Blog Post #6

1) I think that I would try to maintain a website as a teacher. I think it would be a helpful thing for parents to be able to keep up with what is going on in class. I think the hardest part would be remembering to updating it.
2) I plan on using technology such as online calculators and math games to help my students learn from home. I also plan on using online calendars such as Google's to keep myself organized.
3) I liked the Web Evaluation Wiki because it helped me hone my skills about how to create an evaluation for websites that I may have to assign to my future students. Next time I can improve my assignment by making it more creative.

Blog Post #5

1) After listening to the podcast I decided to research Diigo and found it very interesting. I ended up downloading it and I have already found it very useful. I like the highlighting tool it has and the screenshot tool. I have used these a couple times already. As you can see I have also incorporated into this blog by highlighting this first paragraph.
    I will be incorporating this in my classroom whenever possible. It is a very useful tool to use when I need to highlight an article to use in class, or to add a sticky note to this page. I think that by incorporating this in my classroom, I will be encouraging technology use like this in the students' homes as well.

2) I think that the Wikis and Twitter are very useful Web 2.0 tools for the K-12 classrooms. According to the podcasts, Wikis are very useful for researching and adding your own information to a specific wiki page. The podcast also mentions that by incorporating Twitter in the classroom, it will be a very useful way for the students to follow researchers and educators and tweet to them in hopes of getting a response. This interactive tool will be very useful in the K-12 classrooms.

3) The skills I acquired from the Web Hunt are very useful. I learned in order to find desired information quickly and efficiently, use just the key words in the search bar. I liked the pressure to find the desired information as quickly and efficiently as possible. The limited time made us work faster. I didn't not like anything in particular about the assignment. Next time, I will work faster to try to gain my information quicker. I think this information could be used in my future career because it allows me to find desired information as quickly as possible.

Blog Post #4

   In some schools, it is not only the students who are using the web-based resources to support student learning, but also the staff are getting involved. They are researching the books that students are interested in so that they develop a love of reading. Though it is not always dependable, I like to use Wikipedia because its information is usually correct.

   I think using the Internet is a very useful tool in today's education. With the world's information at their fingertips, it would be smart to have the students access and use it in their everyday school time. It is not useful when you take into account that the quality of information is highly variable. It is useful though, because the most useful information can be copied directly from the internet into a word processor.
   In my WEPO class we researched various Internet-based resources for use in school work. I researched Wikipedia and found that it is a very dependable site and its information is reliable.
   The skills I acquired from Inspiration was how to find reliable sources and use them to aid in my teaching. I liked that it taught me how to incorporate information from outside sources into my lesson plan. This is the kind of information I will use in my future career as a teacher.

Blog Post #3

I decided to critique Facebook because I was already on it because I'm very good at procrastinating.When going through the rules from chapter 6 I see that Facebook has set their website up perfectly. Everything from text alignment, to using upper and lowercase, to keeping a simple color scheme. They are set up perfectly.

I think open source and open content materials are important because without them, it would be too difficult to gain knowledge and relay that knowledge to students without breaking the copyright laws. I would use open content and open source materials because it would make things less difficult for me as a teacher. For instance, I researched the term "open source" for my WEPO class last year using Wikipedia, which is an open source software.

I acquired many new skills working on Word and Graphics 2. Such as how to use the address book tool in the mailing section of word. Without this tool, life would be so much harder. I really like how when you enter the information into the address book, it transfers the info to each individual letter automatically. I don't really think I can improve it any further because it is good as is. I can really use this information whenever I need to send out letters to this parents of all my students.

Blog Post #2

As a student, I have mainly used Microsoft Word to write papers, or make resumes, or newsletters. I have seen my teachers use MS in basically the same ways. They use it to make newsletters for parents, or charts with diagrams and such. It is a very useful tool.I like the idea of the actual newspaper model presented in chapter nine. I think it could prepare students to write in an investigative way. 

I took Writing, Editing, in Print, and Online last year and about 1/4 of our class was on copyright and fair use. I have learned the basic rules and how and why it was set up. I would teach students the rules to copyright and what is acceptable and not acceptable. I would show them the way to properly give credit to the places they received the information from.

The skills I acquired from Word and Graphics 1 was the basic how-to of preparing a quiz with the tools provided by MS. I like how it made us think about things we would actually quiz our students on. I would probably improve it next time by adding more graphics, or making it more appealing to the eye. Students get tired at looking at a boring white piece of paper;