Sunday, March 2, 2008

Teaching Students to Use the Internet as a Reseach Tool

Teaching Students to Use the Internet as a Research Tool

I remember when I got introduced to Internet research tool, it was like an open door to an infinity possibilities. My school’s assignments had a great improvement because of all the information I was able to collected and verified in a fast pace. I can see a student get crazy with the great help that Internet search engine can provide to them. This skill will definitely will motivate them, also could be an open mind experience. The student can develop a great critical thinking process when comes to select the material that he or she will use in their work. I love have the chance to teach all the potential that Internet can bring to their work. The infinity places that Internet can take you are incredible. All the news papers, periodicals, journals, magazines, reports, and etc… The way children are computer smart today, maybe they will be able to teach me, things I probably do not know, or take me to sites I don’t have any idea they exist. This can be a way to make a connection with my students, and both learn together.



Spreadsheet Tutorial


About spreadsheet, what I have to say is that I learned excel many years ago, and to be honest I never was able to use it. It is definitely an amazing tool that can facilitate a teacher’s life. I’m really looking forward make my knowledge about excel useful in the future. The possibilities are immense, and the efficacy is primordial to make this skill worth to know.
I used the Chart and the Pie future before in some of my past PowerPoint presentation to show some type of statistics, which is a great form to promote visual proportions about data, and also to promote comparison. The part of insert the data is very simple, only the formula section is a little more complicate, it is something I had to practice more often. The visual resources are great. The new excel has great futures when it comes to creativity. One could create a beautiful and rich spreadsheet, which can be an amazing advantage to this technical work.


The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”
-Sir John Lubbock, British Naturalist

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