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**Beginning of my Journey**
Hello All Visitors!!!!

My name is Shubhanshu Saxena and I am a physical therapist by profession. I completed my Bachelors in Physical Therapy from Indore, India in 2006. My college name was Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College which is located in central India and is 1000 Km away from my home town which is located in northern part of India. After completion of my degree I moved to the Pune (Western India) because of good job prospects there. I got job there in a Neuro specialty Hospital and Research Center and worked there for about 8 months before I got the opportunity to come to US and complete my higher studies. And that is how I came here at Lamar University and started my Masters in Kinesiology in fall 2007. I have only summers left to finish my non thesis project and after that I will be graduating in august.

From the EDLD 5306-Concepts of Educational Technology class, the best discussion I think is related to the web quest as this gives the best option to communicate and getting multiple solution of a problem at the same time.

“While as a group, student who undertakes a web quest interact and work together, each group member carries out a specific, meaningful role. Kund, R., & Bain, C. (2006). Web quests: Utilizing technology in a constructivist manner to facilitate meaningful learning. Art Education, 59(2), 6-11.

Web quests are online interactive modules that allow student in inquiry-oriented learning. It can be act as a micro world where students explore an issue in a learning environment. Research or discussion issue can be conceptual or contextual. Student works in a group and each group member carries out a different roles and then all the member pool in their respective findings and learning allowing everybody to gain that knowledge. Each role enable student to carry out their research from a particular perspective. After the pooling group formulate the research and propose a reflective solution. Advantage of webquests over traditional learning activities is to get multiple solution of the research problem.

The best blog entry I remember is the website evaluation summary which gives us whole lot of idea about the good and a bad website. The information is based on the evaluation of a high school website which has got many pros and cons in terms of delivering information to general population. http://shubhanshublog.blogspot.com/2009/02/website-evaluation.html

Creating google search engine is a unique experience which I have learned through this class. http://tinyurl.com/cz545n