The URL is usually split into three parts. You will always find the ‘http://’ which shows it is an internet address. Next you will find the domain which might tell you to what specific agency or business that the website belongs to or explains. The last part is the domain designator which “indicates the type of content one would find on the website” (Robyler & Doering, 2013, p.217). This would be beneficial to students and teachers alike because the domain name and designator can tell them roughly what to expect from the website, thus decreasing search time.
Search Engine - How can learning to use search engines help you/students find better information?
Search engines provide people with a list of topics by the keywords they search for. This is very useful because it allows a person to find multiple websites with the given keyword. Having multiple websites can help a teacher or student find knowledge on a certain subject. The textbook gives examples of major search engines and metacrawlers, which use more than one search engine at a time to find what a person types in (Robyler & Doering, 2013, p.219).
Internet Tools - Choose an internet tool that you could utilize in the classroom
E-Portfolios would be a great example of an internet tool that I could use in the classroom. This will allow students to “organize, revise, and store digital assets they have created inside and outside the classroom” (Robyler & Doering, 2013, p.224). This could be a great way to have students submit their work at the end of a semester. They could keep up with their work through their portfolios without having to worry about lost papers. This would be a great way to keep the students and myself organized.
Favorite Websites
I feel as though the website www.secondlife.com would be a fun way to allow kids to interact while learning. It is a free website which allows all kids to join at no cost. This is a great way for “fostering visual literacy, motivating students to develop writing and other communication skills (Robyler & Doering, 2013, p.223). It gives kids an opportunity to become someone else and forget their problems in their own world. It could encourage them to enter a new world of learning while giving them “literally, a second life” (Robyler & Doering, 2013, p.223).
I also think wikispaces are a great way for students to develop and explore their own ideas. Teachers can assign students certain criteria for the students to meet, but allows them to show their own ideas to communicate with one another (Robyler & Doering, 2013, p.224). www.qwiki.com could become am awesome sight because it creates a “human-like stroytelling approach to searching content” (Robyler & Doering, 2013, p.224). I would love to use this in the classroom so I can engage students to want to learn and express their own ideas.
This teacher gives a great example of how she implements her wikispaces:
M3 - This is a great way example of how to implement wiki into classroom settings!! http://t.co/VLuhe06zKl #ED527UM
— Alex Strickland (@AL4Strick) October 3, 2013
There certainly are a lot of potential benefits to wikis since they have "users contribute and modify content, sometimes on a daily basis." (Roblyer and Doering, p 223) Anyone can add their thoughts and discoveries as needed at any time. Even up to the last minute a student can offer an idea that their classmates or even their teacher might not have thought of but at the same time helps the project coalesce
ReplyDeleteI was really interested in metacrawlers. Until this chapter I had never even heard of a metacrawler. The fact that they use more than one search engine at the same time to locate articles make them an extremely valuable tool in finding content on a subject (Roblyer and Doering, 2013).
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