Blog Journal 8

In the textbook, they mention the use of recorded books that students can use if they have trouble reading. The books are usually in their grade level and they can be used to help students that struggle to comprehend what they are reading but do better with hearing. For one of my classes, I am involved in service learning, so I go to a first grade classroom twice a week to help out a teacher. In that class, there is a wide range of readers, some better than others. I have noticed that a lot of times, the lower level students will sit down and listen to a story on tape, while other kids read it, and this helps them understand the main idea and catch on to details that they wouldn’t be able to if they were having to read it on their own. The point of this help is to catch them up to the other kids in hopes that they will soon be able to read the stories on their own.

During the WebQuest assignment, I had a bunch of ups and downs. I liked the idea of creating a website, its a new way to give students information about their work. However, I feel like this would only really be good if the assignment is something that is done over and over again. Maybe it was because of the topic I chose, but it seemed a little too much for the assignment, and it seemed like I could have put those instructions on a sheet of paper to pass out to students or even as a powerpoint. This assignment can be used in the future if I were to create my own business, as I would need a website for people to reach me, and through this I was able to be comfortable in adding and deleting pages.

I commented on Sheighlin’s and Mycah’s post 7!