Week+-+6+-+February+22,+2010

This is an interesting article that seems to be both for and against internet filtering. At first I had the opinion that we should teach our students how to be internet savvy. However, I obviously do not know about the worser sites out there. I did not know that there are sites advocating for anorexia. Now I believe that filtering and teaching our students how to be smart about the internet are both important. I am just not sure how to go about the filtering. For teaching, perhaps a media study project would be to have students find one of these websites and create one of their own websites negating the other site and giving proper information. This would teach them how to recognize these sites and it would increase the amount of "good" websites. General Today we did our lesson plan presentations. I thought they were very well done. I gained many interesting ideas that I can use in my own classrooms. In the lessons there was the issue of planning and difficulty in timing. Many of the presentations became an overview of the lesson instead of the lesson itself. This was problematic. Amanda and I were able to teach part of our lesson but we ran out of time and were unable to have the class start the project. Twenty minutes is sometimes shorter than you think. ** First Presentation Amanda Senack and I presented our lesson on Great Canadians. Lesson plan and all materials used can be found here: Great Canadians Wikispace.
 * Reading**: Leading and Learning With Technology
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Second Presentation Shannon and Graham presented a lesson on poetry imagery.

Third Presentation Lily and Luca presented a lesson involving Prezi.

Fourth Presentation Allison and Jesse introduced the class to gizmos at explore elearning.

Fifth Presentation Matt and Lisa did a lesson on earth and space and talked about the program Celestia. Also showed us Nasa's virtual field trip. Then learned about Solarium from Bruce.

Sixth Presentation Justin and Patrick introduced us to a lesson on gospel values. Introduced us to biblegateway.com and talked about how to use moviemaker with this lesson. http://jaetech.wikispaces.com/Week+6


 * Other**

OERB: OCDSBteacher. This is an interesting site that offers teaching resources for the classroom. One that I found which interested me was a virtual tour for teaching History through Art. I will definitely use this site in the future. Oerbt. Teaching History Through Art: Virtual tour. []

OSAPAC: Can downlaod software for teachers once they have contacted their board and asked for the password.

Creative Commons. YouTube videos are illegal to show in classrooms. Content Filtering. Block url: such as youtube. Keyword block. Blacklist: sites are automatically blocked: ex. playboy. How else can you filter? Look at jpegs and see how many pixels of skintone. Block gaming: basically keywords. Unfortunate because a lot of good games are blocked. We block games because kids spend too much time on them. The same goes for MSN and facebook. Proxy: A third website that serves as an intermediary to go look for what you want. U89: Great firewall of China. Worked on getting proxies to get around it. Almost like drugging at the Olympics. How do you keep ahead of them. No matter what happens the teacher is always responsible. Teacher needs to know what students are looking at on their laptops.