Chapter 7

Chapter 7 is all about something that i'm sure all of us use everyday, The internet. The chapter goes over many different aspects of internet. One thing that i'm sure we all use everyday is e-mail. We use it in this class to get our assignments to Judy and is something we all know how to use. It also talks about ISPs which are internet service providers. ISPs include things like e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging and even internet access and browsers like internet explorer or mozilla firefox. It also goes on to talk about using electronic mail in teaching and learning and that is something that we do in this class. We use assignment transmisson which are assigned activites that are emailed to the teacher. Later on in the chapter it talks about creating and evaluating web sites. It gives you an easy to read and understand website evaluating rubic. It gives you all of the different categories and descriptions of what the different scores would be. This made it easier for me to understand how to grade the websites and what was good and bad.

Chapter 7

Chapter 7 is all about the internet and the world wide web. It talks about modems. How you can connect through satellite equipment, external modem, and a DSL modem. It talks about internet based communications like e-mail, chat rooms. It tells you how to understand e-mails. Also using e-mail in teaching and learning. Like for assignments, class discussions, communication student to student, or teacher to student. It discusses mailing list, and a FTP. Which is a File Transfer protocol a method used for transferring files. It talks about creating and evaluating websites. Reading this chapter was basically a review for me. I know how to e-mail. and communicate through e-mail. I understand and have created a website before and went through a evaluation on a website. So while reading this chapter it basically was a review for me, about the internet and using e-mail for communication and transferring files. 

CHAPTER 5

Chapter 5 discusses many different types of software and how to incorporate them effectively into the classroom. The first two types of software that the chapter addresses are administrative and academic software. Both types of software are designed to make the teachers job easier. In the chapter it also reminds that the ISTE's NETS emphasize the importance of being able to use software efficiently. It also adresses Productivity software which is used most by both students and teachers. Productivity software includes programs that we use everyday such as microsoft word which would be an example of word processing software. Productivity software also includes electronic spreadsheets, database management systems, and presentation software. The chapter goes on to talk about portfolio assessment software and evaluating and selecting the right management software. It gives a rubic to help you grade and evaluate the management software.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 talks about administrative software and the ways it can be used in the classroom. The main topic of this chapter is productivity software. Productivity software includes word processing, elecronic spreadsheets, database management systens, and presentation software. Before reading this chapter I had a good idea of how word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software could be used by teachers, but I didn't understand how data bases could be used within the classroom. After reading this chapter I learned that a data base is basicly used to get organized both in teaching and professional task.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 was about understanding software. A administrative software that is software that assits an educator. It also mentions academic software, software that assits both educators and learns in teaching and learning the process itself. Chapter 5 basically covers the different software types that you can use in the classroom. Such as word processing, electronic spreadsheets, database management systems, and presentation software. It talks about how you can print your document, and save what you have done. Its also shows how you can break down a presentation, with the slides, graphics, multimedia, hyperlinks, and printing options.

Chapter 7

Chapter seven was all about one of my favorite things, the internet. Throughout most of my life, I have had access to technology and the internet and just took for granted that both things would work. Before reading this chapter, I suppose that I never really thought about what exactly the internet is. The book said that the internet is "made up of millions of individual machines and networks that have agreed to connect, provide resources to each other, and share data." To me, this is kind of like a bunch of people in a group working on a research paper. Everyone agrees to get along and share what they come across.

The rest of this chapter was about the different ways an individual can receive the internet such as DSLs and Cable Modems.

Chapter 5`

Chapter five was all about software and other tools that help professionals accomplish their given tasks more efficiently and more accurately. This would be defined as productivity software. This particular chapter happened to focus on more common tools such as Microsoft word, excel, publisher, access, etc. The book states that word-processing software is "the most commonly used computer application". Programs such as word-processing software have almost entirely replaced older technology such as the typewriter. The advantage to using word-processing software instead of a typewriter is that you can store and manipulate your data until you are finished working. With a typewriter you would have to be very careful not to make an error because you can not manipulate what you do as you do it.