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Soundz A Bound
I went into Soundz a Bound, because it has music, sounds, and will let you record for yourself. Most of the sounds are very actual and believable. I also think that it is important to have music in the classroom. It has taken me who is not very good with computers more than a half hour to figure it out. I could not just find a way to play a music feed into the classroom while students do quiet work at their desks. The reason that I wanted to know more about this web site is that it is good to have something that the children know is a sign to be quiet and music is a good way. I also like what I found about all the sounds that you can get and share and make it into a lesson about your senses and your hearing do you know what sound that was? I like teaching about how to expand our senses. One more thing that I learned is that the students can make recordings of themselves. The student needs to make a presentation but is shy or will not be there they could record themselves and share the recording with the class and not have to say too much themselves. Students also like to put presentations to music or sounds and they can do it however they want and nothing is bad in this site.

Culture Grams
This site has lots of information about countries and each of the states in the United States. I looked at two countries Brazil and Germany. I looked at these two countries because I do know a lot about them and the information was very good. I could disagree with some of the recipes that were there for Brazil but they were very close to the real thing. I checked on how up dated the pages were and they were as of this year. Yes, it was easy to find thing that I was looking for with all of the tabs and pictures. As a future teacher I see myself using this to help the children see what is in the world that they live in and the cultures around them. This lets me as a teacher show that people are people and everyone has families and has feelings no matter where you come from. I would be able to ask my first graders to find the flag of our state and of our country and I would be able to ask them to share some thing that they learned about our state and about our country as they looked though the web site.

EMedia
Most of the information I looked at was books that are short movie like format. I like giving students a different way to read a book. There are also pictures and other media options too. I fined that a book is always a book. The information is narrow for a first grade teacher goes, but may be I need to spend more than an hour to fined more things for the first grade. The pictures that I did see are up to date and the movie clips seamed to be the best possible. The web site was good for getting to what I want. I do think that it might be more for older students. The pictures in slide shows or topic lessons to let the students see what is being talked about. I also think that using the short films will be good to help teach students. I believe that everything should be taught as often as possible to use every learning stile and with the use of as many of the senses as possible. This web site gives some of this as an option. Children can go back and reread the books to understand an assignment better and also to use the pictures in their own projects.