Wolfe,+Valerie

Journal #1

My senior year in high school, which was in 05-06, I was enrolled in a class what was called Web Design. The whole class, which was only one semester was about how to create your own website. It was a pretty interesting class because even though I used the internet every day and visited all sorts of websites, I never really gave much thought on how they were designed. After a couple of weeks of learning about some basic HTML codes, my teacher gave us the rest of the semester to create our own website that had to have links to other websites that we were to create to go along with the main page. Since I am a Harry Potter fanatic, I decided to create a website that was about Hogwarts, which was the school Harry Potter attended. It was supposed to be the school's website, such as Towson and every other school in the world has a website.A text book that listed all sorts of HTML codes was used in order to help succeed in creating my own website.

I think every person should have some sort of knowledge on how websites are created and all the work that goes into making a successful website. People do not understand how difficult it is to create and manage a website such as their favorites like Facebook, MySpace, etc.

My social bookmarking website is: [|Vdubbz22].

Journal #2

From what I have read in the case study and also from talking with friends who are teachers, technology plays a huge role in child development and learning. My friend Brandy is a Special Education teacher and the main-stream children with Autism she works with love being on the computer playing games that they think is just for fun but it is actually teaching them different life skills and also conversational skills. Also, these children learn new words or phrases every day just by playing an instructional game on the computer. I will reach a higher more student centered level by understanding that every child I will have in my classroom will learn at their own pace and some may learn slower than others. By allowing a child to work with a program on the computer when teaching a certain subject that child will be able to learn at their own pace and not have to worry about having to keep up with the teacher.

I believe students learn best when a teacher takes into account that every child learns differently. If a teacher recognizes his or her students individual needs when it comes to learning something new, try to incorporate all their needs into one. For example, you may have some children who learn just by listening, some who learn by hands on activities, some who learn visually by books or props, etc. Try to incorporate all of that into your lesson plans.

Journal #3

A web 2.0 tool I could use would be Wiki. I think it is a great way to carry on class discussions and allow for feedback easily. I think it is neat that every person can have their own Wiki page within a Wiki group like we do in our ISTC class. It is cool that every person can do their homework or journal entry and post it to their page and others can go back and view what other's are thinking, or different group project people have done in class. It is an efficient way to communicate with people on a group project if you are not together in the same room, area, or state. The Wiki for the internet safety group project makes it easy to work together as a group and not have to be with eachother, face to face, to work on the group project.

I intend to use various Web 2.0 tools to allow students different opportunities and different choices to chose from in order to successfully complete projects or assignments based on what they are good at. Some students are good writes and could use a tool such as Wiki to write what they want and others can view it. Others can use Web 2.0 tools to create an animated story to complete an assignment or project. There are tons of different ways in which Web 2.0 will help children of all kinds succeed to their fullest potentional in school.

I see technology being the center of education in 5 to 10 years. When a child can't come to school because they are sick. They can keep current with the class by a Web 2.0 tool to get assignments done on time at home. I think technology will be different because the way things are going, that will be the basis of education and how children will learn.

Journal #4 Two facts that I knew about fair use and copy right is that no matter what, if you are using a source for a presentation, paper, etc., you should always give credit to that source by way of bibliographies. Also, I knew that slogans cannot be copyrighted.

Two facts that I did not know are having to get permission if you are printing a poem that is over 250 words or over 2 pages long. I remember my high school literature teacher constantly handing out long poems and essays for us to disect and see if we can get the underlying message. Another thing I did not know was that you cannot copy more than 9 times in one semester as a professor. My anthropology professor did a lot of copying and handing out!!!