webquest link

http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=58615

Web quest reflection

A) I think the best thing about my web quest would have to be how straight to the point it is. The kids will find word for word the questions on the internet so I dont think you would get a bunch of kids asking you questions and you can keep your attention on the class as a whole.

B) I wish I had more time to create something where they could act something out. Kids are very creative and always put a smile on my face when they make something up and perform it. I think it would be really cool to have them do something like that.

C) I am not much of a planner. But I really liked the peer evaluation. Just having another set of eyes can tell you a lot about the web quest and the usually can spot all the errors you missed. I think having another set of eyes look at your web quest is a great idea.

D) I realized how important it is that you truly know your subject. There were many times when I was not sure of something and had to look it up. If I would have known it right off the top of my head it would have saved me a lot of time.

You know what I'm talkin bout!

I really enjoyed using comic life. I have used photoshop quite a bit but everything is so technical, using comic life made it really easy to change the font and add captions, plus they look great. I think that I will definitely think about using a program like this in my classroom for presentations or things of this nature.

Web App-lica-tions

There are many great web applications out there. Many of them are great for learning tools, but there are some out there that you must be careful about. I recommend trying it before you assign it option. You always need to go in and play it yourself. With todays games they are getting more and more violent at earlier ages and show no signs of stopping. Many children come from homes where they are playing very violent games and see no problems with it. If all children were like this it would not be a problem. But some parents are very strict about this kind of thing, this is why you need to find games that would be appropriate for all ages.

I recently played a fireworks game where you ran around and set off fire works. You cold connect this to Standard 1 Objective 1 of the Social Studies 5th grade core. It talks about expansion of the colonies and immigration and I know for a fact fireworks were founded in China so people would have to immigrate here. Also the building in the background is Independence Hall which you could build a pretty cool lesson plan off of.

I also played a word scramble game which you cold really connect to almost anything. They had categories for science, english, social studies and more. You could also have them do this at any age. There were some that were really easy but then i went to the harder ones and i could barely answer them. I love unscrambling words so i thought this was a great application