Word it up!

Today i learned that there are many things you can do with google documents. One thing that i know you can do is post things so that only people can view it. The Sky View Lacrosse team uses this to show where they are ranking on the team daily. I think that this is really cool because it is much easier to manage than say a website and it is also so much more private. I wanna teach 5th grade and there are many things that i can use google docs to help me achieve different standards in the class. Well to start it can help with their keyboarding skills, it can help with their literacy skills. You could even set up with another class to be pen pals or something with other kids. They could then save their conversations and have them for the rest of their lives.

Copyright and Me.

I have learned many about copyright today. One of the most important things I learned was that you must always get permission to use something. It does not matter if it is print, video, or audio, you always need to make sure you do not need permission to use it. There are so many copyright laws going around you really need to be up to date on what is good to use and what is not good to use. I thought it was really helpful to go over the case studies and see how we should handle each situation. It really helped deciding what is breaking copyright law.

YETC

Today we went to the YETC and took a tour. This was my 3rd tour of the YETC but don't worry, I still learned some stuff. I think it is really interesting how you can get so many resources and yet you can only get it as a student. It really makes me think i need to get a external hard drive and get all the resources. That would be my 3rd external hard drive but maybe i will just make it a specific school resource and only have school things on it. I also think that it would be really cool to rent some materials out and get used to it, then try using it in my praticum. You get it checked out for 3 weeks so you might as well try it out. My favorite part was the boy playing the MMORPG in the corner. That just made me laugh real hard. He will probably be there till the lab closes, which in my mind is quite the accomplishment.