Ch. 1-3

Wow quite the number of pages.

I'm going to start off this blog with a quick overview of what I all took from the chapters we were assigned to read. We started out with a slight overview of the internet. I finally got to learn the person's names that started the internet way back in 1993 (Berners-Lee). It then switched to the many wonders of the internet, where we learned cool facts such as in 2009 there was over 20 hours of videos uploaded to youtube per minute! The trend today finds people in all professions such as politicians using the internet. Chapter one finished off talking about how to keep our students safe from bad internet cites. It offered hints and tips of how to teach students what is a bad cite and a good one. Chapter 2 and 3 talked all about blogs. It listed many useful blogs such as Dan Sharky's Blog, and talked about how people of all ages, (even the authors 10 year old son) are now sharing their thoughts on blogs. This chapter ended by talking about and teaching some cool tools to use when starting to use Blogs. One of these was adding pictures on pg. 52. I am really excited to try and use this as my Blog is kind of lifeless.

This reading really doesn't have a huge impact on my thinking about technologies role in teaching and learning but it does surprise me that so many people are jumping on the "internet" wagon. When I was ten I rarely used the internet let alone have my own blog like the authors son. It does make me start to realize that this in the common trend and that internet and the tools associated with it will be incorporated into the classroom. If I want to be a successful teacher I will learn to use these tools and be able to pass on my knowledge to my students.

As a teacher I will start paying more attention to the tools at my access. If Blogs and school websites, and other internet tools really make our lives better than I believe it will be my responsibility to become acquainted with them and teach my students about them. I've never been great with computers but as a result of these readings I'm going to have to get better in order to give my students the best opportunity to succeed.