We've put together some sites to help you study the Web by using the Web! Searching the Internet: The ILT provides links to Educational Subject Guides, which provide an excellent alternative to general search engines. Some of the better guides include MarcoPolo (and their Search Engine) providing the best quality-web-based resources for teachers, Kathy Schrock's Guide to Educators with printouts to use with parents, an internet lesson designed for young students, and lessons for internet searching, The Adventures of CyberBee, Larry Magid provides a discussion on using the internet or just using search engines at Larry's World, and finally Global School Net offers some guidelines and policies for protecting students. The Global SchoolNet Foundation has provided information for teachers and parents surrounding issues of proper Internet Use and Protecting Kids. The Search Engine Watch provides excellent analysis and advice about Internet searching.
|Searching on the Internet | Referencing & Copyright | Policies | Integrating | | Internet Study Resources | Rubrics | compelling inquiry: | ILT Leadership Model | WebQuests | Constructivist Design | | Writing Web Pages | Navigation Menu | The Instruction Learning and Technology Leadership Institute provides some materials to familiarize yourself with Search Engines. Google is presently recognized among the best, practice boolean or power searching at Google's Advance Search or make use of our boolean handout. Dr. Bernie Dodge has a page to 7 Steps Towards Better Searching along with a quiz. Arlene Rinaldi has a page dedicated to Netiquette and her Ten Commandments for Computer Ethics. If you are ready to practice, try an Internet Scavenger Hunt. The ILT also provides links to Libraries and encyclopedias online. The Big6™ is the most widely-known and -used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world. Here is a project employing the Big6™.
Referencing the Internet & Copyright Issues
Research Tools: Varioius citation formats for various media!
- NoodleTools offers QuickCite
- The Landmark Project's Citation Machine, Permission Request, Net Evaluation Digital Index Card & Rubrics Tools!
- Evaluating Internet-based Information by David F. Warlick
Researching: Defining the Big 6;
Employing the Big 6;
Using the Big6 to research School Safety.
The Research Cycle created Jamie McKenzie, adapted to the web by David Hillenburg and example lessons.Citing Electronic Resources from CyberBee . When is Copying OK? Plagued by Plagiarism: Fighting Plagiarism, Detecting Dishonesty & TurniItIn.com Copyright Soarweb-based lesson Sources from the University of Texas:
- Various Intellectual Property, MultiMedia & Images,
- from their General Counsel on Intellectual Property.
Copyright & Educational Fair Use. Copyright and Citations: What Educators Need to Know, from Technology4U Copyright on the Internet from Franklin Pierce Law Center Publisher's Rights and Wrongs in the Cyberage by Thomas G. Field, Jr. Web Law FAQs Intellectual Property, Copy and Fair Use guidelines and U.S. Laws and WWW Sites for same. Copyright workshop and classroom information from CyberBee. Copyright and other Issues When is Copying OK? Plagiarism Jamie McKenzie's New Plagiarism ...in the electronic age Fighting Plagiarism Preventing Plagiarism: TurniItIn.com
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Policies & Issues: The Web-Based Internet Commission is a Congressional Commission established to develop specific policy recommendations geared toward maximizing the educational promise of the Internet for pre-K, elementary, middle, secondary, and postsecondary education learners. The Global SchoolNet Foundation has provided information for teachers and parents surrounding issues of proper Internet Use and Protecting Kids. If you are interested in policies, issues, and what other schools have tried already, try The University of Minnesota's Web66 page. UMN's Mustang was designed to provide models, standards, and issues surrounding classroom use, as well as displaying sample projects. Boulder Valley School District of Colorado, has a description of their internet project. No need to reinvent the wheel when considering issues, policies, and projects when putting your school on line. Cyberbee and New Mexico State University have links to forms teachers might use with parents or students, issues to consider before using the internet, and referencing and citing internet resources.Teachers & Projects: Trying to find teachers or other schools on line, try Classroom Connect's site or WEB66's Ohio Schools on line. Interested in online distance projects? Finally, try our own Projects Page.
