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What?

I am learning how to make a web quest using power point. I am performing a group assignment with my partner, Rachel, to come up with a useful complete lesson plan using the layout of a standard web quest.

So What?

As a teacher, this means that I am preparing to navigate my lesson plans in a different format. As a student, this means that I must learn to organize my lesson plans and call upon good examples that I make now for the future. My job is to make the good lesson plans now to look to later for guidance. As a colleague, this doesn't mean much to me today because my job is as a janitor, and I work alone, but in the future I will need to collaborate, and I could do that with web quests. We are doing this to be better future teachers, employees, and colleagues.

This can apply to me today in my other classes by organizing other presentations using this format. This can apply to my life in general because I can use these tools outside of school like at church, family activities, birthday presents, etc. It is a way to organize information, pictures, memories-- anything that is desired to be organized. This technology means that my schema is growing and creating more pathways to complete personal goals to continually improve. This will improve the life of my colleagues in the future in the same way that it will open up a new door to create lesson plans and other informational masses, but it will be different because there is room to be creative and unique within an organized layout.

Now What?

To my future students, technology is--their world. It means everything because it is everywhere and it is the key to accessing any past, current, or unique idea or information. My schema is changed by this information because my need to be have a technology supported classroom is becoming ever more obviously necessary. This changes the type of teacher I become in the future because I will be able to use Web Quest to organize lesson plans in a new innovative form that may appeal to students over other organizers. I can assign my students projects and assignments where the information can be accessed at home on how to complete the processes and remember the information to do so. They can be paired or in groups and can collaborate via previous tools taught to them like google documents.

This new information will help me be a better teacher because good teachers provide students with options and options they can understand and access. This information will help me be a better colleague because I will be less stressed about making copies and I will have time to make the kind of preparations necessary to be a confident and successful teacher. This information will help collaboration in the department because teachers can just type up their links the their web quest and it can be a resource for the entire district rather than even just the school. All these great lesson plans will just be floating around on the internet for anyone to access, and the school department can make a list of all these websites to help teachers give great lessons.

This information, I believe, will help teachers, like me, to be more confident through being better prepared. There will be less stress in the classroom, and there will be more synergy by creating more organized and efficient lesson plans.