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=Current Topics in Educational Communications and Technology﻿ ~ Individual Study=


 * Instructor:** Dirk Morrison





=805 Top 10 Big Ideas=

6. Online learning environments provide opportunities for student collaboration, exploration and reflection.
====7. Geocaching can be a challenging, collaborative, motivating, integrated activity that can be adapted to help students meet a variety of learning outcomes. ====

8. Variations of geocaching activities are being developed for a variety of educational purposes.
====9. It is beneficial to take advantage of online collaborative technologies and incorporate them into distance education courses and face-to-face classrooms to ensure that student online experiences consist of more than reading an electronic text book and regurgitating basic facts. ====

10. Geocaching is fun!
=Introduction to Geocaching= media type="file" key="Kim Hobbs Geocaching.wmv" width="455" height="455"

Hobbs Girls Geocaching Adventures
=Project=





=Resources=

[|Geocaching in the Garden ~ Saskatchewan Government House]
Hide and Seek GPS and Geocaching in the Classroom

Promoting Inquiry in the Gifted Classroom: GPS and GIS Technologies