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Introductory links: Linda Joseph's Cyberbee has several links dedicated to helping teachers integrate the internet into curriculum. Susan Hixson has an excellent page as well. Classroom Connect provides advice about preparing your internet lesson plans. A few more sources for internet integration are New Mexico State University the WIER writer's project in Toronto and Forefront Curriculum Internet-Based Resources on Line . Finally, examine the University of Illinois' Resource Server.
| Searching | Policies | Internet Study Resources | Integrating | Top Page | - Integrating the Internet: The first few links provide an Introduction to including the internet in your lessons. The next More extensive links provide use of the Internet using real-time, real-world data gathering, collaborative projects, conceptual understanding, and deeper analysis of data with authentic assessment.
Working with Rubrics.
- More extensive use, Seven Models for compelling Internet Inquiry:
- | Institute Model | WebQuests | Constructivist Design | Navigation Menu |
- Integrating the Internet while developing higher order cognitive abilities:
- Publishing: SOARWEB, the ILLIT's SOARWEB Tool Box and the first Media Productions at Surweb.org.
- Judi Harris' Virtual Architecture, Interpersonal Exchanges and Activity Structure at the University of Texas.
- The collaborative classroom projects at Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
- WebQuests at San Diego State University and Saskatchewan Schools.
- NASA's Classroom Of The Future Problem Based Learning Modules: Exploring the Environment
- KanCRN's Collaborative Science
- Research: Big6 or The Research Cycle
- Defining the Big 6; Employing the Big 6; Using the Big6 to research School Safety.
- The Research Cycle created Jamie McKenzie, adapted to the web by David Hillenburg and example lessons.
- For those teachers interested in moving more of their instruction into CyberSpace, review these links from our Practitioner page.
- Constructivist Design Projects at Columbia University, all described below.
Models for Compelling Internet Inquiry | WebQuests | Institute Model | Constructivist Design | | Navigation Menu | | Top | WebQuests: Dr. Bernie Dodge of San Diego State University has developed the "Web Quest" as a method (the definition, short term & long term) of integrating the internet into curriculum. San Diego State University's course provides quest resources through their "Links". Higher Level Learning provides a discussion of pedagogical implications of WebQuests and their training materials for using WebQuests in class: building blocks, lessons, design strategies, etc. {Don't forget to review theILT's Compelling Models}
The WebQuest Page has links to several projects, including a WebQuest on WebQuests! You'll find a list of links from the "ILTLI's What's With This CyberSpace" workshop for your review, Kathy Schrock's slide show about WebQuests and her 1960's Museum WebQuest. North Olmsted Ohio, Foreign Language WebQuest Links. Here are a couple of WebQuest Templates, one at Dr. Bernie Dodge's site and another Template.
Search for WebQuests at: Blue Web'n & PacBell, Enter <WebQuest>
New Mexico State University has a series of quests from the Digital Desert
| Rubrics | Working with Rubrics: ISTE's What is a Rubric?
Exemplars Rubrics for Science & Math & K-2 Science
Rubrics Teacher Tools, 4Teachers' RubiStar, TeAch-nology's Generator
Check out this Page of Hundreds of Rubrics!
WebQuest Rubric and Dr. Bernie Dodge's Rubrics Guidelines and a MultiMedia/Webquest Rubric
Peer Review, Assessment & Rubrics links
Qualitative Assessment Rubric from the Digital Desert.
Kathy Schrock's Rubrics or SESD's Rubrics.
Widener University offers evaluational resources for various web contents.ILT Leadership Institute's WebQuests:
Cleveland Municipal School's Mr. J.Fairman's Advertising WebQuest,
North Olmsted's Foreign Language WebQuest Links.
- Characteristics of Webquests
- Examples of Webquests and ThinkQuests,
- A WebQuest on China.
- To search for more information about these types of projects, submit "WebQuest" to San Diego State University's "search the EdWeb."
