Web 2.0

Facebook could be used in education by creating groups on facebook for your class. That way, you could post announcements and send messages to your group members/students and they could always know any new changes that you make because kids are always on facebook. Another 2.0 tool that could be used is PE Central. This is an effective tool that could be used more by pe teachers because it has hundreds of ideas for activities from different teachers around the nation. Also, it allows for teachers to communicate with each other and link up on blogs and share ideas and techniques.

IPT video

here is the link to the video that jake made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SaPKZIEwHE&feature=player_embedded#!

iMovie Project

Our theme for the movie is "Fit for Life." We havent talked about the second movie yet, but I was thinking of having it start out with different people of different ages doing different activities:dance, sports, walking, etc.

Internet Safety

I was really surprised about how little information is needed to hurt someone. I have realized how important Internet safety truly is. Internet safety is important to know and to constantly update. Some of the changes I made were taking my phone number and other personal information off of my facebook. Also, I went through and edited all my privacy settings so that only my friends could see most of my information. Another thing I did, was to go to my class website and edit a few things on there as well as all my emails. In the future I will make sure I always check the URL of any website that I get on to make sure it says https if I plan on entering private information on it. Also, I will make sure that I check the URL to make sure I'm on the site I wanted and think I am on.

This applies to the students I will teach because they need to know how easy it is for people to locate/stalk them, or to even steal their identities. This is also important information for them to know as they have more blogs and social networking sites that they join. They should remember to check their privacy settings constantly and make sure there is no or little information on where they are or could be found.

I taught the Internet safety lesson to my room mates. I told them about how easy it is to find people with just their names and phone numbers or any other piece of information. I also told them about how banks will never send a link in an email asking you to click it and go to their website. I told them how people send that and then when people type in their personal information, they keep it so that they then have access to their accounts. I also told them to make sure the URL says https before putting in private information and also to check the URL to make sure that they are on the website they wanted to be on. It was interesting to see how much they didn't know, and how they immediately went to their online blogs and social networking sites to check their information.

Website Project

I really enjoyed this project. Its a useful skill to have and be able to utilize. This will be helpful as a teacher because I can post assignments and announcements on my website for both parents and students to look at. I think I could create another website using google sites because of how easy it made it. This project was a lot easier than i thought it was. I always imagined it to be hard, but google made it easy. Check out my website: https://sites.google.com/site/adamandersonsclasswebsite/

Challenges

Some challenges I was having was changing the template. I found out that the way to do it is to go to manage site, and then click on change template. This is my first time to create a website and have found everything new and hard. But i have found out that most of the changes i really need to make are actually pretty easy.

Copyright Laws-Good or Bad?

In general, I think copyright laws are good. They're good because they allow those who spent money on a work to be paid for it. Also, I think it helps generate more creativity and spontaneity which helps cause growth in every field. One change I would make is to making copies of a chapter of a book for school. Personally, I dont think you should have to buy a whole book just to use one chapter. I think that you should be able to pay a small one time fee (if the author demands it) to use it as you need. As a teacher you wouldn't be claiming it as your own work, and if you included all the information of the the text from where you got it, I think it should be fine.