Wikipedia Scanner

Wikipedia can not be trusted. That's my opinion. There are alot of more sources that students can find information pertaining to research. Wikipedia sometimes do not have their fact straight. Some professors do not allow student to use Wikipedia for their papers, not because of pragerism but it isn't a reliable source.

Correcting Links That Do not Work

The four important reasons that the links do not work:

1. The link is not correctly spelled.
2. Nothing is placed between the two parts of a tag.
Apple's Web Site.
3. You forgot to include http:// in the address. It must be included.

International class bloggs

http://goddessmirador.gaia.com/blog/2008/9/my_k-1_international_classroom_in_niger_west_africa

This website talks about a K-1 blogg in Niger, W. Africa. The website starts of with this passage: "ANOTHER WAY 2 CELEBRATE our Beautiful Oneness... I am working on a website for my classroom. Each day I play the role I have been given right now as a K-1 teacher at the American International School in Niger. I count all my blessings among children from all corners of the world." On the side of the site it lists all the rent and not so recent posts. One post for example: LONG LIFE,USA! LONG LIFE Obama, where it talks middle school students at the American International School in Niamey, NIGER /West Africa came in before 5:30 AM to be able to watch the election results and Obama's touching speech on TV. We all shared breakfast in our small TV room in the Community Center.

Blogging in the classroom

http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/weblogs/

This website breaks down blogging in simple English. On the website it breaks down all the catagories of using blogging as a personal learning network. The man on the website states on the website that Blogs as personal learning networks can change that and open you up to a whole new world of possibilities. At the same time, he introduced the concept of a personal learning network. Facilitated by blogs and RSS Feeds, the purpose of the PLN is professional development within your area of interest. This idea of building your own professional development network--where you find who you can learn from, ask questions of them, comment on their thoughts and links, and have them do the same for you--is one of the major benefits of blogging and podcasting. It is the art of conversation captured in digital format.

http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers
The second website I found was this one. It talks about supporting blogging. And also give a number of catagories including different class bloggs.

Randy Pausch’s Lecture

The lecture was broken up into three parts: 1.My childhood dreams. 2. Enabling the dreams of others, and 3. Lessons learned: how you can achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others.
The inphasis of "My childhood dreams" was the fact that children are always going to have childhood dream when they start school. You probably have heard children say "I want to be a doctor when I grow up," or I want to be a fireman, or even a lawyer. I the video he gives a list of things that he dreamed of being. One of which was to be Captain Cerk off of Star Track. But in the end he became an educator.One of the phrases he said about learning is Its all about the fundamental because if you don't know the them the fantsy stuff won't work.
The second topic he talks about was enabling the dreams of others. Basically helping others forefill there goals in life. It is our job as future educator and educators not to crush every students dream but to help them achieve tasks to there full potential.
He talks about a coach that coach him football that road him hard all through high school. He was tell another administrator about it. And the administrator told him some valuable information. He said, "That was a good thing because if you screw it up and no one is saying anything to you that means they've given up. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

The fischbowl Video

The question of the movie is "Did you Know, and alot of Americans, espicially students don't know the exstent of what was presented in this movie. The movie talks about globalization in what is described as Third World Countries. For example India, And China. Alot of American jobs are going over there, as well as our language. In the process the people that already live there are loosing their sense of tradition and heritage.
I have mixed feeling about what is going on over there. Globalization has been going on since the colonial period. The British empire was built on globalization, and it crossed over to the USA. The US learned from the European nations. And now the US is the modern day British empire.