All about Webquests

It's concerning how many students now days do not see any part of learning or going to school as fun. In my opinion, there is no better way to teach students that learning can be fun than by using webquests in your classroom. Not only are they engaging and enjoyable for your students, they target all types of learners in the classroom - visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Rather than filling out boring worksheets all day, students are actually challenged in different ways when using webquests to learn a concept. For example, in the webquest Fun With Shapes students explore the concept of shapes by making their own books about shapes, exploring shapes around the classroom, completing puzzles, doing a writing activity about their favorite shape and playing games using shapes. I had never heard of a webquest or seen one until this class and I'm thankful that I was introduced to them. I will definitely try to use webquests in my classroom someday because students need to have the mind set that learning can be fun and learning IS fun! 

website evaluation

I learned a good amount about evaluating websites through this assignment. Before, I never really thought twice about a website being reliable before I just decided to use the information. I have always been the type to type a search term in Google and open the very first link it spits out at me. After this assignment, I understand the importance of evaluating websites before using their information. When I am teaching in the near future, I realize how critical it is to choose only legitimate websites for my students to use. I also plan to teach my students how to go about evaluating a website on their own so that they may use only the best resources available when searching the internet.

course expectations

I consider myself knowledgeable about technology and particularly computers. However, I am not familiar with anything involving technology in the classroom. When looking at the tools we will learn how to use in this class, I am only familiar with how to use Blogger. I'm looking forward to learning about the many other tools taught in this class so I can use them with my students someday. I expect to finish TPTE 486 with a great amount of ideas for ways I can integrate technology into my classroom in ways that will help my students to succeed.

Welcome to my blog :) 
Here I will post about ways I have learned to integrate technology into the curriculum in my classroom someday.