Even though I spent a lot of time on creating my WebQuest, I would have to admit it was a lot of fun to create. Even better, I learned so much about organizing pages so they are easy to navigate. Even better than that, I created an activity that I can and will use with my newspaper students in class next year.
The WebQuest I created allows newspaper students to explore the ethics of journalism through their meaning, application, and ultimately how they affect scholastic journalists, all to reach the point of writing an editorial policy for the newspaper. This will certainly deepen their understanding of the importance of the ethics and how they should be applied while working for a newspaper publication. This will also be more fun for them than reading about the ethics, dealing with one ethical dilemma scenario, and taking a quiz over the ethics. The product will have use and students will have learned far more together than on their own.
Now that I have finished this WebQuest, I am excited about putting together the Instructional Website and figuring out how to build my Publications course in Moodle. I'm not so excited about the Podcast, but I'm sure I will find a use for this in some realm of my Publications class. One more thing, in my Computer Apps. course I created an E-Portfolio for all of my Publications students to use so that they can organize their newspaper and yearbook documents online throughout th year and have all of their final products to use after the year is over, especially helpful to those planning on majoring in something journalism related in college. I've been wanting to create more of an online approach to class for a few years, so I'm excited to see it's finally coming together.
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