Post 2

This week I searched through a few different websites. One interesting website I found was under the link Voices from the Past. It offers oral history for students to look through. I love that you could use this to supplement your lecture or reading to make the lesson more interesting! It also shows students how to conduct interviews following legal and ethical guidelines, which would be a great help in History Fair Projects for primary sources!
Another great website I found gives you lists of calendars with events that happened on everyday of the week! I had a history teacher in high school who always put "This Day In History" events on her board and I always wondered where she got that information. With this website, I can put interesting stuff on the board for my classroom. Like did you know that on this day in 1896, Kansas, Missouri, and Texas staged a railroad, head-on train wreck as a publicity stunt?

I thought I knew how to do pretty much anything on Word, until we had our assignment this week. I really enjoyed learned how to do the different stuff for newsletters. I always had trouble with headings on Word, but I'm really glad that now I can put a banner up to make them look better!! And I love all the things I can do with pictures!!! I didn't know that I would be able to pove pictures all around the page, or make words go around them, or make words go over them just be double clicking the picture. By using these options on Word, I can change a boring newsletter to something my students and parents will want to read when they pick it up! They will probably be getting a lot of stuff sent home, and this will set mine apart!!

Of the "assistive technologies" the text offers, I found the most interesting to be "Closing the Gap." It offers teachers and students with special needs to use technology to enhance the learning experience. Their website offers discussion boards, newsletters, and product information to help teachers learn how to use these types of technologies more effectively. You can use the discussion boards to talk to other teachers and get more information that you can use in your classroom. It also gives you news headlines to see what is happening with special needs technology throughout the country. It talks about other districts and what they are approving for schools with technology! And a lot of new devises out that can help with special needs students.