Post #7

Chapter 7 taught me about evaluating web resources to see if they are credible. The things to look for are authority, affiliation, purpose/objective, content, audience and design. These things help you to know if the website is up-to-date, inaccurate, or biased. Knowing how to evaluate websites is very important for teachers, as well as students, to make sure that the information they are getting is correct.

This chapter also talked about ways to fund classroom technology integration. The two ways to do this is by either fund-raising drives, academic contests, or by grants. Grants are usually what schools get to fund the majority, if not all of the high costs of technology for classrooms.

This week I did not learn too much because we worked on PowerPoint, and I already have a bit of experience with it. I did, however learn how to create custom animations, which is really cool because you can make each slide more unique. It also will help to keep students more interested in what you might be showing them.