Assignment #6

I looked at Lyndsey's blog from our class who is also studying to be a social science teacher and she had a great website that I will have to use with my future class:
http://nicholasacademy.com/socialstudies.html
It has free downloads with all topics under the category of social science. 
Here is a geography software download that I came across online. Unfortunately, I am unskilled when it comes to actually downloading software...
http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/ppc/geography-software.htm?id=45229&gclid=CJ79yKKLj6ICFRYBiQod92SRbg
It's a free download and it mainly features maps and would be useful as my students locate where every country in the world is located while creating charts and graphs of data about specific regions and countries.
http://www.davidrm.com is an online journal. I could have my students use this electronic journal as they reflect on assignments. They could even do like a travel journal (since I may be teaching geography) and display the 5 Themes of geography from their traveled location. This could be a fun and easy way to apply what they've learned and post online. They could also use http://www.inalbum.com/ to create slideshows, storyboards, and movies. The downside is that it costs 29.95 for the software. I did find a website for teachers to buy academic software at discounted prices. Click here. It could come in handy.

A free replacement for Photoshop is called Gimp. This could be a fun tool for projects. Click here if you want to see other free replacements for computer software.

Safety on the internet was a sobering class discussion. I'm sure everyone had a personal experience about family members struggling with content on the computer; I sure have! It's not a pretty sight, and no one needs to go through that. I think it should be taught in all schools that the Internet is a great blessing but only if you use it correctly. Warning kids and teenagers of the danger that risky sites have could safe them from heartache; then again, we all have our agency. I'm grateful that we were about to talk more about that and elaborate on the subject.