Internet Safety

1. What article did you choose to read for your fourth article?
"Fighting Internet Filth"
Mario Hipol, Ensign, Aug. 2005, 54–57

You don't have to be a computer expert to help protect your family when they're on the Web.


2. What were the most important things you learned from the readings? I learned that there are ways to fix things...and that it seems like the most important thing is communication. I also learned that many youths understand their own safety.

3. How will what you have read influence your actions as a parent and/or teacher of children and youth? It will make me more communicative...and a little more trusting of older students.

4. How can you use what you have learned from the reading to have a positive influence on family and friends? You can be aware and noticing when things are wrong.

1. Find out what the youth or parent knows about one of the internet safety topics you have learned about. Many youths I know understand that they, having grown up in this cyber-world, know what the dangers are.

2. Share with the youth or parents what you have learned about the topic and share at least one resource you found with him/her on the topic. Check.
3. In your PLE, describe:

* who you talked with (no names are needed - just a brief description of age)
My little sister (Age 17)
* what you shared and how it went (was it positive? negative? hard? easy? valuable or not?) Since i am close to my sister, and we generally have the same sensabilities, it was not at all difficult to communicate this to her. She didn't make a facebok page until senior year, and is aware of keeping it professional and classy. She is aware that the internet is being widely used in schools, and that this is a great opportunity to learn about things at a faster pace.

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What I did.

So, for my technology enhanced lesson I used an elmo and a powerpoint presentation to teach a lesson on "removing clutter from your writing" to my third grade class.

I used the powerpoint to first, model the process of going through a paragraph and getting rid of the clutter.
I projected the text on the whiteboard, and as I ran into text that was not essential, I crossed it out, right on the whiteboard.
Then I showed what the completed paragraph would look like on the next slide.

The class and I then went through the process together, going sentence by sentence and deciding what to keep and what to get rid of.
I then had the students rewrite the new paragraph on their own sheets of paper.

Finally I had students write paragraphs of their own, have a friend edit them, and rewrite the new paragraphs.

I showed them examples on the elmo, pointing out the important elements of the assignement.

It is all relative

Luke: I can't believe it.
Yoda: THAT is why you fail.
-Star Wars episode 5



There is sooo much in my brain, and so many blogs to write on....and not enough time.

In the immortal words of my little sister- "I am busier than a one-legged [Megan] in a butt-kicking contest.

and I am loathe to say "butt"...ever. Free-speech enthusiast that I am...I frown at vulgar language...vulgar as in common...the original word for vulgar.

Anyway, so I don't have time to put my more interesting thoughts on paper...or anything else for that matter.
I find that business isn't really a matter of how much stuff one has to do, but a matter of how much stuff your brain (not even your exhausted body, but your BRAIN) can handle. I have done twice as much as this, with half as much sleep, and felt fine. I have also done half as much as this, with daily breakdowns and eight-hour naps.
So, really, it's all a war of the brain. That's the hardest war because you are fighting against yourself...and let's face it...when you fight yourself you have quite literally met your match.

Plan for Tech Lesson

I plan to use the smartboard to teach a lesson on removing clutter from writing, by having student's remove unnecessary sentences from a written paragraph, by being able to cross them out and erase them.

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What I learned from the Inventory.

While doing the technology inventory I discovered a few things. First, I discovered that my classroom has and uses a LOT of technology, but it's not always the most prominent technology in the room. The teacher and students use the microphone system all of the time, and the C.D. player is used at least once a day. The elmo and the overhead projector are also used often. The most prominent piece of technology in the classroom, however, is the smartboard, which is conspicuously positioned at the very front and center of the room-I've seen the smart-board used in three lessons in the entire three weeks...on of those times was by a practicum student.

I've seen now, that maybe, just maybe, it's not so much about how much, but how you use it. I find that I can usually do the same thing with a projector screen adn a white board, that I've seen the teacher do with the smart board. However, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to use a smartboard to say, scour celestia, google earth tours, and other online resources if I can.

Fabulous.

River Civilizations of the Ancient World!

Behold....the link of wonder!