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Teaching Through the World Wide Web June Workshop 2002 – (Schedule) |
Day 1 – Basics, Your Own Web Page, and Internet Issues
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Experience an
online quiz on the basics at Funbrain. Log in as a student with the secret work puddlepie. You can sign up to create online materials
and receive student feedback via e-mail.
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Favorites (or Bookmarks)
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Searching
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In
Search of the Perfect Search Engine -Tech Learning article
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Seven Steps
Toward Better Searching - activity
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Four Nets for Searching
- activity using Google
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Test your Searching
Skills – activity
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If you use Google as your
main search engine, you might want to install the Google toolbar to your
IE. Simply go to Google, find Google Toolbar
and follow directions for installation.
It will leave you with a Google search right on your toolbar without
having to go to Google each time.
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Teacher Site Examples and Guidelines for
Web Pages
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Creating a Web Page in Word and Clipart for Web Pages
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Check out tutorial:
Getting
started on the WWW or find others on my tutorial
page
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Kids, Safety, and Ethics in
the Digital Classroom - Links for copyright, ethics, safety, and Web
evaluation.
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The Educator's Guide
to Copyright and Fair Use – Article (Education World)
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Copyright with CyberBee
– Flash will not work on network but will on laptops.
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Site Evaluation –
Kathy Schrock supplies several useful forms and articles about Web
evaluation. Students need to evaluate
whether a site is worth using. Who is
the author? From where does the site originate? Is the information current and
correct? Does it apply to my needs? Does it show bias? Etc.
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Ten C’s for Evaluation Web
Sources
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A Teacher’s Guide to Plagiarism
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Using the Internet in Your Classroom Video - The
Web site that goes along with our Internet video series can be found here. Look for articles, activities and resources that go along with
each video. Today’s is #4.
Day 2 – Review, Some New Topics and WebQuests
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Exporting favorites. It’s possible to collect favorites to send someone or transport
to another computer. Use File/Import
and Export and follow the wizard.
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Other
questions from yesterday?
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Resources to
explore
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Newsletters and Mail
Lists – a great way to get news, ideas and communicate with other teachers
– sign up for a couple to give it a try.
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Communicate with someone who knows…ask an expert
sites…another.
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Visit an online text at Beyond Books. Login as user: testing with password: tryme.
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101 Ways to Use the Internet
in Your Classroom – a pdf file
q A 24 hours free channel on broadband airs teacher professional development programs. Check it out. See the schedule for today.
q Check out the Video Gallery
at GLEF.org. You’ll need to download
Quicktime to view.
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What to do
with a digital camera in the classroom. More ideas.
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Neat idea
combining research and a camera!
q Tips from Kodak on digital
images.
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Check out the Public
Technology folder in e-mail for some examples, tips and templates.
q Want
to try an online chat with other educators?
Go to Tapped In and check out
their calendar.
q A WebQuest is an inquiry-based
activity in which most but not necessarily all of the information needed is
found on the Web. They are designed to focus on using information rather
than looking for it, and to encourage thinking rather than just
researching. Bernie Dodge developed the model in 1995 at San Diego State
University.
q My list of WebQuest links with many examples.
q WebQuest Storyboard
– Helpful aid
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Web Task Design
Worksheet – Helpful aid
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The Web site that goes along with our Internet
video series can be found here. Look for articles, activities and resources
that go along with each video. Today’s
is #6.
Day 3 –
Spending Time on your Personal Goals and Telecollaborative Project video
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Did you get a chance to check out some of the materials
I had available and subscribe to some?
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Did you get a chance to try the digital camera or
digital video camera?
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Anyone interested in the scanner? We could take a “field trip” to my office
and give it a try!
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Here’s a list of our Tech
Library items. Look it over;
perhaps you’d like to borrow something for next week.
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Check your goals; have we covered things
pertaining to them? If not please ask!
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Had enough yet?
Here’s another great listing
of technology ideas and resources for teachers.
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Would you like to explore Blackboard? Link to their K-12 demo server and log in as
jfaculty with password jfaculty to look around. They also have a training center. I’ll be attending a workshop for this at the
end of the month and will present it to you in the fall.
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Would you like to experience Encarta
Class Server? Log in as a student
named Baker, Charlie, David, Frank, Gopher or Helen with the password astudent. There are several practice quizzes to
experiment with. If you wish to
download the teacher portion to your laptop, let me know. Those who have it may explore creating a
quiz if you wish.
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Haven’t used these myself, but you might want to
look at Field Trips.
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There are three basic types of collaborative
projects (interpersonal exchange, information collection analysis and
problem-solving activities. Dr. Harris
will discuss several of these in detail and show examples of some in
action. You can join existing projects
or develop your own. Some links to find project are:
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Dr. Harris
has a site,
which explains the topic in detail and a page
where the three types are explained, and broken down into sub-categories. She also provides a full resource page.
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The Web site that goes along with our Internet
video series can be found here. Look for articles, activities and resources
that go along with each video. Today’s
is #7.
q Please take what you’ve learned this week, share it with others and apply some new ideas and activities into your classroom! I hope you’ve enjoyed the experience.
J.
Callahan, MD Tech Coordinator
Berkeley
Preparatory School
June 2002