Lesson Plan

Creating a lesson plan in this class proved to be a valuable experience once is was all done and over with. Creating this lesson plan helped me to see how valuable technology can be at enhancing a students overall experience with the lesson as well as what they take from it. Using the various web 2.0 tools that we have learned about this far, will also prove to be a valuable resource, from having students use the tools themselves to integrating them into the classroom, I think that they will prove invaluable.

WebQuests

WebQuest were something that I was not familiar with at all before Tuesday, but now that I have looked at several and seen what use they can be in the classroom, they can be a value tool in helping students understand material as well as breaking up the normal class work and standard group work into something more fun. Another aspect that I like about this WebQuest is that the provide real world application, something that many students do not see in the science classroom. Many of these WebQuest show you just how and when you can and will use this in real life. Creating Webquests or using some that have already been created is something that I can see myself doing in my classroom. I think that they can serve as a valuable resource, as long as they are not over used, because if they become over used the novelty of them wares off and students begin to see them as just another mundane assignment.

Web 2.0

I am doing my web 2.0 project on delicious, a site that at first I thought had no real practical uses, but after working on the project I found out that it had many more uses than I thought. Delicious serves as a way to access your own person web browser for any computer, delicious also makes it easy to share interesting websites that you have found with your friends or anyone online who shares common interests with you. While I can certainly see the reasons for using it, delicious is not something that I see myself using on an everyday basis, but throughout this project I have looked at several other web 2.0 tools, and some of these I can see myself using in the future and I look forward to learning more about them and the way that they can be applied with in the classroom.