WebQuest Analysis Worksheet

Questions to answer on worksheet. ( Skip number 4.)


1. The commercial uses sounds of fans at a NBA game. Yes, it makes the commercial more exciting.

2. The actor using the product looks very happy. I feel like thsi product would make me more like Kobe Bryant.

3. Yes, Kobe Bryant is in the commercial. I do not think Kobe Bryant eats Mcdonald's.

iPad Review

Review #1

KIDFIT: Health Education

The KIDFIT app provides kids with some insight on how to stay physically fit. It provides fitness tips for kids and also provides over 150 challenging exercises that are appropriate for kids as well. The app is set up with a model of the human body so that all kids have to do is click on the part/muscles of the body that they would like to exercise. After clicking on the desired muscles to work out, a list of exercises for that specific selected area will appear. You can then select an exercise and will be directed to a screen that gives specific step by step directions on how to perform it. The best thing about this app is that it can be parent protected. To make sure your little Michael Jordan is not over doing himself you can set up a parent protect password that allows you track what he is doing every step of the way. I give this app a 9 out of 10 rating. I feel that it not only helps educate kids with exercise techniques and physical activity, but also by learning parts of the body and muscles.

Review #2

World Book: Historical Education

This app is an interactive history calendar. It displays historical events for everyday of the year. Not only does it tell you what happened on a particular day, but it also provides you with photos, links, speeches, and music to bring that day in history to life for you as well. I give this app a 9 out of 10 rating. I feel that it would be perfect to use in a history class for a fact of the day. It allows students to not only hear about what happened, but with the use of the media provided they can actually experience the people and places as well.

Scratch Project

Scratch | Project | Finished*About me

Double Journal Entry #11:

3 Things I’ve learned:

Pedagogy refers to rules, theories, or ideas of teaching.

Quality teaching is the transformation of content.

Content must be transformed for students to understand.

Sources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNoijjIrPT8

WebQuest: Best & Worst

Best:
Shakespeare Project.
The Shakespeare project proved itself to be the best due to it's very descriptive group work qualities such as breaking the project into specific parts for student's to research.

Worst:
The Waves and Sound project was found to be the worst due to it's lack of group interaction by containing too much worksheet like questions.

WebQuest

Your Role

___Efficiency Expert

_X__Affiliator

___Altitudinist

___Technophile

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Saving The Gorillas	Allows students to collaborate and compile their findings into one solution to the problem.	Visiting websites to find information is more of a individual assignment.
World of Shakespeare	Student's must work together and are assigned different roles. All roles must do  their part or the project will fail.	Student's must research their specific roles individually.
Anti-Earthquake Designer	Student's must collaborate to create a structure that is the most earthquake resistant.	Student's resources are limited.
Foreign Country	Student's must work together to compile and highlight reasons as to why their country is better.	Seems very time consuming, even if split up between group members.
Waves and Sound	Contains a lot of information.	Mostly individual work. Too mush like a work sheet.

Double Journal Entry #10:

Quote: For many students, the Web is primarily a place for browsing, clicking, and chatting.

In today’s society students, as well as educators, are not utilizing the web to its full potential. The web has so much more to offer a classroom than just merely looking up information. Why not have students publish their own information? Students today have the opportunity and technology available to publish their own thoughts and research for others to use. I feel that this is something all students should be engaged in. Not only are they learning through their own thought processes by exploring and understanding the information that they are publishing, but also they are taking pride in the work they do and becoming somewhat of an expert in their own eyes to the person or persons that may use their material.

In this video fifth grade students published their science experiment discoveries.

Sources:

http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPSC%2FPSC44_03%2FS1049096511000746a.pdf&code=b05f8f6ca658f555559d97c60a9e146d

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kOAjIUyfPk