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The first site I explored on our interactive text book was a calendar website that showed all the important dates of history. It has many different links, with different calendar areas that can be explored. For example, they have a calendar for black history, the civil war, the space race, and many more educational calendars that can help a history teacher tremendously. The second website that I found very helpful to me is the Wordsmyth website. This can help any teacher, or in this case any student. You just type in a word, and at the click of the button you have the definition right in front of your eyes. It also gives you the synonyms and pronunciation of each word. This will help cut down time on vocabulary lessons. It will save you time in classes if you are able to have computers in your classrooms.

In the last class, I learned again a lot of new things about Microsoft Word. I was able to create a news letter that had columns, word art, backgrounds, and many other different things. This will help me a lot in my future, not only in my classroom but in my future summer jobs. In my classroom, now I will be able to send out letters to my parents, and notify them of what we are doing in the class as far as assignments in class, and outside of class.

While I was looking at all the different websites under assistive technology, I found one that really interested me. It is called Readingpen II. This website is to help children with dyslexia. It does many neat and interesting things. It can read aloud the sentences, cross reference words in the sentences that may be confusing to some children, and it also displays the text in a large print to make sure that the words are seen and this helps so that they are not mixed up by the child. This can help a teacher help that student to overcome his dyslexia. You want to help the child as much as you can and with this software, I feel that this will help that student out and give him/her more confidence in themselves.