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Thursday, December 9, 2010

The digital divide

i just finished reading the digital divide and wow i never new how "technologically" segregated the American education system is.  Theres a saying "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer" its the same concept when it comes to having access to technology.  The poorer students have less access to computers in their schools meanwhile, the wealthier students not only have access to computers at school, but at home as well.  This divide seems to be getting wider and wider.  Americans need to really wake up and do something about this issue before its too late.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

water on the moon

this is probably the most interesting and fascinating discoveries, they actually found water inside the moon.  according to researchers there is enough water in the moon for a shallow bath.  all this sound good but there seems to be a problem with this water... its has a high concentration of magnesium.  where there is water theres life so there maybe a possibility for life on the moon.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Databases

databases are a collection of information from all over the world for all different topics.  The use of databases is very common in the scientific community. Since I am a Earth Science teacher the most useful program that has a geographic database is Google Earth. It is very useful when locating any place on earth and if you want to show students geographic areas of certain areas.  It provides a great visual!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

My Science Web site

Today we learned how to design our own webpages using kompozer. This program is very helpful it bascially converts everything into html for you, so you dont have to memorize all those html codes.  This kompozer stuff is addictive i just want to stay on kompozer and keep kompozin my web page!!!

Thursday, September 30, 2010

using digital sounds in class

using digital sounds makes teaching and learning very exciting and fun. with the program audacity you can edit any audio files and do all sorts of cool stuff! check out audacity its free to download.