MUE6696 Amber Watkins

Blog Post #7 Topic: Summarize and reflect on what you've learned this week. ------------------------------------             In all teaching situations there must be a way to monitor student progress and growth. The instructor me have vast experience and wisdom, however, remembering everything a student does and has done in the past requires some form of assessment. Though the assessment may not always need to be formal, it does need to be, that is to say, assessment must occur. Many assessment tools, strategies and methods have not changed over the years, however methods for student learning have changed drastically. Technology has accelerated not only the amount of information a student can learn because of increased access but it also provides educators an accelerated, accessible vehicle for assessing students. Online quizzes and assessments afford a vast number of conveniences to both the educator and the student. During...

Blog Post #6 Topic: Summarize and reflect on what you've learned this week. ------------------------------------             As we look towards the end of this class, it is time to take an in-depth look at our final project: the WebQuest. WebQuests, which are described as “inquiry-oriented activities in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet” were invented by Bernie Dodge and Tom March back in the mid-1990's. For our final project, we will be developing a WebQuest that we can use in our own classroom. Google Sites, the website building tool offered by Google, will be the accessible software used to create and share our project. https://sites.google.com/site/studentwebquesttemplate/             WebQuests consist of several main components. These components include an introduction, task, process, evaluation...