I used technology in the form of blogspot.com when I first started teaching. I posted websites that students were supposed to use in research so everyone in the computer lab went to my blog and then clicked on the links they needed from there. That made research a lot easier than writing a web address on the board and having students copy it down and then type it in. If that were the case again, I am looking forward to trying Tinyurl.com. I do, however, find the scavenger hunt to be useful because it organizes multiple websites that the students need to utilize in 1 location without having to click around. I can post the document on weebly and students can look it up and use the links from there. Is it possible to have them upload a document to weebly as a form of submitting it? Otherwise I might have to get them started on skydrive...although Mr. Scott said we were missing 1 part at school to make that function properly so I'll have to check into that. I have a colleague that is doing an English class all online with submitting work perhaps she has some pointers.
The downfall of this comes with trying to get students to computers they could use. The majority of students said they had multiple computers at home, but rarely used them for homework so I could not rely on this to be a homework assignment. I also think at the high school level in social studies this is a lot of reading based questions. It would take a lot of preparation to add in video links for them to check out and whatnot. I wonder how long it will take the students to complete and I would like to see some other examples of how to do social studies scavenger hunts. |
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