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WebQuest Connections

Today’s educators are being asked to incorporate critical thinking, cooperative learning, authentic assessment, and technology in teaching. WebQuests were designed to bring the most effective instructional practices together in a student-led, teacher-driven activity. The WebQuest model addresses a wide range of topics, goals, environments and learners; as well as technology applications.

Friday, July 14, 2006

Course Statistics (7/14)

Well, we've changed our stats with everyone getting into the course full swing. Here's the report I generated today from 7/10 to 7/14.

Average user session length: 00:20:11
Average user sessions per day: 16
Average user sessions per day on weekdays: 17
Average user sessions per day on weekends: 0
Most active day: July 12, 2006
Most active hour of the day: 12:00-1:00 PM

You aren't the night owls that I expected you to be, but this activity makes sense since most of you are teachers!

posted by Sandy Schaufelberger @ 9:27 AM  0 comments

Monday, July 10, 2006

Chicago Crimes Site

Thanks to a post from Cool Cat Teacher on her Westwood Wikispace, I just found an awesome website. ChicagoCrimes.org is a database that integrates the Google Earth database and the Chicago crimes. It gives a list of all the crimes committed in Chicago and also a map of the location of the crimes.

What would you do with a site like this in your class?

posted by Sandy Schaufelberger @ 5:01 PM  4 comments

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Course Statistics (So far)

Many of the participants in this class have never taken an online course, and it is my first time to teach totally online. I ran a course statistics report today in WebCT and collected data that might interest participants. Not everyone has logged into the course yet, which is totally expected since we don't start until Monday!

Here are the stats I can measure, and I'll repeat this post as we move through the course.
Total user sessions: 14
Average user session length: 00:08:02
Average user sessions per day: 2
Average user sessions per day on weekdays: 2
Average user sessions per day on weekends: 2
Most active hour of the day: 9:00-10:00 PM
Least active hour of the day: 5:00-6:00 PM

Looks like we have some night owls in the group! I'd like to know what time you normally access or plan to access the course information? Please post your response.

posted by Sandy Schaufelberger @ 12:27 PM  4 comments

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Extra Credit Available

I'd like to build a "Great WebQuests" list with examples of projects that adhere to the model we're studying for elementary, middle and high school levels. The class wiki site already has a page set up for Great WebQuests. If you find an example that you'd like to submit for the site, post a comment with the URL and grade level and I'll review your suggestion. If your recommendation follows the SDSU model and invokes understanding from students, then I'll post it to our class wiki site and give you 5 extra participation points. Limit of 3 recommendations per person please. If you don't have a Blogger login, you'll need to include your name with your post for credit points.

posted by Sandy Schaufelberger @ 1:10 PM  2 comments