Survey Results

Friend or Foe

Wikipedia is a good site to gather information from. A student can broaden their horizon, and get other opinions from this search engine. As the article said, you should answer the question that we did in class to find out proper credentials of a subject. I enjoyed the class assignment, I learned how to find out if an article on the web it viable. My opinion about Wikipedia is that it is a good site to find information, but make sure the information establishes credit, or a "relavent hyperlink." Also the information must not be bogus, plus the information must be legitamate. In my future class room I would allow the students to use Wikipedia as a source. But, my main focus would be that the students would need at least 3 search engines that end in .gov. All my professors I have ever had let us use any site with .gov as a reference. I would also challenge the student to provide at least ONE book from the library.

Moral Imperative

Keeping a blog for this course definitly made turning in homework easier. I never have to sharpen my pencil. Not to mention loosing assignments on paper. This blogging helps me stay a little more organized. My only problem with blogging is keeping my modem running, which has been a pain in my back. I think using blogger would help me with teaching by keeping track of work. It would be very hard for a student to tell me that they lost their homework assignment if I place the activity on blogger. Yes, I will continue to use the gmail blogger, but I have to get more involved in computer literacy. It is difficult for me to use the computer sometimes. Teachers must develop 21 century skills if we want to keep our heads out of the water. First of all, I had no idea that I was developing media literacy skills by doing these assignments. I just figured I was out of place because everyone else has been doing this for a while. I just started. I still don't have a facebook or myspace. A new media literacy skill I have seen concrete evidence in is through our Edmodo assigments. This literacy skill would be collective intelligence. I read the unfinished story segments and I would help expand the thoughts of my Edmodo partner named Trinton. We wrote back and forth new ideas for his story about dragons, a knight, and princes. Our common goal was to create a photo story using the final draft he and I put together. The photo story came out really well. I hope that Trinton can practice this skill just as I used my for my project. As for me I need to keep practicing using all four of those media literacy skills. To improve the way I teach.

top ten

In my classroom I helped the students put together a power point project for a Geography lesson. The students' assigment was to create a power point on a counry of their choice in Western Europe. It is different becuase they were not making their own websites. They did have to post at least hyperlinks, use a variety of slides, and use the internet for questions to be answered from the rubric. I am not sure what type of learning style is my strongest. I am not suprised that this activity had no text books. With the vast accessible information through the internet, who needs a book?:( It is weird, if I would ask my father what something ment, he would say "Get a book." The whole idea has changed for me. My biggest concern is that published books are becoming a thing of the past. The only barrier I have using websites is that you never know when your computer is going tostart malfunctioning, like mine all semester.