UEN Reflection

I found the UEN network to be a very useful tool for my future classroom.
The Pioneer Library was a great place to find information. I would have my future students use it to look up information for projects in my health, biology and anatomy classes. It is a good, relevant source of information that students can turn to without having to sort through non-scholarly articles on sites like Google.com.
The interactives are really cool. I would especially like to use it for my biology students, because it provides somewhat of a 'lab' experience with a little more flexibility. Students are able to see results from their experiments more rapidly than with regular experiments. It also allows them to do an experiment under ideal conditions, without such a large margin of error.
The lesson plan tools were FANTASTIC. I definitely plan on using them. Their nutrition unit that I looked up for my health students was really great. It gave a lot of creative ideas that I might not have thought of on my own. I definitely want to use them in my future teaching experiences.
The core curriculum was also useful. It outlined exactly what the state expects you to teach in your courses, in an easy accessible place to find it. I really enjoyed looking through the core curriculum for all of my classes I eventually will teach.
Another thing that I really liked were the inner components of Pioneer Library. The world articles were great to learn about other countries. In my biology classes I might be able to eventually integrate that if we are studying different environments for organisms around the world.
This was a time consuming, but very informative project. I felt that it was such a great resource that is probably under-utilized. I do plan on using it in my classroom and teaching experiences.