Le+Tran

user:lemt toc =Intro- Le Tran= Hi I'm Le! I prefer to be contacted by email. (lemt@ku.edu)

My hometown is Newton, KS. I have two sisters and one brother. I am currently a UEC major concentrating on kindergarten special education. I'm hoping to work in an inter-city school district, possibly Kansas City, KS in an early intervention program. I feel that this is the crucial age for children to learn and children with disabilities need to be provided with proper stimulation to develop to their fullest potential. I want to teach children how to be independent and utilize their resources to the max.

I have taken one semester of computer technology at the college level. I think technology is important in the classroom to teach children how to use them and to provide children with a variety of instructional tools. My horror story with technology occurred when I created a project that included animal recordings. The project was created the night before and when I went to click on the animal sounds an error message appeared. I was forced to create the animal sounds myself in order to complete my presenation. I would like to learn how to create a webpage in dreamweaver.

Web Exemplars
I chose to use google as my my search site. I selected the words "Columbus the explorer" to be put in the search engine because I needed it to be specific and focus on Columbus' life during his exploration. I received a very long list of sites and I focused my attention on sites that had the words teacher or edu in the title which is where I found my good website. I felt that websites with the word teachers would have sites that are focused towards kids and have ideas for teachers. I realized later that there wasn't a need to put the word "the" in the search engine because it was disregarded when google did the search. For my bad website I picked in the website's with title that did not specifically state it had information for teachers or about Columbus.

BAD! http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/classrooms/5th/schroeder/socialstudies/expwqresources.htm The site selected a blue background, but also used a blue as the text. It made the text very hard to read and differeniate between the different parts. They also had animated smilely next to some of the headings. The purpose of the smilely faces were unclear, it did not clarify the headings and it distracted me from the text. The same picture was used twice at the top of the page which seemed redundant to me. It doesn't reemphasize the topic of the page. There is a short biography under each heading that gives the teacher and students what the information the link includes. I have used this website before it I know that it is a secure website that provides accurate information for teachers and students. It also belongs to a big corporate company that would monitor and have regulations as to what is posted on the website. It is easy to nagivate around the website and the students would be able to use it on their own. The subsites provides lots of pictures of diagrams for the children to see visual images for them to learn from. It provides a information in the form of visuals and texts for the different type of learners.

GOOD! http://www.teachersfirst.com/holiday/columbus.cfm The colors used on the page accented each other. It made the text easy to read and the headings were different colors from the descriptions. I could browse through the site quickly picking out just the heading to see if the site would be useful or not. The target grade level were in bold so that teachers can select the ages they were looking for. The text were simple and had a few graphics that emphasized the topic of page. The links were connected to the heading which made it easy to naviagate through the different headings. There were not too many links to create confusion. The links connected to this page are not always there and it redirects the students to a whole new website instead of another page of the current website. It takes students to a variety of websites that may not all be secure and provide accurate information. This website may not be trust worthy because does indicate that it is copyrighted nor is there an author or where the information was obtained from.

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