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Week 3 - Weekly To Do List
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Discussion Here are Week Three's discussion questions. Start with any questions. Commenting on another student's answer counts as participation. We are going to talk back and forth about the topic. TIE into Practice - American Presidency Webquest - p. 282, #2, Phase 1
Give us your ideas and observations in the conference in Week 3 discussion. |
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See TRG, your Textbook Reading Guide, who will tell you what pages to read in your textbook. Only the pages listed will appear in the quizzes. Just follow the sneakers. |
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Create your own WebQuest. "A Web Quest is not a Treasure Hunt." A treasure hunt is a knowledge search; a web quest is a problem solving activity. A web quest presents student groups with a challenging task, or a scenario, or a problem to solve. Logistically, all student begin by learning some common background knowledge. Then they divide into groups. Each group has a role or a task or a perspective to master. They become the experts of this area. When the roles come together, students must synthesize their learning by completing a summarizing activity. To get yourself thoroughly immersed in Web Quests, check some of the different kinds of web quests:
See the definition of each category and examples of web quests in that category at: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html Your challenge is to create a web quest (you do NOT have to make the web pages, but you do have to find the links to use). Walk through the steps in Building Blocks tutorial. You will not need a teacher's page. You will need the following pieces, which you can write up in a word processor and attach on web board or copy and paste into the message area.
The tutorial is at: http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/buildingblocks/p-index.htm Here are the rubric categories that I will use for grading. If you are not sure what each category is, use the WebQuest Checklist. Just check the box that you want info on and sign in with your first name and you'll get a personalize tutorial.
Here is the full rubric. Finally, here is a site that tells you what webquests are NOT. Check the Coursework Calendar for the due date.
Weekly updates of Portfolio Competencies and Annotated Bibliography Go to your Portfolio update conference and let me know what you learned in week 3 and how it applies to your NETS checklist. You may also want to keep track of this in your private folder, so you can add things as they come along. Annotated Bibliography You can put this in your private folder and just add to it each week. So what sites or books or magazines did you find this week that you want to add to your bibliography. Remember, it is easier to do the annotation at the time that you found the item and are excited about it than to remember what it was all about later!! The annotation should include who it is for (is it a teacher's resource or a student's resource), what level or class would it be for, and how would you use it.
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WebQuest Resources Best WebQuests lists this activity by subject mater and grade level. Web Quest News has archives of resources as well as new material and a "find" for webquests.
Carol Hurst Children's Literature Site Interested in children's literature and how to use it? Here is a site that offers both professional resources and a wealth of information on children's literature. You can also sign up for a free newsletter on this topic. Again this site is highlighted, because it is a good example of constructivist software. Check out the free demos. Review the program Decisions,Decisions, which is collaborative software. Read the Great Technology newsletter. |
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1: What relative advantage did Mr. Cole hope the webquest would have
for learning about history? How would the Presidents Jeopardy exercise
be a better strategy than the usual way of reviewing for the exam?
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