Kan-ed Reflection

In exploring the Kan-Ed website, I was amazed by all of the wonderful resources it has available to teachers, both current and future. The first site that I visited was the Kansas Digital Library. Because language arts are extremely important to me, I am always interested in finding out more about various ways to obtain books and other sources of useful information. The KDL is a cooperative partnership among the state’s archives, museums, historical societies, and libraries; however, they all incorporate the use of digital technologies to expand awareness and availability of their collections (which include materials that relate to Kansas in some way). I was really impressed with this site and plan to use it quite often in the future. Another site that I visited was Connect Kansas Kids. What a fantastic and extremely special site -- I love how it offers a technological infrastructure to extend the work of Kathy Davis to help reach kids with chronic illness, their classmates, and their friends and families in Kansas. A site like this shows that everything is possible with technology…and that it really helps bring us all together. The third site that I visited was World Book Student. I immediately thought that this would be so handy to use in the classroom, especially for students to take its quizzes or research various subjects. Having Kan-ed at our fingertips is such a wonderful resource…I am pleased to have come in contact with this site and know that I will use it regularly!