I may have a lesson plan including Microsoft Office Power Point. I would be using Power Point to do slides for my class, which will be 5th grade and under, to get the points of the topic clearly on the board. I may also use Inspiration for charts, such as in English (in elementary you typically teach all fields) students can clearly see how an essay should be written when they can see a chart.
Facebook.com is a great website that meets many criteria from Chapter 6 on a good power point on a web page. It's very consistent in color (gray and blue), text is justified (at top and columns), very few different fonts (header, body, some links), more than just text (pictures and so forth), everything is important (well as important as something can be on facebook), correct capitalization, very easy to use, screen is focused (with help from tables), matches audience approval, no flashing texts (except in ads), lists (everywhere on the site links are in list form), navigation is simple (in header), graphics (pictures), organized screens (once again, tables), size is used appropriately, and things are placed properly. Facebook did a good job at creating a user friendly web page.
When I was a kid, my teachers were very skeptical of plagiarism, they had web pages that would determine if the paper was plagiarized, they made you use books only they knew (so they can tell if you just copied it), and other things. As a teacher, I would probably allow my students to use any source they wish, as long as they had a complete bibliography and the paper was written more as an analysis rather than a lecture on the subject matter. This proves that the student actually read the books, articles, etc. and understood it enough to think about it and write what he or she thought of the book.
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