Blog post Numero Two.

Tell us the level of students with whom you plan on teaching as well as your content area or the content area you have chosen for the newsletter. Tell us the standard you are working with. Then, describe the benchmark and/or grade level indicators you were working with on the Newsletter assignment.
Most importantly, reflect on how your newsletter activity represents a learner-centered activity where your future students (on their own or with younger children, working with the teacher) would be able to construct meaning regarding the benchmark or grade level indicators by using the technology of word processing.



I'd like to teach high school art.  The standard I chose was "Connections, Relationships, and Applications.  The grade level indicator is "survey various art theories or movements and make a presentation to explain one of them."

I think this ativity would be very good for future students.  It'd teach them about Word, and art theories/movements.  They'd learn a lot of how to use word by actually using it, and they'd have to research an art movement, and basically teach it to other students and parents.  To me, this seems like a perfect engine for learning, in this case at least.  Each student had to construct their own knowledge of the movement and of Word.  And because it teaches others, they'd retain a lot more than if they were lectured on the movement.  It's the bottom of the learning pyrimid and constructivism side by side, like a crime fighting duo.

Eptp Blog #1

I think wikipedia is both a blessing and a burden.  It is a blessing because it's intentions are good and when those intentions are fallowed though, wikipedia is a good collection of knowledge.  but it can be a burden because where there is the option to post whatever you'd like, then there will always be vandalism. 

Even with all attempts at security, there will always be the "facts" that fall through the cracks.  For instance, my comp I teacher, as a demonstration against wikipedia, put edited the page for some date; saying that a queen of Persia named after her friend was born on that date long ago.  My teacher said it was on the site for nearly six months before it was taken down.  I feel like if you're subtle enough and clever enough, you could pass lies off as facts. 

I do think that the pages that have citations at the bottom are good.  The wikipedia page might not be a credible source but the links to other pages and articles might be. I know a college librarian who, when she needs to write a paper, will actually start by going to wikipedia and going to those external sources. 

I don't feel like wikipedia should be a main source for information on a school paper, but if you want to know the discography for some band then go for it.  With matters of school, I think wikipedia should be used more as a gateway to other sources than as a source itself.