Webquest Lessons
Webquest lessons are a great way to give your students limited access to the internet. It is smart to have a lesson set up so that you can guide their learning while letting them do there own thing. It seems like it scaffolds student work on the internet because it makes it easy for them to access a variety of resources from one central location. I know how difficult it is to find things on the internet without a guide so I would not expect young children to be able to do it either.
I will be using my Webquest assignment as an opportunity to compile resources in a kid friendly way. The language and directions I will use will have to be simple enough for a Kindergartener to use. Providing links to various sources that have information on the topic I have chosen, Pirates, will allow students to learn more about the subject and be independent.
One concern that I have is that the webcomposing tool that we have learned on is not a very good one in my opinion. Although I have limited abilities in this area I know that Mozilla is not that great of a program, it is easy but will not be accessible to us later on. I would rather work on something that I will be able to use later on. I also could not get this software on my Mac making it impossible for me to work on or add to my webpage if I was not at school.
I will be using my Webquest assignment as an opportunity to compile resources in a kid friendly way. The language and directions I will use will have to be simple enough for a Kindergartener to use. Providing links to various sources that have information on the topic I have chosen, Pirates, will allow students to learn more about the subject and be independent.
One concern that I have is that the webcomposing tool that we have learned on is not a very good one in my opinion. Although I have limited abilities in this area I know that Mozilla is not that great of a program, it is easy but will not be accessible to us later on. I would rather work on something that I will be able to use later on. I also could not get this software on my Mac making it impossible for me to work on or add to my webpage if I was not at school.
posted by Makaela at 4:01 PM
2 Comments:
That's ironic since we chose Mozilla because it is free and I thought there was a Mac version... I'm not positive we have time to go over a different web software. Would Dreamweaver be your ideal choice? Do you think people would be willing to meet after class or some other time to learn how to use it?
Oh, also... the design of your WebQuest will be very different than if you were designing for a 5th grade class. How much can kids read at that age? Maybe lots of pictures instead of text?
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