https://sites.google.com/site/educ2221springgroup3/home


This is the link to our final project

https://sites.google.com/site/conqueringfractions/home - completed WebQuest

My web quest can be found at:
https://sites.google.com/site/conqueringfractions/home

Driving Question:  What daily activities involve conquering fraction operations?

Students will work through daily activities involving solving or manipulating fractions to move through their day.

WebQuest Project

Your Role

__x_Efficiency Expert

___Affiliator

___Altitudinist

___Technophile

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Grow School Greens	-learn a whole lot of skills -teamwork	-long term – takes 15 weeks
Where is My Hero?	-multidisciplinary – learn about history/writing/reading -meets some content standards	-longer than it should be – 1-2 weeks
Underground Railroad	-cooperative learning -includes logic and history – like a puzzle figuring out history	-1 week long
Ice Cream	-creativity -chart making and understanding	-1 week long -not extremely useful in the bigger picture; does not meet content standards
Ancient Egypt	-1-2 days -learn interesting facts about Egypt; students are interested	-only random facts, not directed

DBE # 11 Thinking Creatively

Three things I learned from the video: Thinking Creatively: Teachers as designers of Content, Technology and Pedagogy part1

1. Teaching with technology is a problem because technology is unstable and "opaque"- meaning you cant see how it works.

2. Pedogogy and Content can get messy and must be interesting to be acessible to students.

3. Transformation of content to be interesting and acessible to students is quality teaching.

Web 2.0 Tool Review

I went to http://www.abcya.com/ and reviewed the Numbers games for fourth grade. I think video games are a great supplemental tool to reinforce math applications. The jet ski game allowed practice on quick recall of math facts which is good if you feel speed is important. The Math Man game similiar to Pac Man was not as good. The player has to "eat a question" first and then eat the ghost with the correct answer. The questions were too few and far between that unless you are really adept at video games, you never get to practice your math. The other application I liked was the Math Quiz. Students log in and click on Math Quiz and random quizzes are given. A great way to assess mastery at individual pace. Students can print their scores to turn in for recording. Overall this site was ok but not an excellent site. I probably would only use it  as a secondary site in the event a student needed extra work or practice.

StoryBird

Here is a link to my Story Bird.

http://storybird.com/books/last-day-of-summer-3/?token=shymbn