I like the web quest tool because it can make the teacher's job very easy because instead of always having to come up with lesson plans on your own, you could go on the internet and find them. Web quest also has the grade or subject one is teaching and the curriculum for the grade or subject. I think that is neat because it saves you a lot of work, and is a get out of jail free card if you are not very creative.

I plan to learn how to make web pages and web sites so that my students and their families can do their homework and check it online. This would benefit both the parents and the students because I could have a help button that shows the kids how to do the problem. This would be very helpful because not all parents know how to do the work that their children are doing.

In order to achieve my educational technology goals I am going to keep the textbook we bought for this class and make sure to read through it reguarly and to use it whenever I need help. I can also use the websites in the book to help me with stuff I do not understand.

Informational theft is one thing that stood out to me in this chapter. When you are using a public computer it is not safe to store personal information on it. If you are the only private user, then it might be safe, but it can result in information loss. System failures also result in a loss of information. They occur because of electrical power powers.

New skills acquired since my last posting have been the better understanding of blog spot. This will be very helpful in the future because if I want to use this with my students, I will be very familiar with this and it would help the students now.

I am so ready for the semester to end!!!! It's been great, but I'm really looking forward to seeing it end!!

In reviewing other students blog the thing that interest me the most was the length of the other students blogs. It made me think, "WOW, they really have a lot to say", it made me want to go back and review my blogs.

The next thing I want to learn relating to technology is how to make music or CD's. I saw an episode of The Cosby Show where Olivia was at school and they were learning their times tables and her teacher was using the drums and music to teach them. The children seemed to really be enjoying this even though this was a television show the children was very into it.

I might take some kind of musical class here to pursue this nusical teaching thing. It seems very interesting and fun!!