I would like to introduce you to a new Web 2.0 tool that I discovered called Fatburgr. This site is committed to providing the nutritional information of foods from popular restaurants (Fatburgr, 2010, p. 1). Fatburgr provides users with the opportunity to search by restaurant name or category of food, providing the calorie count along with the grams of fat, carbohydrates and fiber of the food, including specialty drinks. Fatburgr also provides an RSS feed to keep users up-dated on new restaurant additions to the Fatburgr site. For the mobile user, the site provides an iPhone link for iPhone users to conveniently search for nutritional content while perusing the menu of a listed restaurant.
Since using Fatburgr is a specialty Web 2.0 tool, using it in an everyday fashion in my curriculum is unrealistic. However, I am really excited about the possibility of using it in my 8th grade curriculum in the personal finance unit. In this unit, students learn the skills of managing their money while relating these money management skills to real life situations. Throughout the class, students are constantly managing their personal finances based on a specific job, income and lifestyle addressing the real life issues of planning food for optimum health while eating out and considering their budget. This tool would be an easy tool for students to use to facilitate information gathering for this activity. An added benefit for students is that it is available on the Internet for them to access when they are not at school connecting student learning to their home environments.
Fatburgr. (2008). Retrieved from http://fatburgr.com/
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