Erica

5/11/10 I have created my wikispaces using my compass odyssey log in and password information.

The benefits of using the worldregions wikispaces for home and school assignments is that it gives you a chance to see how other people respond to questions and it gives you a chance to interact with other students in the class online. The challenge that i may face is finding time at home to go on the computer.

I liked how you used yourself as an example "Chris"

I agree with Erica in the fact that being able to interact with other students even from home is a benefit. Crystal

Erica i read your response on bena's thing, sorry to burst your bubble but someone already has, yes it is who you think it is "Chris"

5/12/10

I do understand the policy and wat they are telling us is that we should not do bad things and we should not abuse the website. We are all good students and we should follow the rules. We should not curse or say mean things about or to people on this website. I know that no one likes to get in trouble so we should all do the right thing and follow the policy.

When you are posting anythnig on a site, please keep in mind the story you heard today about Ryan. Ms Flood

May5,2010

I agree with you nobody likes to get in trouble ,but a lot of the time kids get in trouble any way.

"Ricky"

I agree with you! And you should tell Ricky that today is May 12th, not May 5th! hahaha! Benelisse

​ Nice job with your reflection but try to take the time read over so you don't have any spelling mistakes Matty C.

I agree with you,we should not say bad things about one another. "Chris'

Your right, NO ONE wants to get in trouble. "Colleen"

= It​s not only about getting in trouble, but its just not nice to be mean. By the way, good reflection. = = - Tim =

5/13/2010

The cultural influences that are present in my local area are a wide variety of restaurants: Chinese, Mexican, Indian, Japanese, Italian, and Vietnamese, to name a few. Some American values shared by different cultures are: freedom of speech, freedon of religion, the right to vote, opportunity of education, free enterprise, and the right to own a home, and the belief that all men (and women) are created equal.

Thats ok if it got deleted. great job on your reflection. "Chris"

5/19/10

Today President Obama met with the President of Mexico to talk about Arizona's immigration law. I agree with President Obama when he says that it is not fair that people in Arizona get stopped by police just because of the way they look. He thinks that there should be a better way to stop illegal immigrants from coming into our country and committing crimes. There are people from all over the world who live here as legal citizens and everybody wants to be kept safe. However i don't think that police should stop somebody and question them because of the way that they look. I think that would make innocent people feel bad about their race, and that is called racial profiling.

Very nice article. Racial discrimination is an issue that happens every day! Peace needs to begin with you!

I agree with how you said that it is not fair because of the way you look because every body should be treated fairly ."Ricky"

5/25/10

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and i'll understand"- Chinese proverb

I think the proverb means that getting the person involved in something is a better way of having them understand what you are trying to tell them. For example, if you tell someone how to drive a car, they will probably forget.If you show someone how to drive a car when you are driving it, they may remember because that person can think of wat you did, but may not know how to do it them selves. If you get someone involved in driving the car, then they will understand because they are doing it them selves and not having you show them or having you tell them how to drive the car.

5/26/10

I have read the lyrics and i have listened to the song. I think another good verse would be... "We shall hold each other up, we shall hold each other up, we shall hold each other up every day." I think this is a good verse because if we hold each otther up, then we are helping people and supporting them from all walks of life.

6/2/10

I thought that field day this year was pretty fun. I liked station one when we had to do the 50 yard dash, and I also liked the station when we had to grad the blue tubes from our class mates and run 100 yards( I think that's how far we had to run). What I didn't like was the kick ball game. I didn't like that because we didnt play with the real rules. Every one on each team had to kick, there were not a certain amount of outs that you had to get, and not a lot of people on each team were paying attention. Also I did not like some of the other games that we played because I thought that they were for yonger kids and not for our age. I thought that field day last year was a lot better than this year.

6/7/10

Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden

Department of State Hillary Clinton

Department of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner

Department of Defense Robert M. Gates

Department of Justice Eric H. Holder

Department of the Interior Kenneth L. Salazar

Department of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack

Department of Commerce Gary Locke

Department of Labor Hilda Solis

Department of Health and Human Services Kathy Sebelius

Department of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan

Department of Transportation Ray LaHood

Department of Energy Steven Chu

Department of Education Arne Duncan

Department of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki

Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

White House Chief of Staff Rahm I. Emanuel

Environmental Protection Agency Lisa Jackson

Office of Management & Budget Peter Orszag

United States Trade Representative Ronald Kirk

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice

Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer

6/9/10

The pros of using this website are that you get to interact with other kids online and respond to other peoples thoughts. Also, you get to see various responses of the other kids using this site. Some of the cons for using this website were that kids might have said mean things to other people on their reflection page and people might have deleted other kids responses on accident. Some things that were benaficial about the website were that it was easy to access and type my thoughts. The aspects that i enjoyed were that i could see how other people respond to a question, how the assignment relates to what we are doing in class, and putting my thoughts online to where my classmates can comment and see my thoughts. I dont think that there are any improvements that could be made because the website is fine how it is. Yes i would like to use this website in the futer because it is very helpful for doing homework and classwork.

6/10/10

Yes I do think that using wikispaces helped to build relashionships with my peers because it helps me interact with them more and I can discuse things with them online. Yes I do think that wikispaces helped to build my self-esteem because of the positive feed backs that i get from my class mates on my reflections. As one of your students, I thing that you can grow as an educator by interacting with the class more and instead of giving us independant work, we can do class work or group work. Using wikispaces has helped me to grow acidemically because it is another way to boost up my grades and help me learn more. You can improve your use of wikispaces by maybe adding games to wikispaces that can help you boost up your grades and to help you learn more.