My Personal Technology Project

For my personal technology project, I would like to explore PicLits. This site provides pictures and words and it allows one to drag and drop words to form poems or narratives. This would help students who struggle coming up with topics to write about. It requires more abstract thinking, and it could engage students who normally struggle with the typical approaches to writing. In my opinion, this way of writing would appeal to many different kinds of learners.

I also would like to learn more about WebQuest. I think that it will be good tool for researchingas well as creating. This seems like a wonderful way of assessing students' mastery of a specific content area. Making a WebQuest could possibly be a test assignment at the end of the unit. Or, a teacher could utilize this resource for group projects. Each group could perform one of the WebQuest tasks pertinent to the subject matter being covered in class. After they have completed it, each group would be responsible for presenting what they learned to the class. This way, a lot of information could be covered and all of the students are responsible for learning and teaching.

I would like to explore both of these resources in depth for this project. I'm not positive how I could use both of them for the same assignment yet. As I begin to learn both of them in greater depth, I will look for a way to combine these two resources.