Blog 6

My two favorite assignments in this class where the digital storybook and the wiki front page assignment. I enjoyed the digital storybook because I love working with pictures and I think digital storybooks are a neat way to present them. I was glad we learned how to do those. I enjoyed the wiki front page assignment because I learned how to embed videos into a website and also learned about the teacher video site. These tools will be very helpful in the future.
The top technology tools I plan on using in my future classroom are: digital storybooks, concept maps in inspiration, blogs, and web quests. I will use digital storybooks to present work in units my students have done as well as a fun way to present activities on days when parents are in the classroom. I will use concept maps because students need to know how to make them and I think that it will be more fun and challenging if they make them on the computer. I will use blogs to communicate with parents. I will use web quest to present lessons and have students do work and research on the computer. I believe these things will help my students be actively engaged in classroom assignments and enjoy school!
I would like to get better at making and presenting pod cast. I will get better at this by practicing the skill. I would also like to get better at adding stuff to my wiki and blog. I will do this by playing with it and seeing what happens. Sometimes trial and error work best on the computer.

This website has been produced by the United States Environmental Assessment Center. I am unsure about the knowledge and authority this organization has. I have not heard of this organization. The research on this website is all done internally which makes this site less creditable in my opinion. I believe this website is one sided and does not contain all the information that it should. One bias I saw was everything is about what is happening to the environment. The writers are not telling about what other factors could be contributing or how it is effecting the animals that are given the DHMO.

I am not convinced that DHMO should or should not be banned. I would have to know how DHMOs effect the general population as well as the environment. I believe that a lot of organizations go against one item and do not learn all the facts about everything that could have the same effects as the item listed.