A Quest For Truth

In this WebQuest, students will be asked to explore truth on the internet while learning more about the 2012 Presidential candidates.  I chose to use QuestGarden and found it a fairly easy platform to work with.  You'll find the link below.  

A WebQuest Search for Truth on the Internet

Presentation Software Presentation

This went a little longer than I had hoped, so I hope people can still muster the courage to sit through the video. Anyway, for this assignment, I chose to finally figure out how to use the 'screen capture' function on Macs. I'm sure Windows probably has a similar feature. I also explored the use of Twitter in the classroom and created a short Prezi on that topic, the Prezi starts at about 2:30 mark of the movie if you get impatient.

Wibuax's Future

This assignment allowed to me to make use of some footage that has been taking up valuable space on my hard drive for far too long. It's a short piece on Wibaux, Montana. Wibaux is my dad's hometown. To ease export from Final Cut, the editing program I used, I dropped the quality quite a bit. Therefore, video quality is quite low. Sorry.

All content, other than the U.S. Census Maps and Google Map, is mine.

Rubric

I thought that many of our classmates designed great rubrics. After looking back through the discussion following our first stories, I thought that many people made good points concerning what goes into a great video. I tried to encapsulate some of the best ideas into my rubric. And I'm even reconsidering my point about credits. Credit where credit is due! I just wish there was a an easier way to do them so they don't appear as if I'm scrolling down in a Word document.