Assignment #3

I did my project individually for two reasons. I am the only secondary ed major in the class and most of my websites are secondary based. everyone kind of all ready had a partner and i didn't mind working by myself on this project. I decided to start a google search engine to store my 30 websites. I choose to learn more about the custom search engine when we all had to pick one or two technologies to explore and then present to the class. I choose to work on Twitter and google search engine. I did not present my findings about my google search engine experience because I was really unsure about what i was doing and i didn't have enough information to be able to present it to the class.
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=015369964674125843226:8ry1gb-wjjy&hl=en
this is a link to my search engine. I have one search engine with all of the sites on the one. there is not a specific reason to the way i organized it. google does have an option to add subcategories to the search engine but I'm still in the process of figuring out more about it.
some sites that i found useful to me was
http://www.k12.wa.us/
I'm sure that I'm not the only one in the class to have put this site down. this is going to be the place where we find our EARL's and GLE'S. all of the state information that we need is on this site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
the Wiki site about the Industrial Revolution i found helpful because it is a great place to start researching your topic. It has some quick facts and even has resources. I will use this site to receive information about the industrial revolution
http://www.foxnews.com/
I will definitely use this site as a teacher. A news website is always important in social studies. it has current affairs, politics, weather, and the boys favorite...sports. this is a good way to stay connected with the world in a classroom. It puts history in perspective for students. I can "prove" what I'm talking about when i show them that it's on the news.
http://www.history.com/
this is the history channel. I think it is important to be able to find the same information that you are teaching and find it on an informative video. i don't plan on playing videos all the time but i think it is a good way to connect the material to the students especially if they can see for themselves that i'm not making up the informaiton. if they see it in a movie from the history channel it might be more real to them