You know, a lot of people have told me not to use wikipedia.com. They say that while it can be helpful information, anyone can go on there and put whatever information they want so it usually is not reliable information. But I have to say, I have gotten a lot of greg information off of http://www.wikipedia.com. Although I would never list it as a source on a research paper, I think it is one of the most informative we sites out their. The information on this website is so easy to find that if you can use a computer, you can use wikipedia.
Wikipedia is what we call an open source material website because anyone can go on and edit it. I think teachers should use open source material as long as they make sure that the information is true using other closed sources. I certainly would contribute to them because it is always good to get knowledge out there no matter what website it is on. It is easy to check the validity of the materials using other websites or books. So as long as you are smart about using them, open source websites can be very helpful.
This week in our education technology class, I learned about some new tools that I could use to help me in Microsoft Word. Honestly, I thought that a few of the things we learned were not as useful to me as the other things we learned about Microsoft Word in the previous class. It was very hard to create the Word document I created because so many different parts were supposed to be in different columns and what not. I have never had a etcher send out a form like this and I cannot say that I will be likely to send out anything like this when I have my own classroom. I think I will end up sticking to a basic document without pictures or columns.