Learning about the Internet and the HTML language

Learning about the history of the Internet this week gave me a chance to see how it all began. I know this may sound stupid, but I had never even heard of ARPANET before doing this assignment. Also, I was able to learn about a lot of the people who set up the foundation of the Internet. I enjoyed creating the timeline on Dipity which I had never done before. This is a great resource that can also be utilized in the classroom. Timelines could be created especially for social studies. I like how you can add pictures, links, videos, and information to each block on the timeline.

I also enjoyed learning the language of html this week. I had never used it besides copy and pasting stuff to put on my Myspace page, but I wasn't the one who wrote those html codes... It was interesting to learn the process behind creating a website using html codes. I think this will be useful if I ever want to create a website to use in my future classroom. Also, I liked the activity of having to alter and correct the website provided. It was good practice for me to go through and see what corrections needed to be made to the website provided. It helped me to understand this html language even better since I had to apply what I learned!