Sunday, November 9, 2008
Favorites
I read the article that talked about how teachers set up a favorites list and have the kids choose from that list of web sites to go to for research or any other project they were working on in class. I am curious about that and hope we get more information on how to manage that in the classroom. It could be a great way to limit what they use and to be sure that time in the computer lab is well spent. Also, setting a page up on my web site would be another great way to scaffold that research that younger kids do. I never thought of doing that but it is a great idea. Does anyone already do it? I would be interested in how it works.
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Hey Deb,
I do something similar to this in my class. I have a student links section on my personal website where I post site that pertain to my classroom curriculum. I also have a couple sites that are divided up into different math skills, with different activities. After I teach a lesson/skill, many times I will direct the kids to those sites and let them choose an activity. This is something I like to do for the first 10 minutes of computer lab, before we work on our projects. I also like to put a "favorite" website on my newsletter each week so parents have resources to use with the kids at home. It seems to work well and is focused. Hope this helps out.
Our media specialist has created a web page that has favorite websites listed by grades. She has set it as our computer lab's home page so the kids can access it right away. It's very helpful for us teachers too so we don't waste a lot of time getting to the websites we want to use.
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