Saturday, December 5, 2009

Virtual Schooling

Virtual Schooling provides people with the opportunity to pursue or continue their education online. There are numerous universities that now offer online courses and numerous universities that are found entirely online. The benefits are that people mat not have to quit their jobs, relocate, or have to spend additional money for housing because they chose to use virtual schooling.

I believe that I can use virtual schooling to complete courses which may not require much interaction between the teacher, my classmates, and I. This would provide me with more time to focus on other courses which are more time consuming and require my physical presence. Furthermore, I would use online schooling if I had aspirations of gaining additional degrees within the field of education or other fields that I may be interested, but do require me to leave my stable lifestyle.

I found this website to be very beneficial because it provided a search engine to locate different accredited universities. It also had listings of the courses that were available online and which colleges had those particular courses. I think this website would be very useful to me, if I were searching for online courses to take.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Proffesional Web Presence

A Professional Web Presence can be done by creating a website that provides people with a professional background on who he or she is . Some people utilize Google Sites to create a website that people can access. The benefit of using a Professional Web Presence is that potential employers have an opportunity to gain more insight on who that person is and what qualities he or she has to offer.

I would utilize a web presence as an online resume which highlights my personal and educational qualities. I think it would be very useful when I begin to search for a job after receiving my Bachelor's and Master's Degree. I can also use Google Sites to create a site that my students can access to find supplemental material and class content.

The youtube video about Google sites provides me with a better understanding of how to navigate Google sites. It also provided me with more examples of how I could use Google Sites to publish information.