Gardens of Time reflection

Gardens of Time

1. Interaction: You invite friends to be neighbor. By accepting and having neighbors you interact by visiting each other's gardens and leaving gifts. You can also interact by asking neighbors to send you material you may need to finish a quest on the game.
2. Origination: During the game you have to create a garden of objects retrieved from the different historical scenes you visit during the game.
3. Exploring: The game requires you to visit different scenes in history and discover objects that do not belong in those scenes. Though you are required to find these objects as fast as you can, you are asked to revisit these scenes over and over to find more and more objects. During this sequence of events you learn what objects are by name or sight and how they fit or do not fit in that scene.
4. Ordered Problems: The scenes of the game are at first easier to navigate but as you continue with the quests
and building your garden the quests become harder and require you to find more items in the same amount of time. This requires you to memorize what things are and where they are to accomplish the quest set before you.
5. Context: This game is based on historical places and events and during the game you learn about what an object is you may not have known and what it looks like. It also teaches you where these places were and what they were and why they might be significant.

Scratch Tutorial

Scratch Titanic

Double Entry Journal #7

Quote:
"It was not the most outlandish thing she might’ve said, given how little was known about learning disabilities in the early 1950s, and how little training a teacher" (Schultz 2011)

Response:

I chose this quote because until the mid to late 1970's there were no special education teachers, class rooms, or specifications. Learning Disabilities are students with average or above average intelligence that have a difficult time reading. Sadly some teacher still ignore the issue of learning disabilities or try to use that as an excuse to not help or get rid of "problem" children. I know its difficult having upwards to 32 children in a classroom but we have to make time to be the teacher our students need us to be.

References:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/with-dyslexia-words-failed-me-and-then-saved-me.html

Office of Special Programs Autism. (n.d.). West Virginia Department of Education. Retrieved March 9, 2012, from http://wvde.state.wv.us/osp/spl-osp.html. wvde.state.wv.us/osp/RtiImpGuide91906.DOC

Related Resource:

wvde.state.wv.us/osp/RtiImpGuide91906.DOC

I chose the West Virginia RTI guide  (Response To Intervention) because it is a program to combat this exact problem. RTI also called the 3tier system catches possible learning disabilities in the first grade and allows children to get the help they need to achieve their reading goals.

"The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA) provides school districts the opportunity to develop research-based procedures for determining whether a student has a specific learning disability.  Traditional identification procedures required a severe discrepancy between the student’s intellectual ability and academic achievement that was often not evidenced until second or third grade, well after the time that most children acquire beginning reading skills.  As a result, young struggling readers often have not received the timely and adequate reading instruction required to prevent lifelong reading difficulties" (RTIguide).

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Website Evaluation #2

http://www.americancatholic.org/news/stemcell/

WHO?

Has someone taken responsibility for the content of this Web site?
Yes the American Catholic Organization, written by Nancy Frazier O'Brien
Is information about the author or organization clearly stated?
Yes the organization is plastered all over the site

Are there any links to in-depth information about the author or organization?
The organization has an about us, contact and archive links

Can you contact the company or author through a real world postal address or phone number?
when you click on the link to the question or issues you have an address comes up all to the same place

Can you confirm that the company or author is a credible, authoritative source of information?

No they give no citation or background on the information given by the writer

Can you verify the authority of any of the site's content that is attributed to other sources?

This is just a regurgitated statement and their is no creditably to the information being that the original statement is a biased judgement not based on facts just opinion

WHAT?

Is the information biased in any way?
The information is very biased. It is a religious website so is only seeing the topic in a religious view point.

Does the site rely on loaded language or broad, unsubstantiated statements?
yes they use some language that is unclear as to what they are referring to

Is emotion used as a means of persuasion?
Yes they are trying to make the issue seem immoral and a form of murder

Does the site offer more than one viewpoint?
No it does not it is only about what they think and nothing else

Are there links to other or alternative viewpoints?No

Does the site's information seem thorough and well organized?
no

Does the site clearly state the topics that it intends to address?
It does  but in a biased way

Does it follow through on the information it has promised?
Yes, it gives links to a section based on just this kind of topic

Does the information seem complete and consistent?
No it is not complete but consistent in their opinion

Is the information well written and easy to understand?
No it is not well written and is rather jumbled

Does the Web site offer a list of further in-depth resources or links to such resources?
Not for further resources just more links to their option and beliefs

What's the copyright status of material found on the site?

It is Copyrighted 1996-2012

 WHY?

Can I get the information faster offline?

No for this type of information it would be faster online, but just not from this website

Does the online material I'm finding suit my needs?

No there are no facts, statistics, or credible information

Am I able to verify this information?

No because it is all based on option and not fact

Website Evaluation #1

http://allaboutexplorers.com/


WHO?

Has someone taken responsibility for the content of this Web site?
No it just restates the name of the website as the sponsor

Is information about the author or organization clearly stated?
The information about the "authors" is ridiculous and untrue

Are there any links to in-depth information about the author or organization?
There is an authors link with in-depth information that is all untrue

Can you contact the company or author through a real world postal address or phone number?
There is no contact information and all information about authors is bogus

Can you confirm that the company or author is a credible, authoritative source of information?
You can not confirm that any of the information is credible for the "authors" seeing as one of them is sited as being a DDS which is a dentist but works as a custodian at a beach side community college in Wyoming.

Can you verify the authority of any of the site's content that is attributed to other sources?
There are no sources and all none of the links work


WHERE?

Is it important that the information you're looking for be absolutely current?
The only dates are 2006-2012 but no dates of updates or revisions

Is a reference date provided to show when the material was put online, or when it was last updated?
There are no dates for updates or creation

Do the links work?
There are links but none of them work and say site not found





WHY? 


Can I get the information faster offline?
If you can find a book explorers you can definitely find better, full, more accurate content.

Does the online material I'm finding suit my needs?
No it did not because it was full of crazy information that made no sense

Am I able to verify this information?
Yes and no since the information was all false using any other website would show you the true facts.

Emmett Till

This article about the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, has been written in a clear organized way. It has all needed citations and footnotes adding to it's creditably. It was revised March 4, 2012. This article relays all facts and speculations associated with this story representing a unbiased neutral tone.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

This article or section has multiple issues.	No
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.	No
The neutrality of this article is disputed.	No
The factual accuracy of this article is disputed.	No
This needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone or spelling.	No
This may contain material not appropriate for an encyclopedia.	No
This article only describes one highly specialized aspect of its associated subject.	No
This article requires authentication or verification by an expert.	No
This article or section needs to be updated.	No
This article may not provide balanced geographical coverage on a region.	No
This is missing citations or needs footnotes.	No
This article does not cite any references or sources.	No