Using and Creating Web-Based Lessons

Handouts

Module 1

Web-Based Learning

WebQuests

            Using WebQuests

            The WebQuest Portal--Dodge

Basic Web Page Design Using Word as the Web Editor

Tutorial on MS Word

Module 2

Searching:  Becoming a Better Searcher

How to Find what you want     

Quick Reference Guide

Best Engine for Specific Needs

Exploring Web Resources  

Finding Appropriate Materials on the Web

Advanced Searching Strategies

WebQuests to Checkout

Matrix

Questgarden: Tool for Making WebQuests

Search for Quests

Evaluating WebQuests

Module 3

WebQuest Templates

| PowerPoint Template

Filamentality - create hotlists, samplers, hunts, and webquests

·        Web Poster/Worksheet Wizard - create web-based activity pages

·        Teach-nology WebQuest Generator - The page provides an outline and generates a page, but doesn't store it or make the links active.

·        WebQuest Templates - San Diego State's master templates

·        WebQuest Template - you download the template.

Download by right click/Save Target As/ File will download to your computer http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/mywebquest/index.htm

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

WebQuest Design

Adapting WebQuests

Step by Step to Your WebQuest

Creating WebQuests

Make It Work

            Beginning Your WebQuest

Design Process

Defining your problem

Module 4

Rubrics 

Rubistar--site where you create a rubric using a wizard 

Cooperative Learning Techniques

Principles of good web page design

Copyright Concerns

Tools for Use in Designing a WebQuest

Sources

Johnson, J. (1999). Ten Deadly Web Site Sins. WebMaster Resources, Article 26.

Lynch, P. J. & Horton, S. (1999). Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. New Haven: Yale University Press.

McKenzie, J. (1994) Grazing the net: Raising a generation of free range students. http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/livetext-nf/docs/graze.html

Miller, H. & Mather, R. (1998, March). The presentation of self in WWW home pages. Paper presented at the Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists 1998 International Conference, Bristol, UK. http://www.sosig.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper21.htm

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (1998). Pathways to School Improvement, Critical Issue: Rethinking Assessment and its Role in Supporting Educational Reform. http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/assment/as700.htm

Rubio, S. (1996, February). Home page. Bad subjects (24). http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/bs/24/rubio.html

Spider Net http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~dlyoung/

Stahl, R. (1994). ERIC Digest: The Essential Elements of Cooperative Learning in the Classroom. ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education. ERIC Document ED 370 881. http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed370881.html