Blog Post D

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This chapter covered information on different technology tools, searching the web, and internet information responses. This chapter really helped me come to more of an understanding of what types of technology are used for searching the internet and what information you can get by making those searches.

There were a few helpful resources that were listed in this chapter regarding the internet. Flickr, LibriVox, and Creative Commons were just a few that were listed. Flickr was explained as an online photo managing and sharing tool that many teachers enjoy using. This website allows teachers to add visual learning resources to their lesson plans. LibriVox is a website that shares free audio recordings of different published books. This would be very helpful to teachers if they wanted to do a read out loud in class with a audio recording playing in the background. Creative Commons was explained as a place online where photos and videos could be reached easily by teachers. This website is very helpful when dealing with being able to find copyright protection for authors so that the pictures and videos are more reliable.

While reading about search engines in this chapter, I actually found out what they really are. A search engine is a software program that uses networks of computers to access information from its databases. I learned about keywords and that they are words or phrases used by search engines to locate matching webpages or sources. When using certain key words thats match your subject, it's easier to find what you're looking for! Many search engines such as Bing, Ask, Dogpile, Duck Duck Go, and Webopedia were listed in this chapter along with their specialized use for each site.

Different internet information responses such as misinformation, malinformation, mess-up information, and mostly useless information were discussed in this chapter. Many managment and control strategies such as censorship, filtering software, and partitions were listed to help when dealing with false or poor information found on the web.

Overall, I really enjoyed Chapter 5 and I really would consider people who aren't too familiar with searching on the internet to read it.



Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.