As a teacher I do not see myself using blogs and twitter to teach my students, since I want to teach younger grades such as Kindergarten. If I were to teach or interact with say high school students though I could definitely see myself incorporating twitter into daily learning. During high school and now in college some of my teachers used twitter as a way to communicate and share helpful information or resources for that specific class. As a teacher I would use blogs and twitter for similar reasons. I would follow education blogs or people on twitter to help further my resources or information on new teaching techniques. I would allow my student’s parents to follow me if they wanted to see what I was incorporating into their children’s lessons. I would collaborate and follow other teachers to get an insight on what they are teaching and maybe even share lesson plans. On twitter I would follow education news to see what is happening in the education field and to be able to know what is going on.
I think helping students to realize at an early age what a good resource is from the internet is extremely important. As a teacher I would want my students to be educated on the types of resources they can use and also that they are able to spot a bad resource on the internet. In order to help them be able to do this I would incorporate assignments into my lesson plan that work with computers and research on the internet. I would help the students be able to identify what a good source is and how to use it for papers and homework. I could show them website evaluation forms that they could use while searching on the internet. I would expect the parents of my students to work with their children on finding good sources on the internet. I could send home homework that the parents can help the student with that requires the student to find several reliable resources and then explain why they are reliable. I think it is important for students to be able to do this so that when they get older they can find reliable sources and be able to cite them for research. It will also help with plagiarism because they can learn at an early age how to paraphrase and cite sources.
The Web Hunt assignment was very helpful because it taught me how to find proper websites to use for teaching or my own benefit. It required me to find the best source for each question and to evaluate why that was the best source. I also learned a lot on how to search something in google so that you can get the most relevant source. I learned many new search strategies that I can use for the future when I need the most reliable source. I liked the new search skills that I learned with this assignment. I did not like how broad the answers could be on the assignment. I feel like for each question there were several websites that could work and it was hard to find the one that I thought would be correct. I also feel like it was hard to justify why that website was chosen and why I chose the search strategy that I did. Next time I would use more search strategies rather than just googling the entire question. I feel like I will definitely use the search strategies in the future to find the most relevant websites. I will use this information when I am searching for lesson plans or information while I am teaching.
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Below is a video from YouTube that shows other helpful strategies to use while searching on Google.
stephaniesalkay 
I really liked the link you posted to visual helpful strategies on Google search. In my personal blog I posted a link to another blog that gives 12 tips to search Google like a pro. After last weeks web search it seemed appropriate to remind people of some of the important techniques of an effective Google search.
I also agree with you 100% that it is going to be very important for students to know the difference between a good and bad resource at a young age. I mentioned the exact same thing in my blog because as a young student once myself I know that i searched things and believed whatever I read, however the internet is full of trolls and fake websites, so that information could have been misleading if I wasn’t taught to tell the difference in websites at a young age. Luckily a lot of what is on the internet today is better or “verified” than it was back when the internet was just becoming a major platform.
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