Web quest/ Surface Computing Video

Web quests
This week we learned what a web quest is and how it can be used in the classroom. The web quest assignments seem interesting to me. I remembered doing them in high school and wondered how it could be used with Elementary students. I realized quickly that Elementary students would probably find it more useful and fun than I did in High School. A web quest is a way to research a topic using the internet, it can be very fun and interactive if put together right. We are going to use power point presentations to put our web quests together making it interactive and easy to navigate for our students. It should be fun.
We wrote our outline for our grades in our groups this week. This proved to be a hard thing for my group because we had so many ideas and we wanted to incorporate them all into one web quest for our students but decided it could be too much information. It was good to sit down and write out the outline in a story board form because we would see exactly what would work and what needed to happen to move onto the next tasks.
I would use web quests in my classroom as more of an exciting new game. I plan to teach younger grades and I can really see that age group getting into the web quest like it was a game. I think implementing it as a game or activity would help them really get engaged. It would be a fun, interactive activity to help them learn new subject matter and even navigate through the internet and the slides of the power points. Technology is here and we will need to help our students learn how to use it even at the earliest in Kindergarten.

Surface Computing
I love this! I have been interesting in this sort of technology and totally mystified by it for the last couple of years. You can see the new touch screens on television shows such as NCIS and I truly didn't believe it was possible when I first saw it. I thought that it was a made up, photoshopped device they used for the show. But it is real, Awesome! Can you imagine how innovated this will make our schools? If every class had hands on technology like this, super quick, super techonology, we could teach fast, engaging material! Awesome!