Brittany Cleere Ch. 6 and Inspiration Response

The Inspiration Program could be beneficial to any student who needs ideas on how to put together research papers or any written essay. My chosen field to teach is Biology, and although students don't tend to write an entirely large amount of essays in Biology, sometimes they might be required to write reserach papers and this program I find essential for mastering a good research paper. It gives the student ideas on what proper tools to use in the classroom.

The Science section of the TAKS test requires students to be fimiliar with graphs, maps, and charts so I think that online concept maps would be a good thing for them to get familiar with. Concept maps provide learners with a tool used for helping students to relate given objects and builds mental pictures. It is a process of identifying important concepts, arranging those concepts, identifying relationships among those concepts, and labeling the nature of the relationships among those concepts. This system would be very beneficial to my future students in order to excell on the TAKS. By the use of blogs, students can chat with their peers and help eachother revise their writing, if needed. Time is very limited in the classroom, and kids love the computer so why not let them help eachother through the use of blogs.


Brittany Cleere
ETEC 424-02