Unit+1,+Accessing+Information

Throughout the course thus far we have discussed various effective tools and important topics for the classroom. Search engines were an initial focus, and we learned which types of engines work best for specific uses. An overview of the class gave us ideas of what we'll be able to create as teachers ourselves. Copyright was another important topic we covered. Siting information properly, using credible sources, and learning how to retrieve information that we may legally use were all lessons under the copyright category. Creating wikis was the next topic we encountered, and this tool made it possible for us to explore RSS feeds. Evaluating educational websites was the first assignment we completed via our wiki page. Our wikis have allowed us to collaborate as a group, and work collectively. We also used our wikis to create surveys regarding our focus of education, language arts. Our classmates were able to access this survey, and give us their results. Next we focused on using excel, and recorded our survey's results into a spreadsheet. This created a visual representation of the results.