Ending post for class

I really enjoyed this class. I would find myself talking with other students about the weeks assignments or some funny posts that someone wrote. I had fun discussing issues in our google talk.

There are many things that I learned in this class. The first thing I learned is all the issues and safety items I need to be teaching my students about the internet. The school I teach at is about to have an internet safety course for parents to go to next week. I thought about going to it to learn more safety tips but it is on a good tv night and I unfortunately do not have tevo/DVR. I tend now to keep my eyes on all of my students computer screens when in the computer lab. I look for what they have minimized and hiding. Second, I learned about plagiarism on the internet. I learned about what can be used and what cannot be used. I would tend to use things and give verbal credit but never write anything down about where I got it and how I am using it. Lastly, I learned about the dangers of facebook and the myths about the internet. I have been more careful on facebook and added new security settings. When I was at the gym last month, I was watching tv and they had a discussion about this school district that would suspend teachers for having social webpages like facebook or myspace. They wrote it into their teacher contracts and have place one teacher on administrative leave for having "friends" on facebook that are her students.

I feel more prepared for using technology in the classroom. It is hard to use a lot of the technology available in the gym. I always worry about if I buy something nice would it get broken by elementary students. I enjoyed the text book reading and the post on the discussion board each week. It was great to see what each student thought about the issues that the text book chapters talked about. I learned from the kids book more than the adult technology book. I felt the kids book was well written and easy to understand. I did not like reading the Blue Nowhere. I never really got into that book and the style of the book is not something I like to read or enjoy reading. I do read a lot of non-fiction and biography books. There are only a handful of fiction books that I enjoy and they are mainly written for younger people.

Overall, great class and I hope you are our teacher for an actual class so we can meet you in person. Thank you and Rock Chalk Jawhawk, KU