WebCam WebQuest

Teacher Introduction

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This is a webquest for educators who are building webquests for students using live video. The WebCam WebQuest was created with the belief that

Sharing others' perspectives on all matters in life is a positive thing.

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A live-video connection in the classroom is an excellent way to connect our students to others - their perspectives, their knowledge, their friendship and much more.

 

The Students' Introduction pages are located at:

Student Introduction Page 1

Student Introduction Page 2

Live Video in the Classroo

In this WebCam WebQuest, we will exploit 4 different applications of live video in the classroom. These are:

Bring public places into your classroom
Take your students out of the classroom

Thousands of webcams at places like the Panama Canal, Niagra Falls, Times Square, Piccadilly Circus are all around the world and available to visitors via the internet. It is the ultimate "reality show." It is reality.
Bring a guest Mentor into your classroom
The HS English class may invite a poet into the classroom.
A NASA engineer talks to a HS Science class.
The same engineer talks to a 2nd grade class of explorers.
An architect explains to 11th grade Trig students why Princess SOHCAHTOA (sine/cosine/tangent) is important in real life.
Bring an "absent" student into the classroom
It is now easy to keep our students connected to classroom activities even when they cannot be there physically
Connect your students with another classroom (anywhere in the world)
Classroom Partnerships, (like twinned-cities and pen-pals) offer tremendous opportunities to build inter-cultural relationships with other classrooms around the world. Video, audio, application sharing and other cost-efficient technologies make collaborative and cooperative projects a wonderful means of sharing a vision between groups of students who might otherwise never meet. Of greater importance perhaps is exposure to and appreciation for each other's perspectives and values.

I expect that there may be new categories, not forseen by me that others will want to add.

 

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JG Notes for development:


The purpose of the WebCam WebQuest is to exploit the use of live video in the classroom. In the WebCam WebQuest, we will:

  1. Identify various "scenarios" for using webcams in the classroom teaching
  2. develop lessons using WebCams, curriculum
  3. survey thousands of webcams worldwide, teaching
  4. build your own "reference collection" of relevant webcams (relevant to the subject and grade that you teach) curriculum repository
  5. configure various models for using webcams in the classroom technical
  6. create a budget for various configurations admin
  7. identify other issues of importance such as: security, privacy, copyrights, permissions, school rules, legal matters, et al admin

 

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