Thursday, May 7, 2009

Poetry Webquest

I am in class with you all at the moment and needed a break from working on the webquest. I know that I am making my webquest way more difficult then need be but I am sticking to my guns. Do you ever get an idea and then can't stop thinking about it? That is me at the moment. I find it a little difficult in this class to find plausible ways to encorporate technology into the grade I plan to teach. I want to teach kindergarten, and although I know computers, smart boards, and blogs are becoming evermore present; I don't know how they will navigate through a webquest. Maybe my doubts just come from my own insequrities when it comes to technology. I never grew up with video games or computers. I honestly used one computer program up until my junior year of high school, microsoft word. In my attempt to involve technology into the lower elementary grades I will be having students analyze poetry in new and differenet ways. I want gets to go beyond reading and become involve and attached to a poem, and its then I feel that they will obtain a true understanding and appreciation for poetry.

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  1. Crystal, you sound just like me! I am frustrated with my webquest and I think I am making mine too difficult as well. I also relate to you and Word being your soul use of the computer until junior year...except I was a senior. It's funny to see how far we've come and also how far kids half our age are.

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