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=Alex Rock=

toc =Contacts= arrock@ku.edu (785)218-1125

=Technology Experience= Moderate

=Background= Hello, my name is Alex Randall Rock. I currently am a Junior at the University of Kansas studying Chemistry, and Secondary Education. My future education goals include Law School, but once finished I want to spend my time within the realm of education. Where that is I currently do not know, but I am not concerned due to having plenty of time to make up my mind.

=Horror Story=

Due to bad luck, or lack of knowledge, I lost all of the numbers in my cell phone.

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Web Exemplars
Using the search engine of your choice find 2 exemplar websites on the explorer Columbus (age appropriate for the level of student you will be teaching). One website should be great, the other horrible.

Post these websites below. Include a 1-2 short paragraphs for each site explaining why the site is great/horrible. Write up a description of the process you used to find these sites. Point out tools or tactics which make the search easier or more difficult. Present findings to Class. http://www.columbusnavigation.com/ I found this site by Googling Christopher Columbus. The website titled __The Columbus Navigation Homepage__ is a great resource to help educate student on the history of Christopher Columbus. Within the site students are able to easily maneuver throughout the website, by clicking on the different tabs directing students to the different areas of Columbus's legacy. This website did a good job of highlighting his positive accomplishments, and the negative effects of his travel on others.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/columbus.htm I found this site by Googling Christopher Columbus. This page lacks the credibility needed to be an academic source. Unfortunately, there is not enough information to adequately portray a sufficient account on the history of Christopher Columbus. The visual appearance of the website does not aide in the understanding, user friendliness, or educating for users. I would not use this website to educate my students on the legacy of Christopher Columbus.

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ladraxler wiki

= Communities Project =  Facebook: For one of my class assignments, Personify an Element, I would assign each student a different element to give humanistic characteristics to better learn about the different elements. This is a way that I would be able to grasp student’s attention with a community tool that so many students are already familiar with. My students would then have the opportunity to create a profile for their element and the class would then “facebook friend” the other elements of the periodic table. I believe this is a great interactive way for my students to better grasp knowledge of the different kinds of elements. An example is posted below. [|facebook] Youtube: Is a great tool that allows people to post their videos on the world wide web to share with the entire enternet community. This often times is used for entertainement value; however, it can also be incorporated as a strong educational tool. I believe that often times it is useful to have a visual image that plants a spark of interest before exploring a subject. What I would use youtTube for in my classroom is to try to make connects from the video to the subject matter being taught. [|youtube] Youtube: One of my assignments goals is to educate my students on intermolecular attraction (attraction between molecules) which determines the state of the molecule. Youtube is an incredible tool for me to use in helping demonstrate examples of intermolecular attraction include hydrogen bonding, permanent dipole interaction, and induced dipole interaction. Fortunately, great videos that serve as examples for each of type of intermolecular attraction. Students will be allowed to visit youtube while being supervised to make sure that they are only watching the videos that have been assigned or related to the subject material. The hope of the assignment is that students develop a better understanding that gases have the weakest and solids have the greatest intermolecular attraction. The hydrogen bond is an intermolecular attraction responsible for the properties of water and many biological molecules. -  The following youtube video would be shown to demonstrate hydrogen bonding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHwul2IqwLw -  Students would then be asked to recreate this demonstration of hydrogen bonding in the lab. -  The following youtube video would be shown to demonstrate induced dipole interaction (instantaneous dipole, London forces, Van der Waals Forces. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsW8zctD7CM  -   After watching this video, explain what role induced dipole interaction had in creating this work of art.   -   The following youtube video would be shown to demonstrate permanent dipole interaction (dipole-dipole, Keesom interaction) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLZPKipDHns&NR=1  -   After watching this video, explain what role permanent dipole interaction had in the explosion.    The three different videos describe three different ways in which intermolecular attraction is exhibited. Each video is an example of hydrogen bonding, permanent dipole interaction, or induced dipole interaction. After watching each video a visual example of each intermolecular attraction specifies the differences between each. Then make observations on what kind of elements act together in order to form each of the different kinds of intermolecular attractions. This class project requires a lot of knowledge about the different elements, how they form compounds, and how they interact. Students will use their text book, and any other resources they feel that they need in order to better understand what is taking place with each of the intermolecular attractions.  =Media Project=

I created a powerpoint presentation for a beginning lecture for a chemistry class. The text in the slides are brief and conscience to assist student while following along. I used a simple text with black font, on a white background to not distract from the lecture. I believe that powerpoint can be a powerful tool if it is used as an outline for students to follow along. Likewise it can be a weak tool if it is only used for students to copy notes off the overhead.

