A Great Class Comes to an End

I can't believe it's the last week of our Internet Learning Resources class! Where has the time gone? I have learned SO MUCH in this four weeks, all of which I can use right away when school starts next week. This week wasn't as much about fun, as we covered a lot about internet safety and copyright laws. It really helped me clear up a lot of questions I had about copyright. I feel a lot more confident about what's safe to use and what's not when I do projects with my students this year. The internet safety information was SHOCKING to me! I've always been careful with kids and the internet, but I now feel like I need to be more careful myself, too. What a lot of knowledge I've gained!

Week 2 of Internet Learning Resources

This has been a very interesting week. I'm really enjoying the class, and all of the things I can take back to school and use right away! Noodle Tools is one of my new favorites. I could spend hours on that site! At first I wasn't sure if I'd really use Google Alerts or not, but I think I could definitely use it with my students when doing current events, or historical events. I was really happy with the Site Evaluation Tool assignment, after finishing it this week. I am so glad to finally have a tool to use with my students when teaching them about being careful with internet sites. Overall, it's been a pretty great week!

First Week of Internet Learning Resources

So far, I've really enjoyed the first week of this new class. I always love taking a class that will have things I can walk into my classroom and use tomorrow, and I feel this will be one of those classes. I found a lot of good websites that have very user-friendly lists of resources I can use with my third graders. I'm also enjoying creating an Internet Web Resource Site Evaluation Form for my students. We found and used a Software Evaluation Form in the CEdO 515 class we took a few weeks ago. However, I feel the Site Evaluation form for my kids will be even more useful. For my third graders, being as young as they are, they tend to believe everything they read on the internet. I will definitely use the Site Evaluation on a weekly basis in my class to help my students decipher between useful, credible sites, and sites they should not use.