Victor Dwyer: "High-tech glory or glorified play?" Maclean Hunter, 1996
According to Shelly, Cashman, and Gunter in 'Integrating Technology in the Classroom,' "Evaluating the appropriateness and effectiveness of educational technology is an important aspect of integrating current technology into the classroom...Evaluating educational technology involves determining if the technology is approopriate and enhances the teaching and learning process." In this mod, we will explore how to search and how to edit material found on the Internet. Again, the decision of the individual teacher is paramount in determining which material is to be integrated into the curriculum, and how it is to be utilized.
Search Engines have become much better as the years have gone by. In the beginning days of the Internet, thousands of unrelated items would be brought up every time you tried to seaqrch. Now, with improvement of search engines, we no longer need to learn complicated search techniques, such as Boolean Searching. However, sometimes it is beneficial to know how to narrow our search, in the beginning. And then we can try a more complex search with a few simple tools.
Try my favorite search engine, and my second favorite search engine. Google has become the standard of excellence, and I do recommend starting there. MSN, which is Microsoft, is trying to 'out-google google' with its new engine, Bing, try it and see what you think.
You can set a filter on google for strict or moderate filtering on image searches.
Also included should be your impressions of the surfing sites, and when at Thinkfinity, go to Illuminations of X-Peditions.
Go to this link, How to Edit, and try to edit a lesson plan that you have found online. Save your edited plan as a Word page, and attach it to your email assignment.
