Webquest February 14, 2009

I believe that a Webquest is a way to put your assignments and lesson plans online for everyone to see. It is a way to share your lessons with your students without to just lecture. With the webquest, there's already a format made for your assignment and lesson plans which includes, the title of you lesson, the introduction, the task, the process, evaluation, conclusion, and a teacher's page. It's already been set for you to use. You can upload images. I really enjoyed this assignment because it was really helpful. Very user friendly. I would use the webquest site in my classroom by posting my lessons online and presenting it to the class.

Timeline February 14, 2009

"Happy Valentines Day to all!" Today, in class we worked on timelines. We used a free online source (right) to create a timeline of our life using 8 events that happened in our life. The one thing that I liked about this online software is that it is "FREE" Another thing that i liked was that we didn't have to create a timeline, it was already made, we just had to plug in the dates and the description of events. I also liked how we are able to print it out. I would use timelines on line in my classroom by first printing out a blank timeline with a topic on maybe social studies. Only have the dates of the terms that each president was in office and have students plug in the names of the Presidents on the right side. I would also do an activity like what we did today. A Life Timeline. Have students do their own Likfe Timeline but limit the events to 3. This online source is very useful. I'm glad I was introduced to it!

The image to the left is another free online source called www.xtimeline.com that allows anyone to create timelines. All you need to do is to sign up for it and you can go right away to create any timeline you wish. This site compared to the other, I prefer to use because you're not really limited. You can download imgaes that go along with your events in your timeline. The teach-nology timeline website does not really have much to do in but it is simple to work with. Simple os better. Less is more. The one problem with xtimeline is that, there's so much that is required to do. Like for example, tags for each event is a "must" to enter inorder for the event to be saved. But other than that, I would reccomend both sites to others and would use it in my classroom.

Class Assignment on January 31, 2009

Today in class we looked at different word processors on the internet. There were 3 different sites that Mr. Jenkins wanted us to check out. We split the class into 3 groups according to the 3 different sites. For my group we had the ThinkFree site. This site compared to the other word processor sites was the only one that offered more than the word processor and movie, it offered a spreadsheet and a PowerPoint presentation. Then each group shared what they found on their site. The 3 word processing sites are useful in the classroom but is limited to a lot of things. Then we worked on Google Docs, a site that requires a google account and you can invite your students to work on assignments all together at the sametime in class. Then we worked on updating our blog profiles.