Week 5

Out of the six NETS standards that are listed in the book, it seemed like the students did the first five standards.  Those standards are basic operations and concepts, social, ethical, and human issues, technology productivity tools, technology communications tools, and technology research tools. 

The students had the basic operations and concepts of using the laptops when the teacher was asking them where to go on the computers.  They had a positive attitude towards the laptops even when some of the laptops were not able to connect to the internet.  Using the internet, Yahoo, and KidPix showed enhanced learning and promoted creativity for standard number three.  Standard four was displayed when the students were using KidPix to create a slide show for technology night for the parents.  Finally, the students collecting information from the weather page on Yahoo showed standard five.

I think what I would do differently would put the teacher’s laptop in the back of the classroom so I can keep an eye on all the students and not turn my back on them whenever I look at the projected screen.  Also making sure that every laptop has internet before class started would be something that I would have done differently.  With every laptop having internet, the productivity of the student would increase.

Week 3 Blog

First I would like to say that the presentation by Mr. Lindsay what excellent. Some of the things that he talked about, I never knew or thought about. He put a lot of the information into a context which made it a lot easier to understand. Also his pictures of the dolls helped visualize what he was talking about.


The one thing that I have never heard about ever was when he started to talk about the internet sites that will sell a student a paper. It has never occurred to me that there might be people out there trying to sell papers on different topics. While I might think that buying a paper from such websites is really pointless, it seems like from what Mr. Lindsay said, there are people out there desperate enough to go and buy those papers.

Most of the rest that Mr. Lindsay talked about, I knew to some degree. I have even seen how it would affect me. I currently work at a bank and while I have never done it, there was a message sent out by one of the vice presidents warning us to be careful on what we post on Facebook because other employees might read it and get offended. Also, after watching the video I went and looked at my privacy settings on Facebook because Mr. Lindsay did scare me a little on how stalkers and other creepy people might use it.