Wednesday, February 29, 2012

privicy on the net



'When we get your GPS location, we put it together with other location information we have about you (like your current city).'
This is a peice directly off the Facebook policy page. they can get your GPS location. People will know where you are. Now this is not just about internet safety it's about safety in general.
This information surprised m because while I knew about the phones that could use GPS I did not know that Facebook could use it to.

reflecting

As a student watching my classmate teach was an interesting experience. Most of the lessons were well thought out and quite a few of them used the Smartboard as well as the computers. But the one thing that I wonder is how technology intergration can be done when there is only limited amouts of a certain resource. As a teacher though I found myself wondering how it will really be when I am teaching real children because as much as the project was a helpful thing it was done with our classmates so the true experience will be quite different from the practice that we did.


                                                    

Other Students Blog

I randomly went to some of the blogs created by my classmates. Some of them are very good at doing the blogs those had pretty colors and a font change as well as lots of pictures. Others are similar to mine  because they are just just posting in the best way that they know how. I really dont think that anyone reads these blogs aside from the people that have to. Also I will do blogs after this however; I do use other sites as outlets for creativity. I make videos that I post on my youtube account and I also write stories that I post on a site that was created for the purpose of people uploading stories for others to read.

                                             

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

ed. games

http://www.coolmath-games.com/lemonade/index.html
This is a link to a game called "lemonade stand". What you do is choose how many lemons, ice cubes, and sugar you want to use in the lemonade as well as how much you want to sell it for. The object of the game is to make as much of a profit at the end of a certain period of days. This game is useful because it gives the player a lot of control over the options about what to do and as a result you can gain money or lose it based on the choices you make as a gamer. Also it is fun not only for younger kids but for older people to.

   

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

the articles

I couldn't find many people that did the article assignment the first time the I remebered that it was on the disscussionboard. I know that it is a little late but I am still make a post.
So I read Johnathan Foster's review of "6 Reasons Tablets are Ready for the Classroom." (As well as the article itself.) I never though about tablets much before. But the one thing that stood out was the part about how a tablet forces you to focus on one task at a time. That is a good reason why tablets are ready for the classroom.