WebQuest Builder – Blog

As a former English department head and K-12 librarian, I am familiar with the stressors of meeting all of the Michigan’s benchmarks and standards. I have worked for years with other teachers to ensure the education of the students at my school is of the highest quality meeting the highest standards. As Michigan developed the state curriculum, I searched for ways to meet these expectations while continuing to give students a well rounded experience. As a librarian, I worked diligently to make infusing research into content areas seamless. Through the WebQuests, I hope to reach an even broader audience. To make this as easy as possible for overworked teachers, I have included lesson plans showing how each WebQuest ties into the GLCEs. The added bonus for educators is that WebQuests also meet most of the state’s technology requirements. With a subscription, you not only gain access to the WebQuests and lesson plans, but you also gain the ability to track the usage of your students, helping meet the technology requirement and the documentation the state expects.

As the state tightens the budget many schools are making cuts anywhere they can. Sadly this means for many schools that their librarians are being cut. With the loss of the librarians, teachers loose a valuable resource. It is my hope to help bridge that gap for teachers until the budget crunch ahs settled and librarians are back in every school. As a school librarian at a K-12 school, I am among those cut. With how our economy is and my desire to stay in Michigan if at all possible, I have poured my knowledge and experience into these WebQuests. I am greatly concerned about the ability of teachers to maintain a high level of education for Michigan students as we face more and more cuts. It is evident from what we have seen this year that teachers will be asked to do more with less, so I am trying, through the WebQuests to provide teachers for a way to work smarter. Good education is a team effort, with the lack of a librarian on site as part of the team, it becomes the teacher’s responsibility to fulfill that role as well. That is where we come in. I am here to be your librarian. This is the first in my plans of library services that I will provide through our web site. I hope that my efforts to provide you with guided research correlated to the Michigan State GLCEs will relieve some of the additional strain the budget crunches are placing on you. I am happy to have any feedback on additional ways I can meet your needs as an educator through this site. Please let me know what is working and what you would like to see to make it work better for you.

As the state tightens the budget many schools are making cuts anywhere they can. Sadly this means for many schools that their librarians are being cut. With the loss of the librarians, teachers loose a valuable resource. It is my hope to help bridge that gap for teachers until the budget crunch ahs settled and librarians are back in every school. As a school librarian at a K-12 school, I am among those cut. With how our economy is and my desire to stay in Michigan if at all possible, I have poured my knowledge and experience into these WebQuests. I am greatly concerned about the ability of teachers to maintain a high level of education for Michigan students as we face more and more cuts. It is evident from what we have seen this year that teachers will be asked to do more with less, so I am trying, through the WebQuests to provide teachers for a way to work smarter. Good education is a team effort, with the lack of a librarian on site as part of the team, it becomes the teacher’s responsibility to fulfill that role as well. That is where we come in. I am here to be your librarian. This is the first in my plans of library services that I will provide through our web site. I hope that my efforts to provide you with guided research correlated to the Michigan State GLCEs will relieve some of the additional strain the budget crunches are placing on you. I am happy to have any feedback on additional ways I can meet your needs as an educator through this site. Please let me know what is working and what you would like to see to make it work better for you.

This site works diligently to ensure that the links to research and information sites found here for are reliable sources. It is a constant concern to ensure that the links are functioning and will take your students to information that is dependable. Teachers, administrators and parents can all rest assured that these links are checked regularly to ensure the safety of the students using the WebQuests. Sites are screened for reliability of information as well as for appropriateness of the information found there. Each WebQuest is designed to be appropriate for the age level that correlates with the Michigan State GLCE grade level for that topic. Each WebQuest is labeled with a grade level to guide teachers and parents to selecting the WebQuest that is best suited to the age of their students. Some topics have more than one WebQuest for this very reason. That way if a topic is touched on in multiple grade levels, the sites in the WebQuest are tailored to be appropriate for the specific grade level.

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