An Update to an Old Web Quest Assignment
I’ve been doing a lot of reading this summer. Some of the books that I’ve been reading this summer are books that I’ve read in the past but am revisiting because I’ve always found that I pick up new things the second or third time through. Two of those books that I’ve revisited this summer […]
Two Image-based Search Challenges to Use With Your Students
One of my favorite ways to reinforce the use of good search strategies to students is to show interesting pictures and have students try to make a long list of questions about what they see. Then I let the students try to find the answers to those questions. When they get stuck, I intervene to […]
Looking for Errors – A Lesson in Website Accuracy
In Saturday’s week-in-review I mentioned that NBC’s webpage about Olympic archery contains quite a few errors. I’ve been thinking about that a lot as I’ve watched the Olympic archery matches this week. Last night, it occurred to me that NBC probably has other niche sports pages containing errors. My guess is that we all have […]
My Favorite Internet Search Tips for Teachers & Students
Whether you teach students who are ten years old or forty years old there will be times when they turn to you and say, “I can’t find anything about this” while they are researching. In most cases the problem isn’t that the Internet doesn’t hold any information for them. Rather, the problem is that students […]