Today's Take Away (And Happy Almost Easter)

While we went through all of the WebQuests today I became a bit intimidated by the creativity of previous students. But after going through the various requirements and ways to create I thought about all of the posibiilities for my own Quest.

I want to wish you all good luck on your WebQuests and I am so excited to explore all that you have created. I am sure that you will be brought to the table will be amazing and beautiful.

Lastly, Happy Easter and enjoy your well deserved break.

Take-aways for Today

While we all sit in class together, I am constantly amazed in the way that we make one another think. To be able to intellectualize our thoughts is exciting. However the contradictory/developed ideas that other students have bring on provocative thinking for one another. I just want to thank all of you for helping me to learn more from this class than i can simply learn out of a book.

I guess that brings me to my next point. For as much as I love the integration of technology into the classrooms (appropriately of course,) there is something lost when courses are solely offered online. Students lose the chance to interact and make one another think.

I am just so happy that we are all able to help one another and create a unique classroom experience.

I look forward to seeing all of your projects in the coming weeks. (I am also a bit intimidated because you are all so capable.)

Reflecting on Using Online Organizational Tools to Create a WebQuest

Bringing what we have practiced into fruition allows us the unique opportunity to organize online lessons in a way that we sit fit to teach our students. However, when embarking on such a journey, information can become overwhelming. The Internet is such a vast and interesting place, filled with ideas from around the world. I have come to the crossroads of having so much information that I have trouble deciding which items will be most useful for my students.

This is where I found the textbook, specifically the beginning of chapter 6, to be especially useful. In my experience, when you find something to be too cumbersome, it is best to organize it. However, I was naive to what resources are available to teachers to organize online information, resources and tools.

Looking through these organizational resources, both in print and online,  I became more comfortable with how I would begin my WebQuest Journey. Utilizing resources such as Delicious allowed me to see ways that I could organize my ideas for my students through the lens of the Internet.

Now that I am able to do so, I am much more confident about organizing my WebQuest in a way that is efficient and useful for my students.

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Questions:

1. What did you find to be most useful in Chapters 4 and 6?

2. How can we utilize this new information in a way that is beneficial for ourselves and our students?

3. How can we continue this pursuit of new knowledge after we move on from our graduate coursework?