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Lesson Ideas
--Students could pick a location and find the quickest route to get there.
--Students could use the Pythagorean theorem to find the shortest distance between two locations.
--Teachers could give students a particular radius or diameter around a given location, and students could list all the places they could go within that radius or diameter.
--Students could estimate distances using a scale.
--Students could locate the midpoints between two locations.
--This can be connected to latitude and longitude lines.

Reflection #6 Hotlinks

Blogs in Education
http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/
This website is a good resource for teachers who want to figure out how to use blogs in their classroom. The website is broken down into purposes/uses for blogs, articles about blogging, examples of blogs, blog writing tools, aggregators, and tools for advanced blogging. The purpose of this website should be for reference both for new and advanced blogers.

Free Blogs for Education Profession
http://edublogs.org/
This website is a place where anyone in the education field can sigh up for a free blog. Both students and educators can utilize this site. They even have seperate links for K - 12 students, university students and english language students. Further exporation lead to the discovery of a discussion forum. This is a place where blog subscribers

Cool Tools: Blogging
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec570/cooltools/blogging.html
This website is a lesson on blogs. It teaches teachers about blogs and why they would be useful to use in the classroom. This website also gives links to examples and links to keep exploring the subject of blogs

Reflection 6: Hotlinks

Site 1
http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/
This site is to help teachers get started if they have an interest in blogging with their students. The site gives some articles on blogging, sample blogs, and some blog writing tools. The site also offers some insight as to why teachers and students should blog, as well as instructional tools for students who are just getting started on their blog. One thing that is special about this site is that it gives students examples of blogs that are specified to a particular subject. This will allow students to view blogging as an educational resource.
(Standards: Basic Operations and Concepts, Technology Productivity Tools, and Technology Research Tools)

Site 2
http://www.actionmath.com/blog/MathPlayground.html
This site is an actual blog spot but it is geered towards simple problem-solving tasks that are posed on the blog. This will come in handy for students who are interested in posing tasks through on their blog. This site gives examples of how tasks can be worded so that a more productive response is given.
(Standards: Technology Communication Tools and Technology Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Tools)

Site 3
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial037print.shtml
This site is set up like a blogging tutorial for the students. It gives them an overview of what blogging is and how it can be useful to their education. The site also offers example blogs that students can refer to, as well as things students should watch out for while creating and editing their blogs. I liked this website because it gives students a view of how blogging can increase their communication in the classroom with their teachers and peers.
(Standards: Technology Productivity Tools and Technology Communications Tools)

Reflection #5 -- Hotlinks

Edublogs.org -- Blog creation site for educators and students
This site allows you to set up your own blog for your classroom (if you're a teacher) or as a student. As some of its features it has spam protection and you can add multiple pages to your website, or upgrade to Premium for even more. The best part of this site is that it was built by educators for educators and have committed themselves to helping other teachers at all levels integrate blogging into their classrooms.
http://edublogs.org/

Answers.com -- Blogs for educators
This site is a compilation of blogs created by educators or people dedicated to research in education and technology. They even have blogs interating subject areas, including a math one! Woo-hoo! :-)
http://www.teachers.answers.com/main/teachers_weblogs.jsp

Weblogg-ed.com -- The read/write web in the classroom
This site has a long list of sample blogs and articles on how you can integrate blogging and other technology into your classroom. All these can be found in the right-hand column under "Categories."
http://weblogg-ed.com/