AGENDA:

TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP, 5/16 AND 5/17/2000

TED METHODS FACULTY

Nada Mach & Peter Desberg, Facilitators

 

  1. Software:

http://clearinghouse.k12.ca.us/ – has a searchable database, software has been evaluated and lesson suggestions are there. Content standards addressed are spelled out, and Internet links are provided.
    1. Selection Criteria: Rubrics

      2. http://clearinghouse.k12.ca.us/c/@VhVznyn0LOmus/rubrics.html

    2. Finding software (Searching the database): http://clearinghouse.k12.ca.us/c/@VhVznyn0LOmus/search.html?nocache@1
    1. Standards and frameworks listed by core subject
    2. Resources
    3. Sample lessons
  1. The Web:
    1. From the World Wide Web Virtual Library: "Evaluation of Information Sources": http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm This is a bibliography of evaluation resources posted on the Web.
    2. Evaluating Web Resources by Jan Alexander & Marsha Ann Tate, Widener University, Wolfgram Memorial Library: http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm – This is the best and most complete rubric for evaluating Web pages. Check it out!
    1. See above S.C.O.R.E. Web site.
    2. Apple Learning Interchange: http://ali.apple.com/ali/
    3. California Learning Interchange: http://www.gse.uci.edu/cli/ – put up by U.C. Irvine, the CLI contains units, case studies, etc.
    4. Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL): http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/index.asp?option=404#resources – database on online educator resources, including assessment, unit/lesson plans, etc.
    5. The Learning Place (University of Texas) - http://www.lib.utexas.edu:80Libs/k12/ – contains resources for teachers, students, and librarians in the k-12 community.
    6. The Lesson Plans Home Page: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ – This page has a database of lessons. One of many out there; you need to evaluate how worthwhile each lesson is.
    7. Arts EdNet, from J. Paul Getty Foundation: http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/index.html – a searchable database of lessons.
    8. Middleweb Curriculum & Instruction Resources: http://www.middleweb.com/ContntCurr.html – a database of lessons geared to middle school students.
    9. PBS – Teaching with Technology: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/teachtech.htm – Great resource for getting ideas for lessons in different subjects.

 

  1. WebQuests: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March.

The instructional goal of a short term WebQuest is knowledge acquisition and integration, described as Dimension 2 in Marzano's (1992) Dimensions of Thinking model. At the end of a short term WebQuest, a learner will have grappled with a significant amount of new information and made sense of it. A short-term WebQuest is designed to be completed in one to three class periods.

The instructional goal of a longer term WebQuest is what Marzano calls Dimension 3: extending and refining knowledge. After completing a longer term WebQuest, a learner would have analyzed a body of knowledge deeply, transformed it in some way, and demonstrated an understanding of the material by creating something that others can respond to, on-line or off. A longer term WebQuest will typically take between one week and a month in a classroom setting.

    1. Illustrating Endangered Species (grades 5,6, Science, Art, Language Arts): http://www.esc2.net/TIELevel2/projects/art/
    2. The Pilgrim Life Adventure (grades k-3, Social Studies): http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/kimbrough/pilgrimlife/
    3. Remember the Holocaust (middle school, English, Social Studies): http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq11/afrank.htm
    4. Hello, Dolly (high school, Science, Social Studies): http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/dolly/main.htm