August 16, 2010

Today in my EDU 3040 class We were to read chapter 8 in our book. This chapter was about Security Issues, Ethics, and Emerging Technologies in Education. We had our daily quiz #6 over chapter 8.

Our classroom activities for today were:

Computer security: Risks and Safeguards

Computer Viruses

Virus Detection and Removal

Unauthorized Access and Use

Hardware Theft and Vandalism

Ethics and the Information Age

Parental Controls

Educational Controls

Other things that we looked at in class were sample teacher websites for classroom use.  My favorite sites were:

• Schleehauf's Investigations: http://schleehauf.weebly.com/

• Mrs. Trela: http://teacherweb.com/HI/KahaluuElementary/Trela/apt2.aspx

Both of these sites had good information in them. Both of these sites were very much related to the individual teacher’s classroom.

There were also some websites that I didn't like quite as well:


• http://teacherweb.com/FL/PineViewSchoolfortheGifted/Bradly
• http://teacherweb.com/LA/JHMS/JBUSH


These sites were extremely “busy” looking because there was so much information included on the site that it was confusing to look at.

Some of the links that we used in class were:
• Copyrights and Copying Wrongs file - http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
• Google Site Tutorial # 1 file - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1B_q_EiVHI
• Google Site Tutorial # 2 file - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW3OElLssgE
• Copyright 101 for Teachers file - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzlry1c76nc
• Copyright Law file - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jmapccuK0&feature=related