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To Wikipedia or not to Wikipedia? That is the question

I do not ever use Wikipedia. I do not trust what I read or see on that research tool (if you would call it that). My freshmen year at South I was in a composition class where you had to write papers. I was using Google to search on my topic and one link was to Wikipedia. I clicked on it and the site said that the item I was searching on did not even exist. Just to let you know I was doing my paper on the history of the White House. So as you can see that was a very ridiculous statement. I have had others tell me that they have found very great facts on Wikipedia but I would rather not take that chance. The Internet is a very huge data base and I am sure I can find somewhere on it to find good, reliable, information and not have to bother with Wikipedia.

Fisch's Blog for May 16th 2007

I scanned through some of her blogs and was looking for something that caught my eye. One did. This blog was a youtube video on customer service. This man had bought an HP computer with an extended warranty and needed some help. The computer had recently went to service at HP and when it was returned some of the software he needed was not with the computer so he called to see about getting new disks. This seems like an easy fix, no major brain power is needed to help this guy. So a phone call that should have took two minutes to fix took over six and the man was hung up on. It was a horrible customer service experience that could seriously damage any possibility of that man doing business with HP again. The reason I was compelled to write about this blog is I work in customer service myself. Daily I meet people who just need simple help and if you handle it the right way usually there are no problems. I also have had to call companies such as HP and have poor service myself. It is frustrating when you know its just a simple problem and tech support wants to ask you everything from the model number to how many buttons is on the front of the tower. So I suggest if anyone ever has any problems with tech support call the company back and make a complaint or possibly go to their website where there is usually a survey you can take.

Fisch Blog

To say that I am impressed with her blog would be an understatement. Not only was her blog well organized but she uses the blog for what it is meant for, speaking her mind. As a future educator I found her list of standards to be reasonable. My mother is a teacher in a high school but has not been teaching but for three years. While she was doing her student teaching she was paired with a teacher who was not very tech savvy. This teacher would run copies off of work and hand them to students. This high school was equipped with class sets of laptops and projectors to show videos and pictures to the students but were never used. Now that my mother is a teacher and has her own class she uses all the equipment that is available. The sad thing is, most the teachers at that high school have been teaching for twenty years and are very out dated when it comes to classroom advances. I agree with Fisch's blog, teachers should be updated just as you have to update software with a computer.

International Blogging

The school I read about was a small school in Portugal. Teachers were encouraged to set up blogs for students to use in the class room. At the end of the experience, observations confirmed that the students and teachers both enjoyed the experience with the using blogs in the classroom. The students felt both completed and enriched. Also while using blogs teachers also noticed significant differences between the students that will help for future design of curricula in Portugal. I feel that the use of blogs in the class room with over all benefit the students individually and as a whole.

Blogs in the Classroom

After doing some research on teachers using blogs in the classroom I discovered they are actually very popular. You would think that it was mainly high school classes that partake in the blogging comunity, but actually there were many elementary classses as well. For example a teacher in Fredrick County, MD took her class on a field trip to an indian reservation. The class was so excited about what they saw she decided to start an online blog for her class. On the web they students were able to talk about what they liked best and share information that other students may not know. Not only was the blog usefull for information but the teacher noticed that the students who were usually more quite in class came alive in the online blogs. She got to see a more indepth look at her students personality. Over all it was a classroom success.