Blog 5

• This week I will be discussing information from chapter 2 of the textbook. There is many kinds od internet services used today in the world: Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks, and Home Networks. Through these there are other branches including wireless, broadband access. Another topic is the WWW sites used today which stands for World Wide Web and is a farely new aspect of the internet which consists on different hyperlinks built in to documents to link them to the internet making the WWW sites. Another topic is search techniques but today there is websites specifically for searching the internet such as google, aol search, etc. you just type in what you want to find at one of these websites and all the possibly results come up and you pick the closest to what you were looking for.
• I acquired new skills this week outside the classroom and inside throught the assignments and exercises given. This week I learned how to search the web for things I need to complete assignments. I had to do a web hunt to search for things I may have used in different lessons as a teacher. I also learned what sites were good to search for things and the different sub categories inside the sites to find them. This is important because I know what sites and how to search the web for things I may need in the future in lesson plans to teach.
• I discovered some new technology this week in the web hunt assignment. I did not realize there was sub categories on google to help you find picture, maps, etc. to give you a more specific search. This can come in hand great when Im teaching it will save me time and give me better results when I am looking for stuff online. I also learned how the internet works by reading chapter 2 in the book and how the WWW sites work.