Week
26: Selecting & Evaluating an Online Project, Internet Safety
Homework
for the Teacher
Today’s focus is "Choosing an Online Project." Last
week you and your students spent an entire class session browsing
example after example of online project ideas from Judi Harris’ site, Virtual
Architecture. While students are reviewing Internet
safety rules and critical evaluation skills, you will be selecting
a project that supports curriculum-related learning goals and that
blends well with their interests and abilities. Here are three
great resources to help you make that choice in
a snap!
GRITS
(Great Resources for Integrating Technology in Schools) allows
you view Thematic
Projects At a Glance.
Global
SchoolNet’s "Harnessing
the Power of the Web" delivers more great resources
to help you choose a project!
Subscribe
to the Hilites
mailing list (in Global SchoolNet) to receive advance
notice of online projects gleaned from around the world. Notices
are dropped right into your email box!
Internet
projects are a great way for your students to work cooperatively and collaboratively.
Check out these fantastic
teaching resources (printable color mini-posters and
charts).
Reading
Strategy Spotlight
Retelling
or synthesizing requires the putting together of ideas in
a new way. It pulls together the processes of recalling, ordering
and recreating of information into a coherent whole. It invites
students to collect an array of facts and connect them to a central
theme or idea. Giving students the opportunity to synthesize
generates a deeper understanding of what they read.
Student
Activity Sheet
Printable pages designed to complement the current week's
Reading Strategy Spotlight and to help students organize their
thoughts, reflect upon reading material, and look for organizational
patterns in online text.
BBs: Weekly
Nuggets of "Best Practices" and "Brain Research"
Do
you know when not to give up on a student and how
it is related to "learned helplessness?" Link to Teachley's!
TechKnow
Disaster Preparedness Pages
Printable Computer Skills Mini-Posters & activity sheets
for those times when the network crashes or equipment is unavailable.
You can print a different page each week.
Fifth
Grade Computer Skills Test Item Bank
Please retain the security of this test to maintain its
validity. Contact your local Media and/or Technology Director
for the user name and password to access the item bank.
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