Week+6-+Feb+22nd

Class Reflection


 * PRESENTATIONS:**

I enjoyed the presentations and have posted the key websites I found may be helpful in my teaching career.

//Great Canadians in History//
 * www.bibme.org

//English Poetry// The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald- by Gordon Lightfoot
 * pictorial interpretation and explanation

//World Religions// Aboriginal Spirituality
 * www.prezi.com

//Physics// Optics
 * www.explorelearning.com
 * Math, Science

//Science- Earth and Space Unit// Stars
 * Celestia- looking at the constellations

//Religion// Jesus' values in the Gospel
 * www.biblegateway.com


 * TEACHING**:

Ontario Education Resource Bank (OERB)
 * I found this website to be helpful but more of an idea bank. The lessons that are given are excellent starting off points for an enriching lesson.

Ontario Software Acquisition Program Advisory Committee
 * Wow, I did not realize the great programs that could be available to my board. I noticed that Dragon 10.1 is apart of the software available which I learned about last week.

Creative Commons
 * Defining copyright is a great idea in a world with unlimited resources that are illegal to use. If more people subscribe to creative commons we could share more resources legally.

Content Block
 * Block search words
 * Block URL
 * Examines jpeg and see how many pixels is skin tone
 * Gaming (key word and URL)

Multimedia Link = =

This image represents the idea of an internet firewall. Ironically, they have people watching them in a Big Brother fashion which is clearly inefficient.

[|flickr.com/photos/ 19722796@N00/895053941/] Reading

= = __Leading and Learning with Technology__, published by ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education), September, 2008.

Reflection on Reading

I am torn on the subject of Internet control. I do not believe **prohibition** is a good decision where responsibility can be taught instead. We do not need the **Great Firewall of China** to be repeated. I found **Mr.Osuna's argument** about pro-anorexia sites to be **convincing**, however, about the damage that obvious negative activity can have on minors. There will always be people trying to push the limits of what they can do so even banning sites will not completely stop these sites. I think I would support more internet control but **I find the endeavour overwhelming** as there are a 'google' of sites on the internet and I do not know how they could keep up with monitoring them all.

Technology Corner

Video games continue to be a prominent part of our society. It may be useful to incorporate this knowledge gained by digital natives into the classroom. Wii is a great interactive gaming system that is soon to come out with television and movie streaming capabilities in Netflix. Perhaps our classroom can use these gaming systems to show videos and possibly video games when applicable.