Ch.6 Teaching with Educational Websites and Other Online Resources

Focus Question: What are WebQuests and virtual field trips?
They are innovative and engaging Web teaching methods that can be used for all ages. WebQuests are virtual pathways where students select a group of preselected websitesin order to explore some educational topics by accessing online visual information. Virtual field trips allows the faculty and students of the school to visit places around the world with a academis purpose.

Tech Tool Link: The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-D'Arc

This website allows you to experience an online virtual field trip like if you were literally walking in it. It gives you the privilege to take a tour through this subterranean world and link on the different facts and pictures from the entire cave system. I believe this can bring lots of interest to the students, allowing them to experience the beauty of any place through tehir favorite thing to do, and it is surfing the web.

Summary and Conclusion: There are certain curriculums and policies that teachers need to follow in a state in order to prepare and teach their lessons to students. By managing their information online, teachers can apply the proper curriculum and be able to engage the students in their teaching. This information is being managed through educational websites, in which in this chapter they are examined with the purpose of always providing the students with the proper education.