Week three of Webquests and my team has worked really hard. We were putting out final touches on everything and making it look really fun for kids. We totally forgot about the credits page so we had to go back and look for all our sites, crazy us! I have been looking at many people's webquests and I have to say that everyone has been working really hard on these. We went over the Rubric and Peer Evaluations this week as well. I really like that Doc Water's lets our input have a say in our grading. There are hundreds of us and 1 of here and that is such a huge job to grade everything. Plus it is wonderful practice for us to help us familiarize ourselves with creating Rubrics. And as teachers you are constantly being evaluated and learning how to take criticism and applying it to make you better is a task that all of us need to learn.
So why do we care about creating Webquests? Are they going to make us better teachers? Technology is a huge part of our world and just like our older generations are having difficult times getting with the technology age, I don't want to be lost. We have to realize that our students are going to be coming into the classroom and they will know how to use the computer. Everything is changing, people aren't writing anymore everything is typed. With this change comes changes for the future teachers. If we can use the amazing World Wide Web to help our students learn, why not! Technology makes things easier and that should help free up time to teach your students more and to really dig deep into their learning.
Now that I know how to create webquests, PPS's, and do hyperlinks. I feel that I am more comfortable in a computer class. I plan on using webquests to enrich my teaching and to break up the normal routine of class. In fact everything I am learning in this class will be very helpful in all areas of life not just my personal classroom. I can create PPS's for staff meetings, community meetings, family slide shows, just about everything. I have had people at my current job and friends ask me questions about websites, google docs, blogs, and hyperlinks all of which I am now an expert at! I am really glad that this class is part of our program classes.
I LOVE SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK! In fact we even used a School House Rock song in our Webquest about weather. There is pretty much a School House Rock for anything and everything you could think of. We have seen many of them in our other classes this semester so far. I still remember Conjunction, Junction- What's your function, and I'm just a Bill from when I was in school. Learning something through a Song really helps you remember, and even now I can still go back and start to sing and it brings back all the memories of the lessons I did that were associated with that unit. To many these seem silly, but to be honest, kids are SILLY and they love this stuff and it takes the heat off you as the teacher for a minute and lets the kids listen to some one else and also enjoy a catchy song.
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