Webquest Reflection

I thought that my webquest was well organized and made it easy for students to understand the assignment and view the resources easily. I wish I had more money for this project, when a teacher has a lot of funds, it usually helps out a lot and makes the learning experience even better. I thought that the planning sheet really helped. I usually procrastinate and since it made me plan what I was going to do in the future, it made the process a whole lot easier when it came time to actually do it. I thought the peer evaluation was fun. I loved seeing what others had done and their creative ideas! I am really glad that we had this assignment, I didn't even know that webquests existed before this class. The Zunal program made it a lot easier and had a great format that is really teacher friendly. I would recommend it to anyone.

WEBQUEST!!!!

Here is the link to my completed Webquest. ENJOY!!!! http://zunal.com/teacherspage.php?w=58452

Geometry Stuff....

Today in class we learned all about photoshopping. It was great fun walking around taking some photos. It was even more fun learning about how to edit them and make them cooler. Comic life was really cool and made it really easy to edit images and add cool graphics. I think this activity could be relevant in the classroom, this would be a really fun lesson with students who are a bit older.

Web Application

Today in class, we searched for useful web applications that we could use in our classrooms. I was looking for ones that were both educational and really fun. For math I found a really great website at funschool.kaboose.com. There was a game called balloon popper, where they give you addition and subtraction problems and the answer is in one of the balloons that are blowing up, but you have to find the answer before it pops!

I found a great science website at www.ed.heads.org. There is a game where you play a weather woman or man, and have to put the right sign for the forecast on the weather board. It was really educational and I think that kids will really like it.

I think that these go under multiple standards, the first being Standard 1 in Educational Technology, for the math game it would go under Standard 1 for Second Grade Math. And for the Science game, it would go under Standard 1 for Fourth Grade Math.

Webquest Ideas

Today we were introduced to our new project. We will be creating an interactive lesson through creating a webquest page. I think this is a great idea to for elementary teachers if they want a fresh, new way to teach a subject. I am in the 5th grade right now in my practicum. Every 5th grade classroom has to do a state report, so i thought that it would be a good idea to base my webquest page on this. I want assign every student one of the states. The requirements will be to write a one page report on their state, find a famous person from their state and write a few facts on that famous person, and to draw a map of their state, and a picture of their famous person. These are just ideas, so I will most likely change and add different ones while I think about it more.

Website Evaluations

Today in class we learned a lot about Websites and their information. There are many websites that are unreliable since websites can be written by anyone at anytime, and the information does not have to be correct. We looked at a few that were crazy.

We also looked at some educational websites and looked at some website evaluations. While looking over the evaluations I personally liked the Kathy Schrock guide. It is made especially for teachers and you can even choose the level of education that you are teaching at. It was clear and concise in the website questions. All of the questions were yes or no questions which is always nice. I liked the question asking if the spelling was correct on the page. It is a huge pet peeve of mine when things are spelt incorrectly when something is supposed to be professional.

I evaluated the Smithsonian website. I thought it was really good. I used the Kathy Schrock guide, and answered all the questions with positive answers toward the website. I also did the Wave on the Smithsonian website, and it didn't find ANY areas in the entire website, which I found pretty amazing. This was a good activity to see which websites will be good for our future classrooms!

All About Spreadsheets

Today we learned all about spreadsheets. It was really helpful. I have never been good at Spreadsheets and to go over simple exercises was a good review. The type of things that we learned are the type of things that I would use in my classroom.

These Spreadsheets will be perfect for recording test scores, homework and stuff like that. I also think this would be a good thing for the older grades to learn. A lot of people use Spreadsheets these days and it is becoming a necessary skill to have in

the working world. Having to learn these skills at an early age would be really good.

We also went to Google Docs and learned about the spreadsheets there. It is nice to know that it is free which is always nice. They were both really similar to each other, but I think I like Excel a little better. But overall today was really informative and I am

excited to use the things I learned today in my future classroom.