Weekly Blog Number Four

In class we started to learn about UEN. We learned how to make a website, and all the free tools and information that are located on this website. We learned how to make our website operate with it's personal, and public page. I found it very interesting how this all worked. I never knew how to do any of this stuff before, and now I feel somewhat confident in the things that I am doing.

This particular assignment of the UEN and Pioneer Library savenger hunt was stressful for me. At first I was so confused and I couldn't get anything to work for me. Then as I went on with the assignment and took a big long breath, everything started to make sense, slowly but surely. I really thought that the website guideline tutorial on our classroom website was very helpful. It helped me to remember what all I needed in certain tabs. I definately could have used some more in class time to figure things out, but it all went well. Every week I get a little bit more stressed about things we are learning, but by the end of the week I have learned something very useful.

Now that I know my way around UEN a little better, I'm excited to use it's resources. I love how it gives you the lexile level of reading and gives you many grade appropriate ideas for lesson plans. There is just so much information on UEN for teachers and students. I am truly amazed. I plan to use the ideas for lesson plans they have and build on them. I plan to use the website for ideas for service projects and for in class presentations. I plan to use the Culture Grams to provide information on differnet places and cultures for my students. Honestly, I'm not too familiar with everything on this site yet; but I can see that there is a lot of good tools and information for teachers on this website. I plan to use it.

The video I watche this week was from teacher tube, the url is:http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com. This video was just a fun video about how we are scared of technology. It brought up good points, how there is no need to be scared, that we need to adequately prepare students to use the technology at their fingertips. It talked about how there is no required curriculum on internet safety and there are no national technolgy curriculum standards. I think that as teachers it is our job to prepare students in these areas. Especially since technology is just becoming more and more part of everyday life and careers.