class reflection 10/14

Tonight we went in depth into how to properly create a reflection for our trailer project. As it turns out, I, like many of my classmates, did not even skim the surface on what I could have written, so needless to say, I will be spending some time this weekend revisiting that assignment.
     After we were brought up to speed on that subject, we learned about three extremely useful websites for references and information that has been made available for educators.
    ISTE-  lists the standards for teachers, students, and administers to follow as a benchmark.
    Edutopia and Edudemic- are both websites for articles and ideas for educators to apply in practice in their classrooms.
     Following the three websites we explored Wikipedia. The goal of the lesson was to demonstrate that we have a lot of misconceptions about the internet. Wikipedia is about shared wealth and open-access. They believe everything should be shared equally by all. Knowledge should be accessible by everyone. What was interesting to me was that I had always been led to believe that anyone can instantly edit wiki articles. As we learned, that isn't true at all. One must go through a process to do so, and must earn your way up as your edits are approved and are accurate. It was definitely an eye-opening experience exploring Wikipedia in this way and finding out for myself why you actually can not refer to Wikipedia; which is only because they purposely hide the identity of their editors.