What are WebQuests and virtual field trips?
WebQuests and virtual field trip are online tools designed to get the student more involved and interested in learning. WebQuests are designed by students, students make their inquiries and then teachers guide them. In a WebQuest, students navigate through a web resource to gather and learn information on a topic. Once they've learned about a topic, they will then assess what they find or prepare a presentation based on their findings. There are many sites and resources teacher can use in order to create a successful WebQuest. In comparison to WebQuest, virtual field trips work in a similar way but differ because these are designed to take a student on a field trip anywhere in the world without ever having to leave their schools. Multiple computers are required for virtual field trips because students can explore museums and historical places anywhere. Virtual field trips are still new therefore, a lot of research is still being done but student so far have shown higher reading comprehension skills in a recent study done.
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This tech tool is all about online field trips. This site takes you right to the source while adding the interesting facts and history behind the cave paintings. It also enhances the site by showing some amazing pictures. The idea is to take students on a field trip without the "field" aspect of it. A great idea when used on rainy days or at times where every students wouldn't be able to physically make the trip. The only downside would be that every aspect of the tool depends on technology working.
Chapter 6 Summary Teaching with Educational Websites and Other Online Resources
This chapter introduces online resources, book marking, social book marking, and information alerts used for organizing. It provides information for managing information electronically and gathering the information to make your lesson fun and interesting. It provides bookmarking tools and provides education on how to use them appropriately like on Portaportal. It also gives the information needed on how to use social book marking as well.
The standard connector simplifies and stores state standards which helps keep teachers organized and calm. Being a teacher can get a little chaotic at times and having a tool such as this helps keeps things calm and organized.
Next, it talks about WebQuest and virtual field trips. Also, it provides information on educational websites as teaching resources and how to utilize them. Using educational websites interactively to engage a student is extremely important because you want to be able to keep your students interested and you want them to absorb the information your teaching as an educator. This chapter explains how to do this in an effective manner.
Finally, it show educators how to use technology transformation on their lesson plans. A
You summarize great information from the textbook in this blog post - you will want to add the textbook resource and more importantly, begin to think about ways this information impacts your life in the classroom, how it might be used, why it might work (or not) for you, etc. And be sure to hyperlink or better yet, embed videos in your blog post.
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