Lesson Planning and Teacher Chat Rooms :: Education Technology Internet Papers

Lesson Planning and Teacher Chat RoomsThe nature of research and discovery of a topic at one time used to be complicated. Going to the library, searching through piles of cards that were categorized and confusing in itself. Trying to find the conglomerate sections of material and checking out the material (books, periodicals, etc.) I just thought, thank God for the library course offered through the University How would I have ever found what I was looking for I could brows through the high school, junior high school library, but when I got to college and saw the different library buildings. I thought to myself, I hope I can adopt through this I did, but it took time and patience. Time and patience is one thing I always calculate to run short of. This is the reason why I am in favor of technology and most of all, the meshing. I believe the age of information has brought a lot of good things and bad things, but we wont go into this because that is another topic in itself. When I b egan using the Internet I did not find it as difficult as going to the library and learning how to search for a book or a required material. Again, I was exposed to the computer and the Internet through my college classes. Therefore, I did not find it so complex when I got a computer of my own to use at home. As a be of fact, the only problem that I had was waiting for the pages to load and for me to view the information. Throughout my life my only purpose for using the Internet was to communicate with friends through electronic mail and find information for my well being and amusement. It was not until later that I found it a little more difficult in using the Internet. I was asked to do research on the Internet in my English class, I thought, Piece of cake Yeah, right Web sites are not organized same books in a library and it would be impossible to catalog all of its sites, Branham says. I knew that, but what I didnt know was that it would not be as straightforward as I though t, looking for a resource that pertained to my topic specifically. Garcia 2 I was excited when I first heard about doing research on the Internet. I thought to myself, This is great Now, I really get to spend the time and get the kind of information that I have been wanting to get for a long time.