Webquest

Today I presented my webquest which was over exploration of spanish countries. The students were to choose a spanish speaking country and reseach it find information over family, culture, food, currency, etc. Then after they researched their country, they had to create a presentation over powerpoint or prezi with at least 10 slides. I also created a powerpoint over Cuba using the webquest link. It took me a lot longer than I thought it was going to, so I would give the students a longer time to work on it than I had originally planned. I made modifications on the webquest to make it exactly how I would want to use it in my classroom. The objective is for all students to develop cultural awareness through researching a variety of countries.

Pamphlets

As a group we researched gender differences with technology, copyright dates, what we can and can't take off the internet as educators and also about environment and exposure differences related to technology. I learned alot about each including that educators can take anything off the internet as long as it is for educational purposes, you give the author credit, and you don't use to much of the material. I also found out that boys have better fine motor skills because they play a lot of computer games while girls like to design websites and decorate. Also, there is a debate of weather girls or boys are better with technology but we came to the conclusion that it really has a lot to do with exposure to technology not so much gender. Also, we need to be careful about what we take from the internet because it is now all copyrighted for some time now. Then after we gathered all of our information and researched our given topic- we created a pamphlet that we can use to help others to have a better understanding of copyrights and cultural, gender and economic differences.