Chapter 6 Educational Help and Tips for Students

    In chapter 6, we learned that there are many ways of learning with educational websites and apps. I read that there is many technological help that are available to us. We don't have to write the website down anymore and keep forgetting what website we used there are many helps like Delicious and Diigo that makes it easier for us.  Delicious is a good website organizer for students as well as teachers to use. On Delicious we can save and bookmark any website that we may use for school , work and entertainment. Its a nice website cause you can organize all the websites and come back later to it. You care able to see who else used the website. You can refer to this webpage to see all the sites you saved rather than leaving many tabs open. You can code it website so you can remember what it was about. Diigo allows a person to bookmark, highlight portions of the webpages, add sticky notes,tag the site, and its made easy for you to share the resources.  It was a good chapter to read I learn to do new things that I hadn't been able to do before. I will be able to use educational resources that are online to teach my students and am able to make a lesson plan online. 

Focus Question: What role do you envision for social bookmarking tools like Delicious and Diigo in your information management as a teacher?

  The role that I envision as a teacher is being able to use this sites to help me save the resources that I've used to teach my students. I will use it as a guide to help me save webpages that can be resourceful to me as an educator and to my students. I can go to these sites to show my students what I found rather than trying to find the site that had glanced at. To bookmark you don't need a USB or anything else. All you need is a computer and everything is available in one website. I can use Delicious and Diigo to help me become a better teacher by saving the work that I've done, use and enabled to make me a better educator. I will be able to show this to my future students to help them research on there work. 

Resources:

Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2010). Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn & Bacon. 

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Chapter 5: Using Technology Together and Safely

 We should use our technology devices and networks safely. The rules that are setup for as students and individuals are important to us. Us as students we should know how to use our resources on the internet wisely. People all around post or blog resourceful information for us. No matter if its how to learn to divide, add , find x or even how to effectively write a paper. We use social networks to connect with others that we may not be able to see everyday. Just as we follow the laws in reality, we should do the same on the internet. Today we face a new way of bullying. Cyber bullying happens in the internet. People can most harmful things about others. We as a community of technology users can help prevent that. Working together on the internet can setup an example for our future users. We can cite, and follow all the guidelines for the internet. We should thank people for taking the time to post valuable information for everyone.  The rules that are posted are for copy right reasons. People should receive credit for the work that they've done.  By us using the internet by example others will follow us by doing the same.We can use rubrics to help us make sure the information we are using is accurate. People can put on the internet things that are not correct.  We all can post reviews to help one another avoid these kinds of websites. Following the rules can help keep spams and virus away. Reducing the number of spams and virus that we get can help make sure the computer is running the way it should. People can make a difference by using the internet safely and correctly. Its changed our lives for positive reasons, so why not keep it that way?




Resources:
 
Textbook - Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2011). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN:10 0-13-159611-X, ISBN:13 978-0-13-159611-5

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