This week my exploration into technology for the library for my LIS 568 class took me to Wonderopolis.org. What an experience! I am so glad I started out EASY!! This was definitely my speed. This website had me hooked for HOURS!! I'm not kidding, I lost sleep over this. I'd click on one item that had me curious and an hour later, I was deep into a subject I didn't know I was curious about! This website has been around since 2010.
User friendly? Just point, click and be transported to a place where you can find answers!! Shark week is coming up in July and there were 4 different questions on sharks! Do they all live in saltwater? Why do they have nostrils? Which one is the slowest? If I didn't have these questions before, I Do Now!! So there went another 3 hours of my life. The answer to the question is yes. If my old self can navigate to these shark questions and yes I know the answers now! But if I can navigate this site, so can you! You can even submit a question. It is a fascinating site!
Now I'm questioning if I cheated. Did I cheat in my class this week? No I don't think I did. I clicked on a few different links that were offered in the readings and I chose Wonderopolis.org because I found it fascinating, interesting and I was not only able to use the site easily, but I could see myself putting the shark questions up to the class in a library and drawing them in! You need a hook to catch their attention, especially elementary kids, so put a shark in front of them and ask them WHY do sharks have Nostrils!!???
So, big bonus points to wonderopolis.org for being user friendly and for pulling me in and I learned stuff and lost several hours of my life! Worth it!! So yes it was great for me to use, and gave me ideas on how to show this technology to elementary kids in school libraries. Also good for use in high schools and integration into the classroom where teachers assign papers and students choose topics and this could be a fun resource for them. They may not do reports on sharks and their noses, but it definitely put a smile on my face! 😊
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