Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Welcome to the Web

The 3rd and 4th grade project learning classes are doing some brushing up on their web skills and safety the last couple of weeks.  We have been using a wonderful site called Welcome to the Web. This site from a UK -based teaching group is a great resource with printable handouts that the students can work through.  This is a really great way to also teach students to actually read the page that they are viewing on the screen.  We have had big issues with students having the answer flashing in front of them on the screen while they raise their hand to tell me that they can't find the answer.
Welcome to the Web uses a lot of tricks and tools to get students to interact with the page to find the answers to the worksheet questions.  Students have to mouse over, check boxes, and click particular hidden links to find answers and move along through the course.  Hopefully this along with my constant nagging of them to read the page first before panicking about not finding the answer and teach them to become more successful and independent users in the future as well as bone up on the safety issues we discuss in class on a daily basis.  We will be skipping the browser section b/c it is kind of outdated, but all of the other information is current and well organized to give the students the ability to discover new bits of info they might not have known before that we may have missed in class.

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