Today I did a webquest with my students, with thanks to Robyn for making it happen. We went ot the computer lab and the students were totally engaged in the webquest--much more so, I think, than if they all went to google and were just searching random sites from there. The way that site is set up -- http://robynmoller.googlepages.com/animalfarmwebquest -- where the students know which sites to go to for which questions, and where students can feel confident that the inforamtion can be found on those sites, was really helpful.
It was interesting to be in the computer lab and to have the students all doing their own thing on their computers. At first, I was all prepared to walk around to help and answer questions or ... something, but pretty soon it became clear that I was irrelevant except to dismiss the students at the end of class and tell them to finish the section they were on for homework if they didn't already finish it.
Given that I said something totally stupid and messed something up in my first class today, it was nice to feel totally irrelevant and know my kids were just fine without me.
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