Internet Resources

Most of my experience with Internet resources have come strictly from google or the school library, however now I have learned that there are many other search engines out there to be used for this assignment and for my future classroom. For my future students I would love to incorporate chat as much as possible by making it an easy way to communicate with each other while they are at home or while they are in class and can't communicate because the classroom needs to be quite. The main reason why is because I think that while the students are doing group projects chat is an easy way to communicate without having to talk and the students can receive quick responses. Same with emails however you cant get a responses nearly as quickly. With the emails we learned about some links like ePals that would be useful when trying to connect with other classes, schools, or students across the country. This is great and should be used to make a broader more diverse type of technological conversation that students can get. Then by having the students reflect on the experience while following along with the overall assignment, I feel it would be a great use of a great resource. There are some other resources I have learned about but more along the lines of search engines like Awesome Library that give really good results appropriate for young students. These search engines, image, video, and blog resources can all be used for projects or research for information on topics learned throughout the year. My unit plan is very science oriented so the resources online would be beneficial in supplying some good information. Finally, the internet resources I found that can be found and be used as visuals throughout the lesson or student presentations.
Website citations are the internet resources.