This was very painful for me. I guess it is not something I did not already know: I do not know much about searching the web myself. I took a very long time to do this assignment and I am not quite sure I did it right. I tried doing this all through the weekend and I was fortunate it was a three day. I found a lot of useful information and once again I came to conclude to be good with the computer I need to spend more time in front of it. I think I should be more comfortable myself with being a good searcher before I tell my students how to search. I think I would need to go through the lessons myself to feel a little more confident.
I did find a lot of helpful information. I enjoyed watching the google videos maybe because I am a very visual and auditory learner. The slide shows were a little confusing. One of the things that I liked very much because of the simplicity of it was the "google search posters" for the classroom I think I can refer to them myself. I definitely need to work on this a lot more before I can teach it. I would love to know of any more workshops on this particular topic.
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Hello Luisa,
ReplyDeleteI feel similarly to you. I wasn't expecting it to be so confusing or to take soooooooo much time. Well, it looks like only a few of us have completed it so I hope the rest of our class has a lot of time tomorrow night to get it done!
~Colleen
I also enjoyed the videos and got more out of them than just reading through some of the slides. I understood about narrowing the searches more than verifying my results. I don’t feel as confident about that. This assignment also took me a long time and I found myself review certain parts of the lesson.
ReplyDeleteLuisa,
ReplyDeleteI appreciated the videos, too. The CommonCraft video series are really cool-a great combo of basic info and visuals to match! Taking the test took me a lot longer than I thought it would-just going back and forth between windows was enough to drive me crazy! Once again, like you, it would be beneficial to spend more time learning...
Luisa,
ReplyDeleteThis assignment was painful for me as well, not to mention super-long. I like the implementation of the videos too, it broke up the detailed and relatively intensive readings. You spent a weekend, a three-day one on this assignment. I spent many hours. I guess we are putting in the time to learn a new skill and time is required for that :).