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I would use a webquest in a middle school history class when you're assigning a project. To start, you can explain the background of a time or an era to the students so that they understand the period of which they have a project on. Then you can give examples of a project for them to do. To make it exciting, you can have them go out on an adventure to look up things about that period or have them interview people. Then you can use the webquest to give them resources and explain exactly what you want or expect out of the students, or their task at hand. You can help give them tips and ideas to do. Then at the end you can put the credits.

A really cool webquest I saw was about the weather. It was cool because it gave information on how to understand the weather and how to decide for yourself how the weather will be by watching it and understanding weather patterns. It was aimed at elementary level school children and I think it is a fun and useful webquest. It takes advantage of the web while also teaching the students about the weather in an interesting way.

I learned more about excel lately than I ever knew before. I am not a huge excel person because I've generally only used it when dealing with math and numbers which i am not a big fan of doing. I thought it was cool though all the different things that you can do on excel and I had no idea that it was so versatile. I think these skills will help me later on when logging grades or even when making crossword puzzles.