Zunal

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Introduction:
Zunal is a Web 2.0 tool that I feel would be a great resource to use in my classroom. Zunal is a free on-line resource that allows teachers and studetns to interact through highly engaging lessons and discussions. It is easy to register and get started. Zunal provides an easy to read introduction that will allow you to get started in no time. Zunal is very user friendly for teachers and students.

Ways that Teachers can use Zunal in the Classroom:
Zunal can be incorporated in a variety of ways. Using Zunal in the classroom will allow the teachers and students to create and join multiple websites for many different purposes. You can create a classroom website, webquests, portfolios, and even discussion boards. One aspect of Zunal that I really like, was the organization and privacy tools that it has. Websites and lessons can be saved and organized in a user friendly way for teachers and students. It's privacy settings is ideal for the classroom, it allows children and parents to see only what you want them to view. The WebQuest would be something I would like to use on a weekly basis, Zunal provides hundreds of pre-made WebQuests as well as a step-by-step page for teachers to create their own WebQuest. I feel that Webquests are great for engaging students and allowing students to learn through investigation. The classroom Websites are great tools for all teachers when searching and finding lessons, activities, and ideas. Discussion boards are great ways to communicate to parents and students.

Additional Resources: These are a couple more websites that will be useful when using this tool.
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Thanks, Courtney Rhodes

Mattalue Ellis

I concur, Zunal is a highly effective tool that has proven to be user friendly, as well as, developed with a wide variety of teacher and student resources. I also like the privacy aspect of this wiki because it allows you to differentiate preferences to student and parents; furthermore, I feel that privacy is one of the most important aspects teachers need when using technology in the classroom. Having the ability to turn on and off certain permission rights with a click of a mouse it great!

Josh Boyd I am using Zunal to make my Webquest for this class and I love using it! Zunal makes it extremely easy to figure out how to make your Webquest which is good for me because I would have trouble figuring out how to make a Webquest without it. I agree that the privacy Zunal provides makes it an attractive website. The fact that teachers can control who sees the site is incredible because I do not believe that random people should be able to see student's work.

Nina Rygiol I, too, am using Zunal to make my Webquest for our upcoming assignment. While the lack of control over the overall visual aspect of the webquest is frustrating, it is extremely easy to use. I think students will be excited to navigate the page and I appreciate the step by step process of creation. Additionally, I think the site could even be used for student creation. Wouldn't it be cool to allow students to organize a webquest for one another? It would force them to locate trustworthy websites and acquire the knowledge they are asking other to find. Could lead to an all new form of assessment later in the year.

~Hope Sutton~ I love this site. I'm using it to create a webquest right now, and I plan to use it for future quests. I do agree with Nina that it takes some time and trial and error to get the page to look the way it does when you're actually editing it, but this is much better than trying to create one on your own. There are many things you can do utilizing webquest: assessment, technology lessons, website evaluations, reports, etc.