Journal 1

Shifflet, R (2008). Extreme makeover:updating class activities for the 21st century.
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Mader, J (2008, July). Blogging Right Along. Retrieved August 5, 2008, Web site: http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/pdf2html.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjheil65.googlepages.com%2FJournal1.pdf&images=yes

This article seeks to expose the potential of Web-based applications for use in the classroom. It explores the possibilities of several different examples, discusses how they work, and the benefits of using such applications. For example, Shifflet discusses Collaborative Writing Tools, Social Book-marking, Blogs, and more. A major benefit of these Web-based applications it the fact that they are social. This allows collaboration from both teachers and students in order to enrich the applications being constructed. The article concludes with a discussion of the possible negative aspects of using such applications, but argues that the positive aspects greatly outweigh the negative ones.
The second article discusses the importance of Blogs in the classroom setting. The author uses the example of students a science class and the benefits students and teacher experience, including: sources of information, time line of progress of class, a view of who is participating in certain activities, and much more.

1. Out of the Web-based applications presented in the Shifflet’s article, which one would
most easily lend itself to use in a high school mathematics classroom?
This question would probably yield different answers from different people, but I would think that Social Book-marking would most likely fit into a mathematics classroom. There are a myriad of mathematics web sites that are extremely useful for many different uses. Social Book-marking could be used for both students and teachers in order to complete projects, homework, study, find formulas, and much more.

2. Could a blogging site be used for any classroom setting, such as art or music, or are they geared more toward a technical class only?
A blogging site can be used for any classroom setting. For example, sources that are made available by the blog need not necessarily be technical in nature. The sources could that of artistic or creative in nature.