Week 4

First off, I have to apologize for my "little" outburst last week. I pretty frustrated, but getting the video up wasn't the point of the assignment. The fact is, overall, I had a wonderful, very positive experienence using the UEN site along with other resource sites like eMedia and Thinkfinity, researching information on my chosen core topic. In fact, I've already used these sources for other classes and also in helping my own kids with assignments. So I apologize for the rant.

This week's assignment has been lots of fun exploring the Pioneer Online Library. I love having access to all the articles, videos and music. I don't know how much I would actually have the kids work with these site unless I was requiring them to do research themselves, but I would definately use this as a resource with my own research in preparation to teach something specific. Some of the sites seem to be a bit too "grown-up" for children in elementary school and as I've been surfing I've come across articles that I'd be concerned about my own children just happening upon without me there. Both my girls love travel, culture and animals so we really enjoyed the World Book Kids site to learn about new places, people and animals. I think in this digital age and the kids being so consumed by media it would be a great idea to use videos in your lessons and eMedia is full of educational experiences! I was fun to see how many videos I could find about Utah (my daughter is currently studying the land formations of Utah, lakes, rivers and geographical history).