Blog #4

Chapter 4 also introduced different games that could be used either for education or just pure entertainment. The chapter brought me back to the days of the Oregon Trail! Man how I used to love that game!!! Chapter 5 then talked about how schools are assimilating the internet into everyday educational life and showed us TeacherWeb. It seems to be a good website because of it’s ease of use and helpfulness to students.

Google, the ever informative and increasingly world dominant search engine. It was inevitable that it showed up in our text, lol. I knew about the Google video application and I still personally prefer YouTube, just because of it’s more expansive and more accessible library. However, Google’s scholar function is amazing – I knew nothing about it before this class but I’ve used it several times while writing papers in order to locate various articles. It’s a powerful tool indeed! Thanks Google!!!

So, completely unrelated to this class… the new Matchbox Twenty CD comes out on October 2nd!!!! I’m so stoaked! I’ve been an avid fan since back in the 90’s when they first released Yourself or Someone Like You. It’s been a long time since they’ve put anything new out and I can’t wait for this new CD! It’s going to be amazing!!!