Day 22

Creating a webquest allows a teacher to create media products; it allows a teacher to understand and utilize the most appropriate media creation tools, characteristics, and conventions. Creating a webquest also allows a student to understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expressions and interpretations in diverse multi-cultural environments.

Day 21 Webquest made using Google Sites

Webquest

As a future educator creating a webquest helps me to customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

Day 20

Here's a link to my webquest


Mostly I changed the images on this Webquest to be more interesting and reflect more of the beautiful art and sculpture associated with Greek Mythology. This meets the rubric standard stating that appropriate and thematic graphic elements are used to make visual connections that contribute to the understanding of concepts ideas and relationships. Differences in type, size and color are used well and consistently. The CSO's met by this webquest are: RLA.O.12.1.07 demonstrate knowledge of and evaluate literary devices. - achetypes-allegory-antithesis-pace-satire-cadence-scansion-flashback-foreshadowing-
Freytag's pryamid(exposition, rising action, climax, falling action,catastrophe) and RLA.O.12.1.08 that students will use knowledge of history and cultural diversity, politics, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate on the meaning of texts to expand vocabulary and to draw connections to self and the real world.
Through studying Greek Mythology students will gain a deeper understanding of their modern day western culture in that it is from the greeks that all our culture descends from.

Day 19

I was the efficiency expert so I was concerned with time management and qaulity of project. I preffered the Underground Railroad project because it incorporated group cooperation on an individual level assigning each member of the group a specific task and role and to perform and fill. The ISTE standard met by this project is 2-D; the project allowed students to model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face to face virtual environments.

Day 18

Creating a digital story helps students to model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students and others in face to face and virtual environments.

Day 17

Creating a mini-biography is a fun and exciting way to develop comptencies in partnership 21st century skills. It allows a student to use technology to research, organize, evaluate, and communicate information.

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