Focus Question: What are the educational benefits of electronic conferencing? In Class Soca Surprise

      Tutorial/Reviews ( One)
 

Blogs for Teachers

Blogs for Classrooms

Slam the Spam
http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/4520-3666_16-1013545.html?tag=fs
Pop those Pop Ups
http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/4520-3664_16-1013219.html?tag=fs

      Readings: (Choose Two)

Protect Your Privacy on line

CyberPsychology and Behavior

Internet Protection for Young Ones
Block Unwanted Spam
New American Idol
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/idol.html
Videoconferencing

Five Things We Need to know About Technological Change
http://itrs.scu.edu/tshanks/pages/Comm12/12Postman.htm

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Influential Books of the Past Century

Guggenheim

Science News Online

Centers for Disease Control

E-books.com

Maine Memory Index  
History Net
http://www.thehistorynet.com/
Look Smart
http://www.looksmart.com/
Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com/
About.com
http://www.about.com/
Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Odyssey in Egypt
http://www.website1.com/odyssey/
Twenty Below
http://weather.about.com/science/weather/library/blcurrnt.htm

Slightly Different

Instant City Weather
http://weather.about.com/science/weather/library/blcurrnt.htm
HealthFinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Think Quest
http://www.thinkquest.org/
Map Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
Quotations Page
http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/
National Geographic's Lewis and Clark
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/west/

Gas Buddy

Penny Arcade

Zagat Survey
Seeing Stars in Hollywood
http://www.seeing-stars.com/index.shtml
Classical Music Archives
http://www.classicalarchives.com/
MP3.Com
http://www.mp3.com/
 

      Homework: ( Do Three from the previous week and  one below)

1. Subscribe to at least five newsgroups. Sample postings. Post/reply if interested.

2. Get a head start on learning about e-books. Spend time at E-books in the classsroom.
Download free e-books software at Overdrive

3. Design your own activity.

4. Create a handout  for parents that outlines tips for chat room safety.

5. Read Let's Chat. Suggest strategies for using chat rooms in classrooms.

6. Respond to the article, Can Intimacy be Found Online

06 Workshop: E-Resources

Focus Question: What are the types of information that can be found on the Internet?
 In Class

Tutorials: (Choose One)

Recommended Subject Directories
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SubjDirectories.html
Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web
 http://www.webliminal.com/search/index.html
 Readings: ( Choose One)
Required
E-Books: Just Another Imprint?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,40584,00.html
E-book Publishing

Be a Web-Savvy Researcher

http://www.llrx.com/features/savvy.htm#fn1

What Makes a Hacker  Hack?

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-831095.html

Recommended

Internet debate generates hot air!

http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/05/17/debate/index.html

Are we ready for the library of the future?

http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1997/12/02feature.html

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools

http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html

Links: (Review Three)
Bibliographic Searches
 

Ursus

http://ursus.maine.edu/

Arts and Letters Daily

Project Gutenberg

Library of Congress

http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

Columbia University Libraries WWW Information System

http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries

Internet Public Library

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
http://www.siris.si.edu/

Research Tools
 

Nolo

Snopes

Urban Dictionary

Craigslist

Getting Grants

http://www.libraryspot.com/features/grantsfeature.htm

Academic Information

http://www.academicinfo.net/

Information Please

http://www.infoplease.com/

Research It

http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html

Elements of Style
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

Interactive E-Mail Services

 Ask an Expert

Popular Magazines: Full Text-Articles
 

Town Hall (Conservative Columnists)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/

Magazines Online

http://www.magazinesatoz.com/

E-Zines
http://www.zinebook.com/

Full-Text Resources

New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/archives/
Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

Specialty Sites

AMG All Music Guide

Science daily

FedStats

What Is?
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
Maps
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
Supreme Court Collection
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
Discipline Help
http://www.disciplinehelp.com/
Booklist
http://www.ala.org/booklist/
A Research Site for Legal Professionals
http://www.virtualchase.com/

A Guide to the Best Writer's Software for Every Kind of Writing

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/writesoftware

Library of Congress Online Exhibits

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

http://www.thinker.org/

A List of Federal Agencies on the Internet

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

Banned Books on Line

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/banned-books.html

The On-Line Books Page

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature:
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html

Digital Textbooks

Alternative Publishing Sources

Happy Hacker
http://www.happyhacker.org/

Homework: (Choose One)
 

1. Develop a lesson plan that will require your students to do at least one of the following:

        evaluate information for its relevance

        accurately identify assumptions

        construct plausible inferences

        identify relevant points of view

        distinguish significant from insignificant information
 

2 . Using online resources, plan an overnight trip for your class to the Children's Museum in Boston.

3.  You want to promote the use e-resources in your classroom. How will you do it?

20  Workshop: Evaluating Internet Resources
 

Focus Question: What's the best way to evaluate electronic information?

