Webquests!!! This week we began our POD work on webquests. Our division of labor was much more smoothly made than last time and our ability to share information through a GoogleDoc has just made life so much easier. Webquests are a wonderful way of collaborating because they can be shared so easily. Webquests are student based as well because, once the teacher has completed the set up, the child is left with a degree of flexibility. One thing my POD members and I recognized as we filtered through our subject matter options was that some lessons lend themselves more easily to webquests than others. Well, I should say, they all lend themselves easily to webquests but some make more sense. We were talking about punctuation for a couple minutes and thinking of the School House Rock video we could direct our students to before we realized that wait, punctuation is something that is just right or wrong. Something so straight forward does not have as many places to go with as something more like an opinion piece or a history topic that always has different sides and more and more to learn about.
This weeks video was so interesting. I'll admit to having been a little creeped out because of how similar some of the technology is coming to stuff I've seen on futuristic movies (and especially on ship with lazy fat people in Wall-E). Surface computing wow! I was impressed at the beginning with multi touch interfacing then it kept going. The most impressive, and not just flashy but seemingly most applicable was the quick use of wireless technology. The surface computer picked up information from the wireless camera and had it on the I-Pod in seconds. The way the scientists looked into the future and the many possibilities was intriguing but again, a little trippy!
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