Teaching and Learning in Internet-based environments

After reading both articles, I felt a little bit more informed on some of the technologies that are available.  I'm not saying I didn't know what all of them were but the quality characteristics was something that I hadn't thought completely about until viewing the table of information.  With so many choices to decide and pick which would be the used for an online experience is rough.  Of course, choosing the easy pick of WebQuest wouldn't be the right thing for this blog.  The one that caught my eye of course was the educational gaming, which the only reason it did because of the word 'gaming' is in the title.  Although after visiting most of the resources links it's clearly a good choice.  

I finally decided on a technology that I could see being very valuable to my current position, and help out many others in the college.  The Career Planning Tools experience would be something that many of our students, faculty and staff could benefit from.  How wonderful it would be to have a site where our students could access career opportunities, house information to employers, and with the collaboration tool the students could interact with even our alumni who may have potential career position openings.  By having a central application that students and faculty can interact and post resources it could be a wonderful tool for many of our students.

As for a technology that would be harder to use, I'm leaning toward Online resource validation.  To be honest, it wasn't what I was thinking it was all about and still not 100% sure even after going to the links provided.  I'm assuming that it's purpose is to have students confirm that the data that they are using is correct and the quality of the content is high.  By enforcing that not one site has all the answers and to many the one source is all they will need and use.  So, having to dig into an item and validate the information at several resources will be tough but really needed.  I can see this extremely important for papers and how the teacher's role would play a major part in helping the student.  I can only imagine a student giving a presentation on his topic to only find out that his information that he presented to the class was incorrect.  That would be extremely embarrassing and upsetting for the student.  But as mentioned above, to avoid this from happening it will take extra time and work to validate the data which in long run is well worth the time.