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1.. I followed Teacher Magazine, Embrace Church and Erbert and Gerberts. I found out some interesting things going on around with school and budgets cuts going on like crazy in some places. I enjoyed looking over peoples comments to the articles the best. WIth the Embrace church site, I found out things about the upcoming services and events going on with the Church. Lastly, I foolowed Erbert and Gerbert hoping I would find more information about when this sub shop was coming to Sioux Falls, but I failed to find out any more information than I alreadu knew.

2. I wasn't on Facebook until the beginning on this month, but now I am. I got into it quite a bit at the begiining, but I am not as addicted as I thought I was going to be. I do check it on a regular basis, but just don't do as much with it as I thought I was going to. When I first got on, I thought I was doomed.

3.a. For entertainment on the internet, I followe ESPN, and I do fantasy sports. I am a little addicted to the fantasy sports. I now follow Facebook and see what's going on with people.

b. Last summer my wife and I got Blackberry phones. They have been pretty fun to have. They allow you to do many things that our old phones weren't able to do. I am able to get online and check my email, facebook, and get my updated sports scores without having to go downstairs to do so.

4a.I think that to a certain extent playing video games can help a student, especially some of those real thinking games where you have to follow certian paths and remember where things are and where you may have to go in the future. When I was younger, I got hooked to a game like that and it really got you to focus in on clues and pay attention to the surroundings as you would need to remember information later on in the game.

4b. One thing that sort of surprised me to an extent was the survery done about the 17 year olds and that 1 in 5 don't read literature at all. I would have guessed it was low, but not that low. This doesn't count reading on the internet, usually nonfiction. The other thing that surprised me was some of the work places that they were talking about like Microsoft's Redmond campus in how it looks like a playground. How sweet would that be? That wouldn't be too hard for me to get motivated to go to work.

5. I think that the Scribd site could be useful for my classroom. I went in and found a wordplay site which had some interesting things to do. I do brainteasers quite often in my classroom and it had some of those do to. It had a rotated reading which also looked pretty interestign and like it would be fun for students and get them into reading, just because its different.