Internet Resources

The internet has a variety of resources by which not only teachers, students or business officialss can view, but material viewable by the whole world! I got a chance to explore a few of the tools useful for communication and finding information on the world wide web.

Considering my previous essential question for my unit plan, I choose to look up topics related to this question while searching these resources. There were several useful cites and tools such as blogs, student-friendly search engines, and image and sound resourcess. To culiminate everything I created a works cited page to allow easy access to all the websites I found useful. I was able to find information about a cloud-creating experiment from both blogs and student-friend search engines, a biography on Amelia Earhart, and how the Water Cycle works. There were also some interesting blogs about cloud formation which would allow a lesson on the different types of clouds.

Here's a list of the specific web resources I found and ways in which it would be useful to incorporate these in a classroom:

• Blogs- Blogs allow students to communicate thoughts and ideas freely. It seems as though this type of communication, although not verbal, can help. I would allow the students to create blogs about research papers, project ideas and include websites they found interesting information from.
• Student-friendly search engines- These are extreme useful to students when researching almost any topic. These pages link the students to websites that they are able to understand and learn new information. I would allow the students to use these search engines any chance they get. Whether it be the formula to a math problem, a dictionary, links to research projects, or experiments.
• VoIP- I would probably use VoIP in a lesson on multicultural events. Perhaps as a class we would be able to find a class in another country, and each student could have a "penpal", but instead of writing to eachother they could actually see eachother face to face and create a few simple questions to ask about the other ones culture.
• Image, Sound, and Video resources- Theses would probably be used to enhance a powerpoint presentation. Whether its a lecture type powerpoint, or a project type powerpoint, including images, sounds, and videos will allow whichever audience to remain engaged and interested in the presentations.

I have also included a Incorporating the Internet form, which is basically a works cited page but with more deals, and a more organized fashion.