Part 1: Podcasts
The two students podcasts that I listened to had a few interesting websites that I have never heard of before. My favorite has to be searchypants though. Besides having a name that you can giggle at, the benefits of this site are numerous. It would allow me to create my own personal search engine and finds for my students so they do not find sites that are not valid. Many students have issues telling the difference between factual sites and nonfactual sites. This is a big problem and this site would help eliminate that problem in my classroom. It is also great in the way that parents would feel more comfortable knowing all of the information was created by the teacher. The other site I was jazzed about was http://math.com. The tutoring, lesson plans, and games would be very helpful in my classroom. Games are a great way to relate the subject matter to a thing that most every kid does on a weekly basis. I was very glad my classmates found these sites so I am able to use them in the classroom. Part 2: Website/Blog
I was very intrigued to see the difference between the different website creators being used. Google’s websites are a little more basic and do not seem as pizzazzy as wix’s website creator, but they each have their benefits. Google’s website creator seems easy to upload multiple different videos and projects the only thing I do not enjoy about it is the fact that it doesn’t divide up the posts nicely. I personally like the different pages or areas for projects instead of everything being bunched on one page. I really like the wix creator and have been using it. It allows for a variety of different backgrounds and clip art to jazz up the website. I enjoyed my classmates explanations of their projects and will be taking this example and adding explanations to my website.
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