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Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet to Fit Curricular Goals

Barb Randolph

Cape Public Schools

August 19, 2002

• Technology is a TOOL to achieve specific learning objectives
• List specific local, state, and national standards when creating projects
• Replace a lesson that needs improvement or enhance a lesson
• Consider TIME restraints

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/apptypes.html

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• Advantages:
• saves valuable classroom time by finding relative sites for students in advance
• teacher previews and selects material that is age appropriate
• Example
• China on the Net

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/hotlist.html

• Frank Potter’s Science Gems

http://www.sciencegems.com/

• More Info
• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/formats.html#Hotlist

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• Advantages:
• Student-centered
• Multimedia possibilities
• Example
• Exploring China: A Multimedia Scrapbook

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html

• Bienvenue: A Virtual Tour of Paris

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/scrapparisba.html

• More info
• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/formats.html#Scrapbook

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• Advantages:
• Engages students in synthesis of knowledge
• Example:
• The Treasures of China

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/chinahunt.html

• Black History Past to Present: An Interactive Treasure Hunt

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html

• More Info:
• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/formats.html#Hunt

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• Advantages:
• Allows students to express personal perspectives while building knowledge
• Example:
• My China

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/chinahunt.html

• More Info:
• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/formats.html#Sampler

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• Advantages:
• Higher-level thinking is integral
• Collaboration
• Example:
• My China

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/childquest.html

• Searching For China

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/ChinaQuest.html

• More Info:
• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/formats.html#WebQuest

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• “WebQuests in Our Future: The Teacher’s Role in Cyber Space”

http://www.kathyschrock.net/slideshows/webquests/frame0001.htm

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• The Web Quest Page

***** http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

• Home Page for San Diego State University's Web Quest resources
• Road Map Power Point http://webquest.sdsu.edu/roadmap/index.htm
• Start here for step-by-step directions for Web Quest creation 
• Building Blocks

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/buildingblocks/p-index.htm

• Defines each section of Web Quests and gives examples

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• Matrix of examples

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/matrix.html

Examples of WebQuests from main WebQuest page sorted by grade level and content area

• Wagon’s Ho!
• A Collaborative Example for Upper Elementary

http://www.cape.k12.mo.us/centralmidschool/dumey/web_quest.htm

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• Filamentality Templates
• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/tour.html
• “How do I create a collaborative internet project?” by Kathy Schrock
• http://www.creativeclassroom.com/so00tech/index.html
• “Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educator’s” – a list of award-winning sites by content area & resources
• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/content2.html
• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• “Web-bits…..just a little bit of the web”

Created by Cheryl Davis, Hazelwood Central High School

http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~cdavis01/webbits/

• “The Way Cool Water Cycle”
• http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~cdavis01/webbits/cz/wcycle/

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

Davis, Cheryl. Web-bits. . .just a little bit of the web. Accessed 16 August 2002.

<http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~cdavis01/webbits/>

Dodge, Bernie. The WebQuest Page. 28 February 1998. Accessed 26 June 2001 & 15 August 2002. <http://webquest.sdsu.edu/>.

Filamentality: Helping You Add Your Own Filament to the Web. <http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/>

Schrock, Kathleen. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. 1 June 1995. Accessed 15 August 2002. <http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/>

SBC Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer. A Quick Definition of Application Types. Accessed 16 August 2002. <http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/apptypes.html>

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

Literacy Online: Using Message BoardsDavid Hofmeister and Matt Thomas, Central Missouri State from October 2001, Missouri Educational Technology Conference

• Recommend using Message Boards BlackBoard to improve literacy.
• Based on reader-response theory
• Their research indicates that the quality of student responses depended on the teacher-initiated prompt.

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• Advantages:
• Allows 100% participation in discussion
• Higher-level thinking is goal
• Increases the level of thought as students have time for reflection
• Process becomes part of the product
• More Information
• http://www.blackboard.com/

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

Interactive Reading AnalysisSuggestions from Dianne Tinucci, English instructor at Lafayette High Schoolfrom October 2001, Missouri Educational Technology Conference

Diane Tinucci utilizes a technique she terms  "HyperPoetry."  

• Works well for any short work which students need to analyze.    
• Students create a web page demonstrating their analysis of the work by linking to relevant enrichment information as well as to student generated commentaryto student-highlighted passages.  See examples below:
• Hyper Rivers
• Hypermandias-Multimedia Presentation-Tinucci

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

Suggestions from Jamie McKenzie, editor of From Now On, technology journal

from October 2001, Missouri Educational Technology Conference

Building Good New Ideas

• Recommends moving from trivial pursuit to meaningful questions

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

• Success Link Technology Related Lessons
• http://www.moteachingjobs.com/lessons/mainsearch.cfm
• Rubrics Made Easy
• http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
• Online Games & Quizzes
• http://www.quia.com/web/index.html
• One Computer Classroom
• http://www.kathyschrock.net/1computer/index.htm
• MarcoPolo
• http://marcopolo.worldcom.com

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet

Cyber Curriculum: Integrating the Internet