Week+6

Awesome resource: bibme.org.: Useful for creating references. Although word 2007 now has this within the program for its users. I also noticed it does not particularly have every book in its data base making it kind of a waste of time. __Comments__: I feel the short lesson on what the proper citing methods to use and credible websites to use is very important before any research is conducted, and this group did that exceptionally well.
 * Group 1** - History of Great Canadians

Great lesson plan for researching stanzas in a poetry unit. I feel a research assignment based over the internet is a great way for students to learn of the resources that are reliable and those that are not trustworthy.
 * Group 2** - Poetry Lesson

Resource Prezi - Presentations Prezi is Fun and awesome - I used this for a science presentation later on in the week and it looks great. I'm sure I'll use it again. However, make sure to save. Ulike Google documents which autosave the prezi says that it autosaves, but it doesn't. See it here: Science Prezi
 * Group 3** - Aboriginal Spirituality -

=**Group 4** - Allison and I presented:= Optics Lesson WebQuest Page - [|Optics Lesson Plan.rtf] [|Optics Lesson Plan.docx] Our lesson plan went over well. Students had time to play with the elearning Gizmos and I feel that it would wok well. The only thing I'm not convinced of is whether this type of learning is actually better than using real objects. Instead, next time, I might just use the gizmos in class a demo with real hands-on objects for students to use. There is something eerie about a virtual instrument as opposed to an actual object, I feel the seperation there is important to make.

Space Exploration Studies Looked at celestia, real-time look at universe and a video of the known universe.
 * Group 5** - Space Exploration Studies[[image:celestia.jpg align="right"]]

I enjoyed this lesson as I really like the exploration of space.

Not surte if I enjoyed this lesson as it isn't really where my beliefs lie, but I respect the fact they are trying to use technology. The biblegateway is a bit daunting fromt he outset and may lead students off on tangents from course material. I think this would need a lot of monitoring.
 * Group 6** - Religion Lesson

A common point made for each presentation was making sure to ask the students questions at the beginning to engage students into the subject area.

Looked at OSAPAC It lets teachers know what software can be downloaded and used with the available rights from the school board.

What is creative commons: Licensing that allows some rights to be reserved and others not. Free to use. Allows advanced searches in Google. Content filtering: Wikipedia But what about proxy servers? How can we get ahead of the wave of technologies out there? U89, 3G antennas. Good question that I feel teachers are still struggling with. Some have given up the fight. I think that this is ultimately the approach our schools should take. What's better, a student looking at damaging sites in secrecy or having it found out in the schools where help can be found? Truthfully, all this filtering and screening raises the question - Are we censoring our youth from the world and thereby making these actions appealing in the process? I am not sure either way. At least with the complete access available, we could use tools like you tube and others that have ltos of great content to offer as well.

=Challenging Cyberbullying= Cyberbullying I don't think cyberbullying is likely to go away anytime soon as this article would hope. There need to be more information groups in place to educate young people of the repercussions of cyberbullying. If students become educated in the laws surrounding technology, they would be less likely to commit a crime. This goes along with one of the points this article has to make: Kids Help has a program in place that attempts to educate the young on cyberbullying tactics that exist and I feel this would serve the public well if it were incorporated into our school system as part of the mandatory curriculum for grade 6 students. I will, of course, try to use in my classroom to establish a clear set of rules regarding acceptable behaviours at the beginning of the school year, top have everyone informed.
 * __Response to Reading:__**
 * Integrate curriculum-based anti-bullying programs into classrooms.**