Blog 3

Because I would like to teach Kindergarten, I would want to create a lesson aimed at learning goals for my young students. I might create a powerpoint using Microsoft Powerpoint that would allow me to teach a science lesson about the concept, sink or float. By inserting pictures, ClipArt, and videos of objects sinking and floating, the powerpoint would allow my students to see examples and get an understanding of why some objects sink while others float.

I found a website that violated a few of the rules we learned in Chapter 6. The website for Cafe International, http://www.cafeintl.net/ is very complicated and hard to navigate, violating rule 12 and the text is in all caps, against rule 9. When you move your mouse, the objects on the page move also. This is interesting at first but soon becomes annoying when you actually want to get closer to the text and read it levelly.

I don’t have much experience with copyright and fair use of materials in an educational environment. I know that if a material says you can use for educational distribution, you don’t need permission and can copy and distribute materials to your students. I’m not sure about distributing materials from textbooks and novels. As a teacher, I would create materials such as wordsearches or games and distribute them to my students and colleagues. If my student created something that I saw a need to copy, I would ask their permission and do accordingly.