Focus Question: What are WebQuests and virtual field trips? are virtual field trips that engaged web-based teaching methods. Virtual field trips allow students and children to visit places all around the world as part of their studies.
Tech Tool: The Cave Web sites like these are great to grab the attention of students. If they have more hands on research and are able to go through pictures and truly get into the website it makes it easier for them to pay attention and get interested. The nice thing is that its a lot of facts and information shorten in a couple of paragraphs and we know how students love reading things that are short. By clicking some of the photos it takes them to other places in the cave and to view some of the amazing art work in the cave will get the creative juices flowing.
Chapter Summary: This chapter introduced resources such as bookmarking, social bookmarking and information alerts. We even use some of the book markings in the class such as delicious. This tool is very helpful for teachers that research information and are able to keep it in a safe area that they can pull up the information on any computer. Also Social bookmarking is used for group projects so when students are at home they can all work on the project together with out having to be there. And everyone has encountered an information alert at some time. When they are using their own computer any time something new for their system is available a little pop up comes on the screen and tells them about it, even with phones now with apps. Its great for teachers who are looking for something with google alerts and they type it in and want more information when they have it they will be let in on when the information is ready and it will alert them by email.
Maloy, Robert W. Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.
Check your first point - it looks like you are missing part of the answer to your focus question. It doesn't address webquests and first sentence doesn't make sense grammatically. Isn't the cave virtual field trip neat? Those kind of websites can be very relevant in lessons.
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