WebQuest

This week we learned about webquest. I think that this is a very good thing to learn how to do. I think that webquest could be very fun and educational in the classroom. I think that students love to do something different and that webquest are a great way to get students engaged in their learning. I am really excited to learn more about how to make and design webquests. I think that this will be a very good tool to use in the classroom.

Technology Interview Reflection

Reflection
Write a reflection that includes, but is not limited to, the following:
1. What did you learn from this interview? This interview helped me learned a lot about how many different ways there are to get the technology that you need into your classroom. I also realized that the socioeconomic status of the school and the children really effect what is in the classrooms. It was really good for me to see how the economic status affects so many things.
2. How will this experience affect you as a teacher?
This experience will affect me as a teacher by allowing me to know that there are so many different resources available for me to use. It has allowed me to see that I need to become friends with the media center staff as well as the technology coordinator so that I can learn more about what is available in my school.

3. How did this experience change your thinking about the use of technology?
I learned that any difficulty may be due to the availability of the technology at the school. Once it is in the school the resources are available to all teachers. Through this experience I changed my thinking by realizing that it is not hard to get access to technology from the school for use in the classroom. With technology being so easy to get access to, it would be easier to use in the classroom and engage students in a technology rich way.

Filed Work #3

This week we played another digital story. It was on pyramids in Ancient Egypt. It was a great way to start our lesson on pyramids. The kids really seemed to enjoy it and get into the subject. I thought that it went really well with our lesson.It was a great way to introduce our subject to the class. I would definitely use another digital story in our classroom.

Field Work Week 2

This week in the field we did a webquest with the students. The students were put into groups of five. Each group had a different role that they needed to fullfil. The students then went to the computer lab and completed their web quest on king tut. After the webquest the students needed to write a paper as a group on weather or not King Tut was murdered. The students then typed up their papers. This activity went really well. The students really seemed to enjoy. The teacher said that he really liked how well we intergrated literature with our lesson. We also had our supervisor come on the day that we thought this lesson and she did not have enough good things to say about it. I was really proud of this lesson and am glad that it went so well. I think that I will try to use more webquest in my future teaching.

Field Experiance

My first week in the field is almost over now. I was really nervous and excited going into it but now I am just excited. It has been a lot of fun! I have learned a lot about teaching this week. First I learned that you have to adapt and change lessons almost every time. The things that you thought would work really well and be lots of fun you could just tell that the kids were not enjoying it. I have learned that you just have to adapt to those situations. This week we used a digital story in one of out lessons. The kids seemed to enjoy it and I think that it really helped to engage them in the topic. It has been a fun and exciting week and I hope that I learn as much next week as I have this week. We are also doing a web quest next week so we will see how it turns out.