Wrapping it up

I really learned a lot from this class. Technology is taking over our nation and I need to catch up! I really liked all the researching assignments we did because I learned a lot of new methods for searching the internet that I have now used in other classes! I am glad I decided to take this elective because I know it is going to benefit me a lot in the future!

Last assignment

Well the final week has gotten here and I really liked the idea of having us comment on each other's pages rather than doing a presentation. For one, we already had somewhat of an idea of our classmates topics and having us comment on the pages really meant we had to look through each others pages. For myself, I love being able to get feedback from other people to give me ideas I did not really think about. I also am not a student who gets excited about having to do presentations because I just do not really like talking in front of others; therefore, I loved the alternate assignment. I commented on John and Matt's web pages because I am also interested in the topic they chose. John's website could someday be useful to me because I am hoping to be a coach someday! I also commented on the parts of speech site and thought she did a great job with it!

Working on the Web Page

This week we worked on creating different subtopics for our page. I decided to split the topics up the same way I had done for the google bookmarks and placed the same internet sources I had previously found. I think this makes it very easy to navigate through our page and you can go straight to exactly what it is you are looking for. Now that I have gotten a hang of using this google websites thing it has become much simpler to create and design new pages. I ran into some troulble formatting my pages and trying to get a picture in there, but for the most part I think it turned out good! I really hope this site is something that will benefit students and teach them more about HPV!

WebQuest Creating!

This week we created a WebQuest activity to go on our web page involving our topic. I really enjoyed doing this activity because coming from a health and physical education undergrad I got to use my imagination and try to be creative. I choose to do a WebQuest because my activity would probably be centered around a middle to high school level so I wanted to go ahead and provide them with some resources. I also wanted to do an activity which got the students working together and learning the information in a manner in which they could teach their classmates. This was always a way I learned best at that age level so I figured it would be a good idea!

Fair Use

This week we completed an assignment which we had to determine whether or not using imformation for a web page would be considered fair use or not. This assigment and the checklist really helped to determine if something was in fair use and permitted to be used without permission. The assignment also forced us to read our classmates responses in order to see others views and respond to them. I think I am going to keep this checklist handy when doing other assignments which requires the use of information that is not my own knowledge.

We also had to come up with four scenarios that were either in fair use or violated it. We had determine whether it was fair use and tell why are why not it would fall under that category. This really helped me with figuring out how to determine whether or not different things would fall under fair use.

Big6

This week we worked on seaching the Big6 activity board for a lesson to critique. The first one I found was a project I have actually participated in before with elementary school students called Flat Stanley. This project gave lots of good information and complied with the Big6. There really were no activities which went along with my topic, HPV, so I choose a second one dealing with alternative fuel and shopping for cars. I even found this to be an interesting activity and think it would have been fun to do while I was in high school. Overall this assignment was just another thing to get me searching the web and better at working with computers. Hopefully learning about the Big6 will help me create to a good activity for my topic.

Creating a Page

This week we began the creation of our web page. I have never created my own web page before so it was neat to learn and figure out how to create my own. It was difficult for me to find a picture because a lot of the photos dealing with HPV were not really appropritae. I thought about using one to make it a reality but because I am including middle school students in my age group I decided to hold off. I think by splitting it up and doing the web site piece by piece will help to create a better page.