Chapter 10 Bee Stings, Wooden Blocks, and Web Browsers by Tim C. Lauer
Elizabeth B
Innovative Approaches to Literacy Education
Chapter 10 Bee Stings, Wooden Blocks, and Web Browsers by Tim C. Lauer
Chapter 10 once again highlights the versatility of computers, a digital camera and the Internet. Tim gave an example of how a simple incident as a bee sting had spiraled into not just an Internet project but also attracted interested viewers including an expert in his field of study (Dr. Buchman) to the site. One wonderful characteristic of young children is that they are very fascinated by everything, hence it’s really easy to generate projects that stimulate them. Young children are so impressionable; therefore it should be really fun to work with them.
The “Bee Stings” project demonstrated how students were very committed to publish correct information to the public. As soon as they were informed that their diagnosis of the insect which stung Ted was incorrect, they went full stream ahead to change the information on their website. This show how powerful and influential the Internet is. We have often read or hear negative aspects of the Internet through the media that has really over shadowed the positive influence it may have on young minds.
Tim described in detail how he created and operated his school’s webpage at his previous school – Buckman Elementary. His webpage can be compared to an electrical bulletin board. This gave the parents, staff members and other interested viewers a chance to access relevant information about the school. This will also force the novice to be come computer/Internet literate.
Tim displayed numerous snap shots of his websites. His Buckman’s website had a Welcome, Class projects and Student Work, Bus Safety Rules, Alphabet book and Special Events such as Mother’s Day.
Tim reported that he investigated variety of web-based publishing tools which utilized little technical skills, e.g. weblogs. Weblogs are quite easy to use, until you come across some technicalities. For example, for a few days I was unable to log on to my weblog site. I was just recently connected back to it, but I have absolutely no idea what the problem was.
Tim reported that he created his website for the staff bulletin, in order to publish information of interest to the teaching staff. This type of system is quite familiar to me. At my previous job in the cooperate world, my organization used an Intranet system. The entire staff was connected to one main server. Staff members were able to communicate via computers either locally (member to member) or through the World Wide Web. All the meetings and important events were listed there.
Tim concluded “that teachers and educators seek a middle ground where technology is seen as a communication tool”.
Innovative Approaches to Literacy Education
Chapter 10 Bee Stings, Wooden Blocks, and Web Browsers by Tim C. Lauer
Chapter 10 once again highlights the versatility of computers, a digital camera and the Internet. Tim gave an example of how a simple incident as a bee sting had spiraled into not just an Internet project but also attracted interested viewers including an expert in his field of study (Dr. Buchman) to the site. One wonderful characteristic of young children is that they are very fascinated by everything, hence it’s really easy to generate projects that stimulate them. Young children are so impressionable; therefore it should be really fun to work with them.
The “Bee Stings” project demonstrated how students were very committed to publish correct information to the public. As soon as they were informed that their diagnosis of the insect which stung Ted was incorrect, they went full stream ahead to change the information on their website. This show how powerful and influential the Internet is. We have often read or hear negative aspects of the Internet through the media that has really over shadowed the positive influence it may have on young minds.
Tim described in detail how he created and operated his school’s webpage at his previous school – Buckman Elementary. His webpage can be compared to an electrical bulletin board. This gave the parents, staff members and other interested viewers a chance to access relevant information about the school. This will also force the novice to be come computer/Internet literate.
Tim displayed numerous snap shots of his websites. His Buckman’s website had a Welcome, Class projects and Student Work, Bus Safety Rules, Alphabet book and Special Events such as Mother’s Day.
Tim reported that he investigated variety of web-based publishing tools which utilized little technical skills, e.g. weblogs. Weblogs are quite easy to use, until you come across some technicalities. For example, for a few days I was unable to log on to my weblog site. I was just recently connected back to it, but I have absolutely no idea what the problem was.
Tim reported that he created his website for the staff bulletin, in order to publish information of interest to the teaching staff. This type of system is quite familiar to me. At my previous job in the cooperate world, my organization used an Intranet system. The entire staff was connected to one main server. Staff members were able to communicate via computers either locally (member to member) or through the World Wide Web. All the meetings and important events were listed there.
Tim concluded “that teachers and educators seek a middle ground where technology is seen as a communication tool”.
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