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Models for Compelling Internet Inquiry | WebQuests | Institute Model | Constructivist Design | | back to Integrating | Navigation Menu | Top Page | Stevens Institute of Technology and The ILT Leadership Institute are developing a series of workshops around meaningful inquiry, real time data gathering, and collaboration through internet integration. Browse our collection of current projects. We are using Soarweb to publish student and teacher multimedia projects. These Collaborative Classroom Projects are the result of a U.S. Dept. of Education Technology Challenge Grant. The Alliance+ is a collaboration amongst Polaris Career Center, The Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology, Cuyahoga Community College, Miami Dade Community College and Phoenix Maricopa Community Colleges. Classroom Projects include real time data gathering resources, real time data for science, and designing collaborative projects.
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Models for Compelling Internet Inquiry | WebQuests | Institute Model | Constructivist Design | | back to Integrating | Navigation Menu | Constructivist Design Projects at Columbia: The Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University has a series of projects devoted to technology integration. Columbia's ILT has a Constructivist Design Project and alternate site, telementoring concept, Discovery Web for Engaged Inquiry for Science Education, a series of readings on Constructivism, Technology and the Future of the Classroom, Technology & School Reform, Technology Pedagogy, and Pedagogic Reform.
Resource Based Learning through the College of Education, Northeast Louisiana University. J.Harris' Interpersonal Exchanges is another good source of information on authentic, real world, collaborative internet projects. Don't forget to review the ILT's Problem Based Learning links.
Working with Rubrics:Check out these!
Moving more of your classroom activities into CyberSpace: review these links from our Practitioner page.
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- Links for those interested in writing Web pages
- How StuffWorks: How Web pages work
Netscape's extensive documentation & assistance for page writing.- SAVVY CyberTeacher Web Page Lessons (scroll to the bottom of this link and review the Supplementary Resources, Guides, & Tutorials)
- The ILT Leadership Institute's own Web Page Writing Asssistance.
- The ILT Leadership Institute's page designed to practice with Composer.
- Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design.
- Tools for Publishing (scroll down to Tutorials) from Somers SCD, NY.
Designing Killer Websites, presentation at the CIT2000 Technology Conference.
- Building a School Website
- Purdue University's Computer Sciences K-12 Outreach
- HTML, page design resources, lessonplans
- Independent School District 196, Minnesota's Web Page Writing & Design links.
- The TechCorps' WebTeacher, an interactive tutorial from TechCorps
- Internet Index & Home Page Construction Kit
- T.H.E.'s How to Write a Web Page
- Netiquette
- Guidelines ettiquette
- WWW Handbook
- Learning Tool
- for WEB publishing/html
- Spinning Maintainable Web Structures
- UVa's Curry School, Ed. Technologies
- Graphics for your page
Search the web with The Amazing Picture Machine! Kathy Schrock's links to graphics. Buttons, bars, art all zipped at Spriteworks.com. Blue Mountain's Image Gallery
Animated Images More Collections:
- http://www.barrysclipart.com/index.html
- http://www.bellsnwhistles.com
- http://www.arttoday.com
- http://www.clipart.com
- http://www.al.com
- http://www.iconbazaar.com/
- http://wwwbillybear4kids.com
- educationindex.com
Links provided my Microsoft SiteBuilder by Microsoft Sitebuilder's network Image Gallery
- Thousands..
- Clip art, backgrounds, buttons, much more!!!!
Links for Internet Use/Policies etc. Cyberbee Larry's Guide to the Internet Web66: Route 66 K-12 WWW Project
- A MUST for the WEBmaster!!! Full....
Web 66: Cookbook Route 66 U. of Minn. and Hillside Elementary School WEB project Mustang Cruise The WEB & Route 66 Use Policies Gopher!
- Millions.....
Boulder Valley Internet Project information about Boulder's internet project BVSD HOMEPAGE Boulder Valley School District Boulder CO Strategic Plan Connect.... Explore issues surrounding privacy, encryptian and Free Speech The Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Frontier Gopher
- Digital Doomsday
Distance Learning Laboratory (DLL) Webmonkey - Teaching Tool--HTML
- Interactive lesson sponsored by WIRED Magazine
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