Blogroll reflection.

Well, today I experimented with my blogroll. I can see that this may become a very useful tool for people like me in the future. I think this simply because it's a fun way to keep yourself up to date on the latest topics throughout the education world.

The blogs I chose to follow all have a certain significance to me that can help me in the future, whether it be in the next couple months or the next couple years. The first blog I will discuss is the About.com Special education post by Jerry Webster. This blog has many things included on it, however the two posts that caught my eye were one about a refection of a book he read about teacher behaviors within a classroom and the second was about the Best Buddies Program, which has been mentioned to me on campus a few times.

My next blog was on a piece of Assistive technology called the Mindview 4. MatchWare MindView is a comprehensive, visual learning tool designed to help you develop and organize ideas. This is one tool i had never seen before that i could see extremely useful in a classroom

My third blog also had to do with Assistive technology in the classroom. I personally thought this was interesting too because it had all sorts of postings on how to use technology in several different situations. For example one that stood out to me was how a blind student could use an iPod touch in class. Also it includes a great post and video on how you can use low tech tools in an inclusion classroom.

And last but not least I chose a blog for me (click here for blog). You may not know this but i recently discovered that I am a sub-par Power Point user. Well, my last web blog i have chosen contains 100 ways and counting to be more successful teachers by using Power Point. The reason are clear why i chose this blog, I can use it for the rest of my teaching life! 

Debriefing the WebQuest assignment.....

Well to be very short sweet and to the point. I will never use webquest ever again. I really hope that I wasn't the only one who had trouble with this assignment but I spent all day on this assignment and I turned it in out of pure frustration at about 12 30 tonight. I've never done an assignment and just been so clueless. I literally have no clue why it was so difficult but the directions wern't clear. You had us do the tutorial on how to create the Webquest, and then I thought maybe I was just completing the teachers webquest from north carolina, but were we creating our own webquest for a parent? Honestly I still have no idea. Why would we have completed the tutorial on how to create a webquest if we were just going to fill one out? As I said I am at the peak of my frustration at 1:00 am on saturday morning and at this point I'm just venting, but I have never spent so much time on an assignment and just been so clueless. Hopefully you can explain this to me later but I don't even know what to say. Sorry I'm reacting this way but I really can't help it. Esspecially because I'm pretty sure I didn't complete the assignment the right way to begin with.

My First google doc experience!

Quite honestly folks google docs is a great concept but, it has it's flaws. I would much rather do the work on my own home computer and be completly secure about who can edit your document after you put all that hard work in. I mean really I see the upsides to it but i need that security at home, you never know who's out there trying to delete your work. However it is quite easy to use,

                                                                 -Eric D