Week+7

Week 7

__Should We Establish National Web Filtering Guidelines Article__ •Agree that educating on safe Internet usage is key, but some parts of the Internet have to be blocked off •Internet is a massive web, cant be sure what you are going to stumble onto by accident •Can not be too restrictive, or student will turn to illegal means of getting info or not use the Internet at school •Have to start educating students as early as possible, since children are being saturated with technology today and have increasingly easier access to the Internet •Educating has to be a team effort with schools have parents support, or schools will see students becoming resentful towards them if they have unfiltered/unmonitored Internet access at home __Presentations__
 * Alternative to podcasting is Gcast, free phone service that will produce an audio log for you
 * E-learning modules from ministry save you from having to make your own from scratch
 * Science can be fun, especially elements that are explosive
 * Comics and graphic novels can modernize classic literature, e.g. Shakespeare
 * Comic Life! software allows you to make your own graphic novels, if they don’t exist
 * Fun to use program, easy to navigate
 * Can make as simple or complex of graphic representation as you want
 * Has a particular format, that you will need to format to a more accessible type
 * http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/diamante/
 * simple explanations of English terms
 * creates poems for you in the style of your choice
 * http://www.dietitians.ca/public/content/eat_well_live_well/english/eatracker/#
 * helpful tool to track your diet
 * gives you areas to improve, what you should more or less of and activities you should do more of
 * I re-learnt some math formulas and learnt about the International Space Station
 * Some of the formulas I reviewed were area of a cube, triangle and cylinder