Entries "May 2006":
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
1. What did you like most about using blogs in the
classroom? (options: using computers, using the Internet, having your
own webpage, publishing to the world, reading comments, commenting on
others? entries, etc.)
My favorite thing was designing the weblogs. Using my favorite colors.
I also liked when we got to do whatever we wanted on the shared folder.
2. What did you like least about using blogs in the classroom?
(options: using computers, using the Internet, having your own webpage,
publishing to the world, reading comments, commenting on others?
entries, not as much freedom to write, etc.)
My least favorite part was that we didn't have any freedom to write.
Also we had rules of what we could put, like the smiley faces.
3. Do you feel like your writing improved this year (please be honest)? Did blogging have an effect on this?
My writing improved a little bit, I knew some of this stuff from last year though.
4. Do you have any suggestions for making blogging more enjoyable or making it more effective as a teaching tool?
I think you should let people do smiley faces and stuff like that.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2006
In the future, we might still have the Amazon Rain Forest and the
Yanomami people may be able to continue living there. The problems occured around the 1960's when people were encouraged to live in the rainforest. Trees were cut down for roads, sawmills, and
loggers. When gold was discovered in the Rain Forest, tons of miners
came into the area which brought back diseases that wiped out all the
villages. Such diseases are, Malaria, Influenza, and Whooping Cough.
Numerous people have tried to help and land has been set aside for
Yanomami people, but that does not protect them or the land. In 2004,
10,000 square miles of the Amazon Rain Forest were cut down! Even
outsiders just come in and cut down trees for nothing. Also, soil can't
can't sustain crops or cattle. Everything is just dying. Some loggers
come in and cut down valuable trees. For example, Mahogany which is
used for doors, guitars, and coffee tables. Correspondingly, 80% of
logging is illegal, timder is illegally logged and acquired!
The Rain Forest may be saved! The Brazilian government has been getting
serious about stopping it. Brazil is working with WWF and other
organizations to set up the Amazon Region Protected Area. It consists
of 80 reserves and parks. It will protect about 12% of Rain Forest.
They are trying to make sustainable land and give people living there a
stake in the process.
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