Blog post # 10

I chose to review this website (http://www.easybib.com/) I found it to be extremely useful while citing papers in middle and high school. Every student has had to cite a paper in either MLA, APA, or Chicago formatting, and this site makes the process a lot easier. It allows you to cite almost any source imagineable, including books, websites, encyclopedias, magazines, and newspapers. Although some teachers would encourage their students to learn how to cite without using a computer resource, there's just so many little things to remember when citing sources that it would just end up causing a lot of errors to cite from memorization.

The site first allows you to pick your source from over 50 options. When you pick a source, you have to fill out a little bit of information and then the site produces a bibliography for you. This can be done for any source you have, so when you're finished, you can easily copy and paste your entire bibliography into your paper. The site is easy to use, but is kind of crowded with text and advertisements which make it hard to navigate at first. The color is simple and isn't overwhelming to look at.

I think web 2.0 tools are really useful to use in that classroom. There are so many options to choose from that any teacher could find benefit in using one. I think that the photo sharing website Flickr would be useful for teachers, because it provides them with a page to share all the pictures the students may need in doing a project, or to show all the pictures from class events.