UEN

This week in class we are learning how to set up our own UEN site.  We will be setting up a public domain and a personal domain.  This is a site were my students can go to look up our class information, rules, procedures, etc.  They will also be able to look at my personal site and see who I am, what I like to do, and other things.  I really like this idea, giving the students access to info about the class and me on the website.  Having a site like this will make me much more up to date on technology, especially if I have links they can click on to get help from other sites.  In a very small way it will be like a search engine, but for my class specifically.  It would be pretty awesome if I had a class that had a website that had different links on it that would help me in the class.  I have classes that have websites, which is very helpful in and of itself.  Students in my classes will be able to access the information more easily, like they can anything on the internet.  For many students this will help them remember thing and get to know me better.  If I give them the same info in class on a sheet of paper, many of them will lose it and will forget it.  On the site I can have different resources for my students that will help them do their homework.  I can make it a great website or an okay one.  It wouldn't take much work though to make it a great tool for my students.  Hopefully having a site like this will help my students.  Just like with technology I will need to keep my website up to date.

Video-"The New Math"
This video was pretty hilarious.  It was kind of crazy at the same time.  When I was taught math we were just told to do it and not really why we were doing it.  Now days kids want to know why they are doing it and maybe other things.  Is there a right answer to every question, or if you can show a logical way to do it then it is true.  There is another video that is fun to watch that is somewhat similar.  It is Abbott and Costello.  The guys answer on this makes sense, doesn't it?