Matt's case, it is no longer really used to communicate with his students, but more so a way to communicate with other educators and his fan base. Although my use will be using a website to communicate with my students and their parents, the same principles apply. Matt fills his webpage with useful articles, links to other webpages, and most importantly his thoughts and ideas. He has a tremendous, well organized layout that tells you everything you need to know about Matt. He has an "about me" page that tells you about his personal life and professional accomplishments. His webpage also has tabs that reflect on his book itself, "Ditch That Textbook" and also tabs about various resources that he deems important to his viewers. These meaningful tabs makes it apparent to me as a future educator that it is important to have a website that is clean, organized and easy to understand, with multiple tabs that will ultimately inform my students and their parents. Another important thing I learned about this website is that as a future educator, it is important to show your students that you too are human and have a life! Far too often we look at teachers as robots who only care about school and homework. By giving a great "about me" page, it shows that you too are just like your students and love to have fun also.