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I really liked StoryBird and I thought it was a great way to 

get started in the class. I sometimes feel not very creative 

and a tool like StoryBird made it seem so much easier. 

I am definitely a digital immigrant. I felt like computers and 

technology where really not needed in our home for a long 

time. I think I was around 27 before we brought a 

computer into our home. I now understand the importance 

of technology but it needs to be monitored with children.

I feel like I had a pretty good understanding of copyright 

laws but I had no idea about the picture rights. I have been 

using picture on a lot of things and never realized that was 

a form of plagiarizing if you don't give credit.

I think that the computer and other technology are wonderful 

teaching tools. Children can speak the language of technology 

so well and it seems to make learning so interesting to them as 

soon as you put technology with it. Safety is a huge concern for 

most parents and teachers. The websites have to be monitored 

by you not someone else that is not worried about the best 

interest of your child or class. How do you know what the find 

appropriate? There where many good websites out there for 

education but that does not mean they are perfect the teacher 

or parent still needs to watch. I think children learn a lot from 

technology computer, TV,    We should use their interest to 

teach them. 

I loved creating the Newsletter. I have received them for the 

past 4 years and never knew how time consuming they where 

to create. I have used the ones I have gotten to learn so much 

about my children's class life and I understand how important 

they are to staying connected. 

I think some of my websites would fall into the 

categories of just remembering and 

understanding. I also think there is a 

possibility to go farther with the websites to 

Analyze and Evaluate. I also think on some of 

them there is the possibility to even create like 

on ABCya.

I think the WebQuest is a great idea. I feel like my knowledge of 

what all computers and computer programs can do holds me back 

sometimes. I do feel like I have learned a lot and would like to put 

all this new technology knowledge to use very soon. I feel like by 

exploring so many different things some of which I had never 

heard of I will have so much to offer. The WebQuest is something 

I think we could do as a whole class in my future teaching. I plan 

on teaching pretty young students and I think it would be 

something great to do together.

I really liked two of the Websites that you had one was in 

Evaluating http://www.watchknowlearn.org/default.aspx

the other was one I already knew about but had not seen this 

particular part which was creating word clouds 

http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm. I think we always want 

to be aiming towards the top of the Bloom's Taxonomy for our 

students. That is why I picked from Evaluating and Creating. The 

higher up the Blooms the higher the thought level.

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