Blog/Reading Questions:
- After viewing all web sites listed in the Web Resources for Classroom link - which two web sites would you consider using in your future classroom? Please explain and provide supporting details to your response (you still need to use APA citations - but you may be citing web sites).
Explore the world in 3D from anywhere (google.2011). This would be great hands on activity to get students to really understand the world we live in. There is no better tool than a 3D visual aid to really set home our world. This would be great with social studies or current events areas, which with special education I very well will be giving instruction and lessons in various content areas. You really could use this website in a variety of different content areas such as foreign languages, foods, and even science.
The other website that I would use is teen second life. I am very familiar with this website. I actually had to use it for an online class. Explore destinations inspired by real cities, such as Dublin and Tokyo. Visit new spaces unique to Second Life, such as a Renaissance-inspired Camelot or the 3D home for your alma mater. Immerse yourself in any environment you can imagine: watch the sunset from a mountaintop, dance the night away in a club or plumb the depths of the ocean on a scuba trip(second life, 2011).
It was very difficult to use at first, however it was pretty neat. I was able to create an online avatar character. I did make the mistake of some how swimming in the ocean and ended up standing on the table in the conference room. This was a bit embarrassing. It was very cool how we were able to have a live conference with a speaker in China. You could hear everything real-time and everyone spoke through his or her avatars. I thought it was crazy how you even need to make your avatar walk into the building and sit in a chair in the appropriate room. A that moment I realize that school for my own children will be completely different than the school that we are all used to today.
Google, (2011). Google Earth. Retrieved from
Second Life, (2011). Retrieved from http://secondlife.com/
Great sites and ideas for integration into the classroom! Teen Second Life is a pretty neat web site... and like you said, a little difficult to use at first... Thank you for sharing your personal experience! I only see a few minor issues with your post and those are all related to your references. Second Life is not the name of the organization that created that site... if you scroll down to the bottom of their page you will see that it is actually Linden Research, Inc... so that would be the organization name in your reference... and you also need to include the title fo the web page in the reference as well - that would go after the year of publication. I have an APA formatting handout/google doc on the syllabus that you could review to learn more about Internet site references.
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