Evaluations of Web Resources (CED0520) - Wk 2

Wow, what a full week. I've been trying to keep up with all of the end of year issues at school as well as with class and I found myself procrastinating until the last day. Oops! Unfortunately I just set up my Google Alerts today and so I will not have much to say about how they've been working for at least a few days, so check back for more on that later.
As far as the rest of the material this week, I honestly felt that we were stepping back and covering some of the same material we touched on earlier in the program when I looked at the assignments. After actually completing them, I can say that although some of the material overlaps a bit, it really isn't redundant. With each activity I learned something new or created something that I can use tomorrow in my classroom or found new lessons that correlate with items I already teach.
The piece on search engines gave me a better understanding of how the crawlers and spiders work, the differences between engines, databases, directories etc., and methods other than Boolean logic to narrow and refine my searches (ie field searches). When investigating the Wikipedia debate, I resolved my own position on the subject as I was reading the perspective of other professionals in the field of education. In addition, I was also reminded that teachers don't only have to teach students, but we have to teach one another - I think the line I liked best from the blog was something to the effect of "allowing teachers to make lemonade from the lemons". Oftentimes, teachers are the hardest to teach something new to as the paradigm shifts from teachers as the givers (and keepers) of knowledge to the facilitators to help students to develop knowledge. The evaluation of web resources and using Noodle Tools both afforded me the opportunity to create and find new lessons and activities that can be supplemented into my classroom in the next few weeks and the next school year.