Wednesday, November 22, 2006

I Know That

I Know That is a great educational site for grades 1-8. The sound and animation quality is excellent and the interactive activities are engaging and well-done.

I've spent hours on this site and haven't found everything yet, but what I have found has been great.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Educational Games

Here are some of the online educational games we looked at in Neville.

English Language Arts

Math

  • Arcade games on FunBrain (little educational value, but develops hand-eye coordination, mouse use, and keyboard use

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Neville School

I used the following links in Neville school. We were talking about online safety and Net Smarts.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Vanguard Blogs

While I was in Vanguard, we made some blogs, including Mrs. Senicar's Class blog.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Wikipedia

I love Wikipedia.

According to Wikipedia, "Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based free content encyclopedia project." Think of a huge encyclopedia on the Net that anyone can edit when they see errors or ommisions, and you're thinking about Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is a perfect example of what many people call New Media, because anyone can contribute to the articles. This scares a lot of people. How can you trust the articles? How do you know they're accurate?

Well, it turns out that Wikipedia is fairly accurate on most topics that aren't controversial, such as science or history. When a topic is controversial, discussions take place about the authenticity of the information. Think of it as an online encyclopedia where the writers have open debate about accuracy.

If you haven't seen Wikipedia, I recommend you take a look at it. It's a great resource for general information and it works well as a starting point for the discussion of New Media.