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Chapter 8

                  This chapter focused on using the web for teaching and learning. I was unaware of all of the tools for teachers that are free on the internet! I learned that there are classroom management tools that are downloadable or online tools for teachers. I really liked that idea that there are test generators and electronic grade books on line. I knew that you could find lesson plans on line but I was unaware of the amount of worksheets that you could get on line as well! I liked reading about the idea of Keypal assignments. I think that would be a neat idea to have my students do. I would like to have a class web site in the future. I think this will make it easy to communicate with parents. If they are aware of what is going in the classroom I think it will help their child’s performance.

                  I will use the tools that are available on the internet to enhance my teaching. The only thing that is frustrating is the filtering behind the internet. I understand that there are items and articles that need to be blocked but the amount of things that you can’t access seems to be ridiculous. At schools I have been apart of and had to use their computers I felt annoyed that I could access certain sites. I wanted to find pictures of extinct animals and they filtered many sites that I wanted to enter. I think that is the only draw back with using the internet. I think my best bet would be to save the image on a flash drive and then play it on the desktop instead of through the internet.