Accessing+Information

The first week of our wonderful EDU 290 class we learned about the importance of being able to access information. This is important because there is a lot of stuff on the internet that is useless and will not benefit us with what we are doing. We learned how to evaluate said information so that we know what we are using or presenting will benefit our students.

During week two of this spectacular class we learned the laws of copywriting and about plagiarism. This is very important beacuse as teachers we need to hold good morals and we need to be able to practice the ethics of good people. Being teachers we are held to a high standard and we want to be viewed in a good law abiding light. We also want our students to know to sight their work because they can't take credit for what others have created for them to use.

The third week of this educational class we went over website evaluations and over RSS. This goes hand in hand with the first week because not only did we access this information but we learned how to filter the good from the bad. We learned to take the information that was up to date, correct, and useful and make sure that that was the only kind of information we shared with our students. With the RSS we found a wonderous way to find information that gets updated frequently in a non-time consuming way!

The last week of this intense unit we tackled spread sheets and data bases using excel and google docs. We found a way to take surveys and put together the information in a readable form that is easy to understand and view. We learned how to make graphs to display the information in a colorful way. We made easy to make and easy to use spread sheets that helped organize our abundance of information we got through our survey.