Web Quest

Web quest will help me communicate better with my students because it uses there kind of learning. If you want to find something out today you go online. Fifteen years ago if you wanted to find something out you looked in a book or asked someone that might know. Today’s students grew up with the internet and so using the web is natural to a lot of them. Web quest guides learning in a step by step kind way. It takes the filtering process out of learn because the web quest has already found the “Best” sites to teach that information. We spend a lot of time on the web filtering or narrowing down our searches to find the right sites. Parents would like that kind of clear direction and safety first thought behind the assignment. They wouldn’t need to worry about what sites their child might run it to. Students like having real hands on learning. Online learning means the latest information on the subject. In a way web quest holds you’re had all the way through the learning process. They can be used in large groups or one on one. Web quests are fun to make but will take some time to put together. Perhaps I’m odd, I find it relaxing to play around with photos and click around the web looking for stuff. Doing group projects will help me learn to collaborate with my colleagues as a teacher. I look forward to getting with my group and sharing the ideas we have for our group web quest.




Surface Computing
I couldn’t get the link to work so I Google it and there was lots of videos about it. Wow! Cool! I got the impression from the video clips that this is the “wave of the future” that the keyboard and mouse are going into retirement. I can see myself playing around with photos as if they were real on the coffee table or even showing off home video chips to friends. It’s amazing that you don’t have to plug it in for the table to know that is sitting on its surface. The potential of it to become useable (Needed) in the home is what makes it seem science fiction to me. Will we ever need walls to be computer screens? Will we as a society rely on computers that much that they will need to be built into every surface? I think that is going a bit too far. Surface computing is real cool thou. I showed the movie to my Dad who is a retired teacher he said he is sure glad he got his schooling in back in the Dark Ages were everyone carried around slid rulers. He feels like technology is moving along so fast that he can’t keep up with it. There are a lot of neat new gadgets out there. As a teacher I will need to keep up with the technology so that I can relate to my students changing world.