Big6

The Big6 was something new and suprisingly interesting to me. I learned a new technique for teaching. The first lesson I chose to critique was one on how to help students determine what shoes to wear to school. The process that went into it was pretty neat to see. Everyone remembers high school and how a big part of it was fitting in and being cool. Well a lesson on shoes and attire would be pretty beneficial to a lot of students. Since I couldn't find a Big6 activity on obesity I chose to do one on victimization. I read an interesting article that went along with the lesson that told a story of a woman who was a victim of a violent crime and her story. I thought this lesson was interesting and crucial to high school students because high school is a "hotzone" for bullying and violence. The Big6 lesson was very informational and I plan on using it again in the future.

Web Site Homepage

Last week in class we created our web site homepages. This was a new experience for me because I have never created a web site or web page before. I created a homepage that introduced what the web site is going to be about - obesity. I also made a link to a page that introduces me and talks a little about me. Creating this page was a good experience because it really helped me learn the ropes of creating a web page. I'm anxious to get into the latter stages of web site creating to see what all there is to it!

Evaluating Web Pages

This week in class I learned about web page evaluating. This process was pretty interesting because I didn't really know what all went into evaluating a web page. The types of things that are included in evaluating a web page are: its domain, credentials, author, is it linked, it is rated? A lot goes in to evaluating a web page and this week I learned about that. I was able to evaluate some of the web pages I am using for my web site project. I found out whether or not the websites I am using have credentials and if they are linked from other websites. After I looked at a lot of my websites I discovered that they have credentials and are very well documented. This website evaluating assignment turned out to be very useful for my project.