WebQuest

WebQuest

Your Role

___Efficiency Expert

___Affiliator

___Altitudinist

__X_Technophile

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Gorillas	In the WebQuest there are websites that the students can use to answer the given questions. Also to help with the "chart" they will make of the different stages in a gorilla's life. As well as the chart on the different types of gorillas.	I feel that when the students answer the questions they will just be doing a fill in the blank search.
Shakespeare	With this WebQuest students will have individual roles and teach eachother what they have learned on the websites provided. The students have to have a scrapbook (I believe they can do an electronic one), a powerpoint, and a scene or sonnet. There are links to different websites for information.	It does not have any questions for the studnets to answer to show they are understanding the material, and heading in the right direction for there projects.
Earthquake	There is websites to help the students head in the right direction with their research. The students will also be using PowerPoint presentaions.	This WebQuest does not use a lot of technolgy it is all hands on work.
Foreign Country	The students will be using the internet, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint.	The students are not being exposed to as much technology as they could be.
Waves & Sound	The are certain websites the students are supposed to use.	Students are not creating anything themselves, and do not have free range on the information. There are only certain websites they can use.

Photo analysis

This could be used in my math calss for velocity and force.
1.How much force is needed for the cheetah to prople himself forward?
2.How long would it take the cheetah to travel 6 miles at 40mph?
3.How fast is the cheetah going if he travels 5 miles in 10 minutes?
4.How fast would you have to run to out run a cheetah?

Working Obama

People	Objects	Activities
Obama	Boat	Walking
BP Employees	Ocean	Smiling
	Cement Barriers	Watching
	Flag

Concerned Obama

People	Objects	Activities
Obama	Books	Scowling
	Shirt
	Button

Chapter 6: Analyzing Students' Multimodal Texts: The Product and the Process

1. Why do educators need to be careful about terms like "Digital Native"?

Educators 9need to be carefull when using the term Digital Native because there is so many varying degrees of "Digital Natives". There are so many degrees because not everyone has the same exposure to technology.

2. What outcome occurs when young people are encourage to transform their understanding of particular topics by designing a multimodal text?

When students are encourageed to transform their understanding of particular subjects to a multimodal text there is always a positive outcome.

3. You may skip the section titled "Context for the Project".

4. What was the goal of the project in terms of product?

The goal was to track the development of the participants multimodal literacies over a two year period, and comparing the first and the last products made.

5. What was the goal of the project in terms of process?

The goal was to gain a deeper understanding of how multimodal texts were created, specifically when the students were working at computers in pairs.

6. How were the participants for the study selected?

The students who were selscted all studied the subject of Study of Society and the Environment (SOSE).

7. Describe the task students engage is for the purpose of this study?

The students created two websites.

8. Explain how the researchers compared the student created multimodal texts?

Which students worked collaboratively in pairs, had fully completed the task, and the video screen data recordings were intact and complete.

9. What differences in Jenny's PowerPoint presentation do you find the most interesting?

10. How is working together on a computer unlike working together using a pencil and paper?

Working with a computer in pairs differs from using pencil and paper because you can do so much more on a computer and do things faster.

11. What was interesting about student's behavior as they collaborated on a task at the computer?

They all had different ideas when it came to what was a priority.

12. What can teacher learn about designing learning activities that involve the creation of multimodal texts from this study?

13. According the the conclusion of this study, what do student need to learn in order to successful complete a multimodal text construction?

Students need to develop their reflective and evaluation processes in relation to a task. Also they need to have traditional skills for sucessful task completion.

14. Are you surprised by the conclusions drawn in this study?

No because there is such a broad generalization for Digital Natives, and even though this was a study and the students only had an alloted amount of time some still didn't finish when they were supposed to. I think this is because of otrher factors in the students lives.

August 14, 1945
Why was this man kissing this woman?
Where are they?
What events were taking place that day?