Week 1 Blog

This week's assignments were a little confusing even for me, someone that thinks he is technology gifted. I still don't know if I figured out the google talk thing.

I liked the website evaluation activity. It has now focused me to look deeper into the website that I use in the classroom as well as website that I use in papers that I write. I used to never check who wrote the website or articles on websites and I would pass them off like this person knew what they were talking about and a credible source. Two days ago, I went through laptop training with the school district and they STRESSED the importance of verifying what you put on your webpage. I had to put so many waivers and disclaimers.

I have been focusing in the past few weeks in the media on how the views of the newspapers and news on tv's affect what we see. I think this is especially true with websites. Anybody can post anything on the internet and pass it off as gold.

Good enough for week one.

Rock Chalk,
Kevin