Sunday, March 25, 2012

Internet Projects and WebQuests

The amount of high quality instructional resources available to teachers on the Internet is overwhelming. However, there are resources that make the daunting task of searching the Internet and utilizing information a bit easier. In the reading Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times you will find ideas that help to enrich your curriculum with internet resource. Some ideas that came up in the reading were Internet projects and WebQuests, two ways of using the internet that I was not overly familiar with. All of which make perfect sense in the means of organizing resources on specific topics for teachers to use as instructional tools to help students explore and discuss different topics. Here are a couple of examples:
Not all the links work in the above example, but I liked the idea especially for a kindergarten Internet project. 
WebQuest: Designing Hermit's New Home - basing a WebQuest on literature read in class

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