By: Jamie Bunting and

Michelle O’Callaghan

Chapter 8Selecting and Integrating World Wide Web Resources, Including

Designing Online Instruction

The “Ten C’s” provide criteria to consider in evaluating Internet resources.

- Content - Continuity- Credibility - Censorship- Critical Thinking - Connectivity- Copyright - Comparability- Citation - Context

Educational Website Review Guide

Documentation and Credibility

Content

Audience Appeal and Suitability

Ease of Use, Navigation, and Accessibility

User Interface and Design

Educational Website Review Guidelines

Portal SitesContent Resources

Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial StudiesArts

Experience SimulationsResearch Tools

Harvesting Information

Provide links to a great variety of educational resources, from very general to topics specific

Portal sites that contain teacher tools contain lesson plans, teacher discussion boards, and links to other support materials

Examples: Discoveryschool.comhttp://school.discovery.comEducation Worldwww.education-world.comEdupuppywww.edupuppy.com

Portal Sites

Sites that provide some type of content information

National organizations, research institutes, or even individual Internet users maintain these sites

Can be used as a supplemental or enrichment resource or can supply the backbone of a series of lessons

Content Resources

Language ArtsReadWriteThink

www.readwritethink.orgInspirational Poetry Online: A Guide to

Internet Resourceswww.poetry-portal.com

Vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary masteryhttp://www.vacabulary.com

Content Resources

MathematicsIlluminations

http://illuminations.nctm.orgCool Math

www.coolmath.comCuriousMath.com

www.curiousmath.com

Content Resources

ScienceEarthSLOT

www.earthslot.orgFranklin Institute Online

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/welcome.htmlVolcanoworld

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu

Content Resources

Social StudiesAmerican Civil War Homepage

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

Digital Historywww.digitalhistory.uh.edu

Geography Zonehttp://www.geographyzone.com/new/index.php

Content Resources

ArtsMetropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.orgPlay Music

www.playmusic.org

Content Resources

Through online communication, students can experience what they cannot see in person

Pictures and stories bring remote events and foreign parts of the world to vivid life through the computer screen

Examples:Global Online Adventure Learning

Site (Goals)www.goals.comThe Jason Projectwww.jasonproject.org

Experience Simulations

Answerswww.answers.com

Educator’s Reference Deskwww.eduref.org

Google Scholarhttp://scholar.google.com

Research Tools

Complete works of art are not just for the eyes of parents and peers anymore

There are online sites for students to post their papers and other workThe Virtual Refrigerator Door: ages 2-18

displays artwork by artist namewww.educationindex.com/weaselworld/fridge.html

Cyberkids: ages 7-12 publishes written workswww.cyberkids.com

Planting Information

Collaborative work opportunities

Sites available to work with other classes world wideEducation World’s Collaborative Projects

www.education-world.com/projects/index.shtml

Global SchoolNet Internet Projects Directorywww.gsn.org/pr/_cfm/index.cfm

Cultivating Information

Sites can create puzzles for the content area or just generate puzzles

Astronomy for Kids Puzzleswww.dustbunny.com/afk/puzzles

Fact Monster: The History of the Crossword Puzzle

www.factmonster.com/spot/crossword1.html

Puzzle Sites

As a supplement, requiring students to log on at home for homework, keeping information for a lesson on a class website or using the internet to find conduct research for class

WebQuest: http://webquest.org

Online district information, informational websites from school districts for parents

Online Instruction

“the delivery of the educational process to receivers who are not in proximity to the person or persons managing or conducting the process” (Lewis, Whitaker, & Julian 1995)

Feeling of being part of a class from anywhere

Option of flexibility and courses not provided by school

Distance Education

Teachers feel relationships are stronger

Teachers feel they lose face time

Teachers feel working with other teachers is harder

Teachers find it hard to take their ways of teaching and duplicating them online

Distance Education

Mental Plan

Audience- Who do I want the attention of?

Types of Information- Is it information that my audience will enjoy?

Presentation Strategies- How should my information be presented?

Creating A Website

Design ProcessStudy- Look at other sitesSketch- Imagine your pagePlan the Navigation- Create a simple user-friendly

pathPlan the Organization- Keep records of page titles,

sources and reasons, source for graphics, size and type of graphics, width of horizontal lines

Plan for Accessibility- For students with disabilities, students with slower connection, type of hardwareAccessible Quick Tips:

www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips Accessible Compliance:

http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp

Creating a Website

Involve StudentsTeaching through using the internet

Students might be able to create one better than adults

Complete process can be a valuable cross-curricular project

Creating a Website

The Development Process

Web Editing Software- allows construction of attractive and effective web pages complete with multimedia elements

Productivity Software- new productivity tools provide option to save documents as a webpage

Creating a Website

The Development Process

Online Web Editors- wizards are provided for step by step creation

Course Management Software- used to either create professional-quality course supplements or convert entire courses to online format to be offered at a distance

Creating a Webpage

Server Storage

Local Server Space- procedures f or hosting individual classroom web material

Hosted Server Space- public and educational websites offer free web pages and subscription-based hosting

Creating a Webpage

Check your siteHave someone else “proofread” your

site

Update your siteChecks your web links

Improve your siteAccommodate new ideas

Maintaining A Quality Website

The World Wide Web is a source of unlimited resources

Teachers can try exploring how to design web based instruction

Software advances make creating a web page easier

Keep up on your new web page.

Rewind and Recap

Bitter, Gary G., Legacy, Jane M. Using Technology In The Classroom. Seventh Edition.

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