WebQuest

https://sites.google.com/site/whitneysquest/

At first I figured I'd just borrow the question "Why hasn't the United States had a female president?" I believe this is a worthy topic to explore, but in honesty i'm really not all that interested in politics. Since i'm an English major, it would seem proper to explore something in that field. I may pose the question "What makes Fantasy/ Science Fiction literature?"

WebQuest activity

WebQuest about WebQuests Worksheet

Print this page out and use it to jot down notes while you examine each site. Remember to stay in character as you examine the sites and don't compare notes until you get back with your four-person group.

Your Role

___Efficiency Expert

___Affiliator

__X_Altitudinist

___Technophile

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Grow School Greens	Eye catching animation, clear directions, direct process, specifies each job and its importance to the whole. Includes tips,	Too much reading for younger children. Minor grammar mistakes. Is a display book necessary? Wouldn’t it be better to use a technological presentation?
Where is My Hero?	Students will increase vocabulary, analysis of a hero, clear rubric, valuable resources	First page makes a political statement. Is Michael Jordon really a “hero?”
Underground Railroad	Requires students to think critically, asks questions, requires creativity, clear roles, valuable resources, This one is our favorite	Wouldn’t an online journal be more productive?
Ice Cream	Clear instructions, vivid,	Font may be too much., redundant, too long.
Ancient Egypt	Explores ancient civilizations, interactive, requires online research, least favorite	Inaccurate links,

Bernie Dodge, Department of Educational Technology, SDSU

Journal #11

The Youtube video "Thinking Creatively" explores three concepts: Content, Technology, and Pedagogy. To began with, I liked how the instructors set up the video. Instead of recording themselves giving a presentation that borrowed an idea from Stephen Colbert (I'm a huge fan) and displayed their massage with two different content boxes of sorts. In the video blog the authors discuss three problems. The first is that "Teaching with technology is a wicked problem." Then "Wicked problems require creative solutions," and finally that teacher are designers of the total PACKage." What I thought was most interesting is what the author said teacher are supposed to be. Not only are we meant to educate, but we are expected to be wise, funny, dramatic, sensitive, and flexible. I think this is an important notion because I hope to be those things for my future students.

Geary, , perf. Thinking Creatively: Teachers as designers of Content, Technology and Pedagogy. Youtube, 2008. Web. 9 Apr 2012.

Web 2.0 Timeline.

http://timeglider.com/app/viewer.php?uid=line_0f4ec6b63cadbf25bf980b06e6d86fb9

This is the URL for my Timeline that I created on https://timeglider.com/app/

Storybird

You can access my Storybird project here

Scratch Project.

My Scratch Project can be found on its website, since I'm not too sure how to upload it to my blog. This is the link http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/whitneyofgreatness/2444249

I used the "glide" and "say something" scratch cards.