 In-Class

 Tutorial ( Sample)

 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Readings: (Choose One)

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html

Critical Media Literacy

 Links: (Review Two)

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PBS Teacher Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
The Best Search Engines
http://www.startingpage.com/html/search.html
The Soundry
http://library.thinkquest.org/19537/

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Best Educational Web Sites
http://www.skewlsites.com/webproj.htm
American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/
Britannica On Line
http://www.eb.com/
Global School House
http://www.gsn.org/

Slightly Different

Quilting Homepage
 http://quilting.miningco.com/hobbies/quilting/
World Wide School
http://www.worldwideschool.org/
Research Papers
 http://www.researchpaper.com
 Term papers-Thousands
 http://www.termpapers-on-file.com
 Great Books Overview
 http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/template.htx

A Bit More Entertaining and/or Controversial

Rush Limbaugh
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/
Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org/index.html
The Entertaining Portal
http://www.theentertainingportal.com/
Net Zero
 http://www.netzero.net/
 Atomic Books
 http://www.atomicbooks.com/
World's Hardest Trivia
http://www.scoopy.com/trivia.htm

Take a position: A high school junior taking a school class  on Web design attaches a picture of a Confederate flag to her site which details her family's role in the Civil War. A teacher notices the flag  and tells the student she cannot use the  image because it's "racist and  inflammatory." The teacher also says it violates school rules against "hate speech," adopted after violent incidents  at the school involving display of the flag. After the student refuses to remove the  image of the flag, the school orders the  Web page to be erased, and the principal later orders that the student be removed  from the course and receive no class credit for her work. The student's parents file suit, alleging    her First Amendment rights have been violated.

Self-design your own project

27  Workshop: Online Learning

Artwork by Louis Fishauf. Used with permission

Focus Question: How does online learning work?

In-Class:

Tutorial ( Choose One)

Working the Web For Education
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/oct00/march.htm

Design a webquest

Links: (Review Three)

Straight and Narrow
 

Ask Dr. Science

http://www.drscience.com/

Webcast Academy

Smart Writers

http://www.smartwriters.com/

Bio4all

http://www.biology4all.com/

Kid's Web

http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/   

The Best Search Engines
http://www.startingpage.com/html/search.html
 

Slightly Different

Educational uses of the Internet and World WideWeb for middle and high school science instruction.

http://www.kie.berkeley.edu/KIE.html

A Bit More Entertaining

Webby Awards

http://www.webbyawards.com/

Medical Reference Library
http://www.med-library.com/medlibrary/

Rare Book Collection
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/

Homework: (Do One)

1. Set up an interview with someone who uses the Internet  a lot--say 15 hours a week.  Find out if he or she uses it for single or multiple reasons--as in online learning, recreation, social or work/school-related tasks. What feature(s) does her or she use the most (See below)? Good luck.
 

• real audio - real time radio and audio from around the world
• quicktime - video clips with audio
• video conferencing
• up to the minute news (weather, business, local)
• information
• making travel arrangements
• subscribing to books, magazines, and newspapers
• chats, IRC
• entertainment (Movies, Books, Videos, Music)
• shopping
   

2. Design an e-project that requires students to use various literacies to experience, understand, and appreciate literature. Make sure  students
 

• work, write, and speak effectively.
• develop historical knowledge of major events, people, and enduring themes
• use the chronology of history and major eras to demonstrate the relationships of events and people.
• evaluate resource material such as documents, artifacts, maps, artworks, and literature
• make judgments about the perspectives of the authors and their credibility when interpreting current historical events.
   

3. Design your own Webquest page

 
November

  03 Workshop: Search Strategies 

 

Focus Question: What the best way to find information on the Internet?

In Class

Tutorials:

Search Engine Comparisons

http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/ressubj/subject/intrnt/srcheng.htm

11 Ways to Search Without Google

Readings: ( Barbie/Media literacy  plus another)

Barbie vs. The Misfits
http://ibiblio.org/stayfree/archives/13/barbie.html
Center for Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org/
Search Engine Sizes
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/sizes.html

Search Engines Review

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156581

Search Engines In Review
http://www.blueangels.net/
Search Engine Watch
http://www.SearchEngineWatch.com/
 

Recommended
Look Smart Submit a Site

http://submit.looksmart.com/

Charlie Harris." History on the Net". History Review. March 1997 n27 p24(2) Article A20052467
Jeff Prosise. "Researching with the Web"  P.C. Magazine. June 11,1996 v15 n11 p235(2) A1831371

Links: (Review Three)

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Vintage Children's Books
http://www.tagnwag.com/index.html
FIND articles .COM
http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml
Newspers.com
http://www.newspapers.com/
Implicit Association Test
http://www.yale.edu/implicit/
Kids Invent Toys
http://www.kidsinvent.org/
 

Slightly Different
Digital Library NYPL
http://digital.nypl.org/
Parentsoup.com

http://www.parentsoup.com/

National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/

Plagiarism.Org

http://plagiarism.org/

Academic Term Papers
http://www.academictermpapers.com/index.htm

Learned Helplessness Home page

http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~fresco/helplessness.html

A Bit More Entertaining

Piano Graphique
http://www.pianographique.com/
100 Worst Ideas of the Century
http://www.time.com/time/time100/worstideas.html
Household Encyclopedia
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Household_Cyclopedia_of_General_Information

Babygear.com

http://www.babyfurniture.com/

Ask Martha
http://www.marthastewart.com/Nav/
Starwars Official Site
http://www.starwars.com/

ZDNet Software Library

http://www.hotfiles.com/internet.html

Homework:

Media literacy is an informed, critical understanding of the mass media. It involves an examination of the techniques, technologies and institutions that  are involved in media production, the ability to critically analyze media messages, and a recognition of the roles that audiences play in making meaning from those messages (Shepherd). In reference to Barbie  products, why are they so popular?  What values are built into its advertising? What messages should children take in visiting the www site?  Do you teach media literacy? If so, how? If not, why not?

  10 Search Strategies Continued

Homework:

Please complete  the pop-culture web page you started in class. Be sure to include animation, film, and music.

17 Streaming and All that Jive

Focus Question : What is the educational value of  digital media?

  ApriIn-Class(01)
In-Class( 02)

Tutorials

Reading

Edweb
http://edweb.gsn.org/

Links: (Review Three)

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