Journal # 5 Meet Harriet Tubman The Story of a Website

Taverna, P., Hongell, T., Reissman, R. White, C. S., Meet Harriet Tubman The Story of A Website

Learning & Leading with Technology .Volume 27, Number 6, 2000, Pgs.42-45,62.

This article explains to the students how to use computers to select a famous historical biography. The teacher will ask the students to talk about what kind of person this individual was and list their character traits and supporting facts. The teachers can take the students on two field trips where the students might obtain more in-depth understand of the person. The teacher can ask the students to identify important dates and events in the life of the person. The teacher can ask the students to use Kid Pix to illustrate one event per group of students during two 40-minute class periods. The computer teacher will create individual Web pages for each pair’s event. The students will be given directions on how to complete the project. The teacher will then guide each student to make a multiple-choice quiz about the person. The teacher can ask the computer teacher to select questions from the students’ quiz. Then the student pairs will be asked to prepare puzzles on the Puzzle maker Web site. The teacher will check for spelling and show the students how to save their puzzles. The teacher will ask the students to select objects significant to the historical person from clip art to use as navigational tools on the website. The teacher will ask the computer teacher to create teacher links and a class activity page to make the site useful for other teachers’. We need to get permission from any copyrighted sources to be listed on the website page. This will give all the students to participate in an in-class commemoration of events in the person’s life and important historical events. The teachers prepare activities that will help students make connections to the life of the person and make comparisons with the lives of two other famous people.

QUESTIONS:

1. Is it important for students to be involved with developing web sites to share?

The earlier we expose our learners to the computer technology the better it is for the future generations. This will prepare them for all their advanced technology and research they need to be involved with their education and career. When these students grow up they intern will be able to invent and come up with great new technologies.

2. How does the puzzle maker and the multiple choice quiz help the students?

When students use the puzzle maker and design the puzzles they will need to know the spelling words and their meanings this will help them improve their word power and vocabulary. Preparing the multiple choic quizzes and using different programs on the web will help our students to improve their comprehensive reading skills.