Chapter 5

The first thing that caught my attention was on page 128. This section refers to different types of text. The first statement in this section that I really agreed with was “Well-designed documents can represent a great deal of information in an efficient format.” My question is why all text can’t be creating in with this thought in mind. There are so many text books out there that are so filled with great information but are so poorly laid out no one can stand to read them.

The next thing that really made me stop in my tracks was on page 133, the little green box at the bottom of the page. I just sat there for a second and said “WOW”. I have internet at my home, at school on my personal computer and I am aloud to use school computers in the library as well as the labs. It is hard to imagine people without internet or computers. We have teachers that have web based homework sites, blog sites, I even read about a teacher who had set up twitter for her class. As a teacher you have to ask, how far behind those children are going to be without computers compared to the student with.

The last thing that stuck out t me was on page 136. This section talks about readability formulas. I think these are very interesting because this aspect of education is not different than others. You have test to help you do a better job of teaching your students but there is still a lot of room for errors. Also there are so many different types of test that can be given that who know what is really more accurate. If you look hard enough you can always find someone who believes or disagrees with every test out there.