SOME TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS IN TEACHING:
The WebQuest as an educational medium:
The Webquest, can be defined as a teaching strategy, Internet technology. According to Wikipedia, the WebQuest is a guided search method, in which almost all resources used from the Web. By using this tool, students learn to learn to make the research process, with a guide who can guide you.
Some outstanding features of this tool for teaching and learning are:
• A space for active participation of students, by providing an appropriate environment for achieving the educational objectives.
• is a tool of teaching, using innovative teaching strategies, through a directed study methodology where a guide-prepared material by the teacher-specified, tasks and activities that the student must perform.
• is evaluated at the previously established criteria to be considered for assessing learning.
is one of the essential support tools that teachers can use, especially when considering features such as asynchrony. It is important to have clear purpose of its use, the instructions for the development of tasks and activities, quality of resources used and the evaluation criteria.
On the other hand, the use of resources such as PHP in the development and publication of Webquest offers teachers the ability to create dynamic content and applications in a simple, friendly and intuitive. This is very important because we know that not all teachers have knowledge of programming, however, this type of facility the teacher performs a simple as providing general information about the WebQuest, choose the format, enter the information for each 6 parts of the WebQuest (introduction, task, process, resources, evaluation, and conclusion), to include other media such as images, etc.
Blogs and blog
A blog is a resource that allows a person or group, or organization to express their ideas and chronological immediately by sending of items remaining recorded in an ad-hoc page. The blog is a suitable tool for carrying out these activities.
The characteristic features of this tool are:
• Harnessing collective intelligence. Such tools provide interactive services on network and give users (eg students and teachers) to participate in a common project, drawing on the contributions of each participant.
• The user participation. Users (eg students) are free to participate at any time (within a certain range of time indicated by the teacher).
• Construction voluntary and cooperative. By giving freely their contribution, the participants cooperate and contribute to the social construction of knowledge.
• The constructivist approach. Participants are involved in the construction of knowledge because they are the protagonists and also learn by making use of the log.
• The teaching resources. This type of tool encourages the development of lifelong self-learning using the tools we offer, solving real problems in collaborative environments and motivators.
• The social character. The blogs encourage student participation and communication among themselves and with the teacher, building the knowledge and benefit the entire virtual community.
• The amendment of the information, which enables the teacher (administrator) to add, modify, customize and improve the information presented.
Bibliography:
UNAD, Diploma - Tools telematic, 2008.
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