Jun 14 2008
What happened when i tried a WebQuest with my years 5/6 Prac. Class
Just wanting to share my experience with WebQuests in the primary classroom.
During my last practicum i tried to have my class work on a WebQuest to support their unit on Antarctica. I found what i thought was a useful WebQuest at home and worked through it on my home PC without any dramas.
However, when it came to school it was a different story as a few issues came to the forefront.
Firstly, even though i had printed out the URL for each student some found it difficult to copy it exactly as it was quite a long web address. As a result i good 15 minutes were wasted going around helping individual students to find the problems in their address.
Secondly, and more significantly was the problems that arose when some sites would be blocked by the department filter on some computers but not on others. Therefore some students were able to access the sites whilst others couldn’t. This however, was rectified by having those students who were able to access the information to share it with the rest of the class.
This experience however taught me about the importance of testing classroom activities on department computers before have students attempt the activity.
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