| Building Your Internet Skills |
Moving downward through this list moves you toward higher level Internet skills.
Beginner:
Reference and Research searching
Virtual Field Trips
Guiding other learners (like your students or fellow staff in how to be an effective searcher/researcher) Intermediate:
Involving your class in keypals
Mentoring others in email
Integration a WebQuest into your curriculum I
Subscribe to an e-Newsletter
Use educator tools on the Internet in assessment
Advanced:
Creating your own WebQuest
Creating and publishing eBooks (your own and student stories)
Collaborating with others in online collaborative activities
Publish an educational web site for your classroom, school, or others
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Searching by Keyword
Recommended for older students
Try Yahooligans (http://www.yahooligans.com/) |
This type of search is best done by using search engines. Examples of a good search engine is found on the Alta Vista site, Yahoo, Infoseek… where they have indexed web resources by gathering text from web pages, then the text is searched like a giant database.
You type in a keyword or combination of words and let the engine search for locations in web page text.Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/ )Google (http://www.google.com/ )Excite (http://www.excite.com/ )
Lycos (http://www.lycos.com )
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Searching by Subject or a Topic
Great for looking for educational resources |
Some search engines store lists of web pages arranged by the topic area. This type of search will generate a list of web sites related to your top.
This would a good way to search for subjects like, “rainforest,” or “physical fitness.”Use Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/ ), Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators (http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ )Michigan Teacher Network ( http://mtn.merit.edu/ )
Blue Web’n (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html#table)
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| Search Sites and Higher level strategies (boolian operations) |
http://edutech.msu.edu/thumbnail/searching.html |
| Virtual Field Trips |
Tramline list of Virtual Field Trips Online (no special equipment needed, just your Internet connected computer) http://www.field-guides.com/trips.htm
An example:
The Heart at the Franklin Institute http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
Endangered Species http://www.field-guides.com/sci/endanger/index.htm |
| Keypals |
ePals.com is a great site to begin from http://www.epals.com/ or Teaching.com http://www.iecc.org/ |
| eMail sites where students can ask questions |
Ask an Expert from Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm
Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/dr-math.html
Stories from the 1940’s by volunteers http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/chatback/english/memories/memories.html
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| e-Newsletters |
EduHound, a newsletter for educators http://www.eduhound.com/eduhoundweekly.cfm
From Now On http://www.fno.org/
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| Educator Tools for assessment online |
RubiStar a Rubric making program http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
QuizStar http://quiz.4teachers.org/index.php3 Profiler http://profiler.hprtec.org/ Create a survey http://www.createsurvey.com/ Puzzlemaker http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ Quiz creation – Zoomerang http://www.zoomerang.com/
Create Surveys and Quizzes online which you can send by e-mail: http://web-online-surveys.com/ |
| Listservs |
MarcoPolo Listserv for teachers http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/teacher/mp_listserv.aspx
Ask ERIC educational mailing lists http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/mailing_list_subscribe.shtml
Search google for a relevant group http://groups.google.com/
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Collaboration
*These all have minimal fees for their manuals |
Join the tracking of the migration of monarchs http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
Help study and predict Hurricanes http://www.onesky.umich.edu/site/hurricanes.html
Join the GalapagosQuest http://quest.classroom.com/archive/galapagosquest1999/default.asp
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