#6 - Wiki

     The school website I looked at was the school I attended when I was in high school. I never looked at the website then and decided to see how well it made and updated. The site is for all high school students so the grade level is 9th-12th grade. The information that is displayed publicly is mostly dealing with student extra circular activities such as clubs and sports. But the website does keep open testing information for everyone to view, advising offices, college help, senior graduation information, and even separate tabs of information for faculty and parents.

In my future career of teaching, I envision myself being heavily immersed in technology and applying that knowledge of technology to my classroom. Lesson plans are more precise and present the lesson plans more clearly and organized when created on a word processor, like the podcast states. Technology is only beneficial towards a classroom and helps advance the classroom for both the teacher, students, and even the parents/guardians of the students whether its planning lessons, grade student work, and communicating with students and parents. 

After completing the Wiki assignment, I learned specific skills on how to really judge a website. I never looked into judging a website nor did I think evaluating a website was worth much. But after the assignment I realized how critical it is to evaluate the website for yourself. Learning how to evaluate websites is a necessary skill I need to learn for my future career, I can't just use sources for my students that I have not checked or looked into yet as it can be a very dangerous game. 

#4 - Web Hunt Challenges and What I learned overall

     A CPALMS standard that is very important to the American History subject that I would teach is the standard SS.912.A.2.1, which is review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. For this subject matter I would like to use an educational game, which is Hangman, but takes vocabulary and important terms that has to do with the subject, and makes a hangman game out of it. I would use it with my whole class and separate my students into teams and review terms with my students in that way. http://www.studenthandouts.com/study-games/american-history-games/07-civil-war-reconstruction-study-games.html

     In the past, I've used a numerous and wide array of internet-based resources for my school work. I used basic search functions in google when I would go search for internet resources for my schoolwork. After listening to the podcast, I noticed that I used some techniques the podcast mentioned, such as the design of a website and how user-friendly the website is. If I can't navigate through the website to find the material I need I would quickly find another website. When I use internet resources, the websites appeal and navigation really impact whether I use that source or not.

     I never realized Google had little tools to use for specific searches, nor did I know how much Google Scholar is helpful in finding internet sources. I was surprised when looking up videos and when I had to use google scholar on how easy it was to find my sources I needed for the web hunt assignment.

WEB HUNT CHALLENGES
1. You want to play a game with your students to help them have fun and study for the upcoming test on science. Can you find an educational online game for your students?
2. Your students are writing a research paper on World War I, Can you find an online resource that holds primary sources for your students to use?

#3

     After going through all the ELA Standards, the standards that i feel most comfortable with are the Informational Text and the History/Social Studies standards. Having a background in web design coding really helps with my ability to create presentations with interactive web elements in the informational text standards. All my social studies classes have all used a wide variety of technology for presentations, assignments, and homework. The standard I wish for more preparation is the Science/Technical standards. I never had much practice in diagrams or models that had to do with science as its my least favorite subject.

     The technology/software applications I would like to use with my students is mostly social media, specifically twitter, and new software that is called Google Docs. The digital concepts I would have to address would be proper etiquette over social media and digital law pertaining to outside sources being sued on assignments, homework, etc. With my students being 11-12th grade, my students would be fully immersed in social media and will have a great deal of knowledge of technology. I have to make sure my students are smart, exceptional digital citizens in order to use social media with my students.

     Creating the newsletter by hand without templates gave me more skills in Microsoft Word that I haven't had before. I found the newsletter to be fairly average in creating it, not to hard but still requiring effort to put in to create it. Creating this newsletter from scratch really gave me insight on what newsletters should look like and what content should be put in it.