Internet Resources

There are many web tools that a person can use to gain more information about blogs and blog related internet resources. Some of these tools include information, videos, sounds, images, VoIP, chat, email projects, etc. There are many search engines to gain different amounts of information. A great blog search engine is Google Blogs. With this site a person can input information about a blog of interest and recieve a list of blogs that contain specific information. As a teacher, I would use this website as a tool to expose myself and students to different points of views. Blogs rather than search engines allow people to gain knowledge and input from people rather than straight facts. By reading blogs, a student can forulate his or her own opinion about the topic in question. This would be a great tool for inquiry based learning.

Websites such as http://www.findsounds.com/ allows the user to search for audio sounds and it allows you to choose the type of sound file, and the maximum file size. This would be a great tool for the classroom. As a teacher I would access this site to obtain speeches or sounds from certain time in history. As an addition to my unit, I would upload different types of music that entertains the idea of portraying certain beliefs in art. The website http://www.freefoto.com/ is available for people that want to search for exclusive photos that are not found anywhere else on the web. This site is a great tool for students and teachers to find images for projects and learning.

VoIP is an internet site that enables people to communicate on the phone VIA the web. Other websites such as SKYPE allow people to talk on the computer with a webcam. Chat is also used as an interactive communicative internet tool. Various forms of chat are available for free from the web. Some of these sites inclue MSN messager, YAHOO messager, and AOL messager (AIM). These are great applications for your computer that allow you to chat instantly with another person. This would be a useful tool in the classroom to potentially allow students to contact children from different areas.



An additional internet resource tool are email projects. Email projects such as The Monster Exchange http://www.monsterexchange.org/ allow students to communicate with other students by beginnnig an online project and emailing it to another student at a seperate location. This allows the two students to be connected through a consecutive project. All of these internet resources are very helpful to students and teachers.