LET: The Treasure Hunt Club

Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Hello everyone. Recently, I’ve been reading a book on games and learning. It’s called “Don’t Bother Me Mom: I’m Learning.” It’s by a man named Marc Prensky who has been promoting the use of games for learning for several years now. It seems that people are now starting to listen more seriously.

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Hello everyone.
Last year in preparing for a class I thought about using some video content from YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/) in my lessons. I felt a little uncomfortable with the idea of just linking to the YouTube site, however. I later learned that you can embed a player with a video on any web page and I thought it might be a good idea. In the end, this is what I did. Students loved the option of video and I was able to add some vocabulary support to my web page. Embedded video clips are really great but take up a lot of space on a page if you try to add a couple of them.

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Welcome back everyone. I hope the holiday season was relaxing for you and you are back in your best condition. This month I’d like to look at some emerging uses for a great tool. I think most LET members are familiar with the free internet-based phone service Skype already (http://www.skype.com/intl/ja/helloagain.html for the Japanese site).

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Hello everyone. This month I’d like to give you another column filled with odds ‘n ends, things that I have looked at recently (and some not so recently) but that I think LET members might be interested in. Over the holidays, if you have a little time, you may want to take a look at these sites.

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Hello everyone. I’ve written before about using the web for projects. This month I’d like to introduce two sites that are made for webquests. A webquest is similar to a treasure hunt. It requires students to visit several websites to find information. However, a treasure hunt asks students only to find answers to quiz questions. A webquest requires students to look more carefully at the websites and to use the content in making a report or presentation. Teachers can make webquests quite easily by setting a topic and providing students with a list of links. By choosing the sites, we can limit the amount of content students encounter and we can help them from getting “lost” in cyberspace. I’ll be introducing two webquests in this column, but you can find more information and even a tool for authoring webquests at The Webquest Page hosted by the Educational Technology Department at San Diego University. http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

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