1. By: Jamie Bunting and Michelle O’Callaghan

2. The “Ten C’s” provide criteria to consider in evaluating Internet resources. - Content- Continuity - Credibility- Censorship - Critical Thinking- Connectivity - Copyright- Comparability - Citation- Context

3. Documentation and Credibility Content Audience Appeal and Suitability Ease of Use, Navigation, and Accessibility User Interface and Design

4. Portal Sites Content Resources Language Arts Mathematics Science Social Studies Arts Experience Simulations Research Tools

5. Provide links to a great variety of educational resources, from very general to topics specific Portal sites that contain teacher tools contain lesson plans, teacher discussion boards, and links to other support materials Examples:Discoveryschool.com http://school.discovery.com Education World www.education-world.com Edupuppy www.edupuppy.com

6. Sites that provide some type of content information National organizations, research institutes, or even individual Internet users maintain these sites Can be used as a supplemental or enrichment resource or can supply the backbone of a series of lessons

7. Language Arts ReadWriteThink www.readwritethink.org Inspirational Poetry Online: A Guide to Internet Resources www.poetry-portal.com Vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery http://www.vacabulary.com

8. Mathematics Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org Cool Math www.coolmath.com CuriousMath.com www.curiousmath.com

9. Science EarthSLOT www.earthslot.org Franklin Institute Online http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/welcome.html Volcanoworld http://volcano.und.nodak.edu

10. Social Studies American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html Digital History www.digitalhistory.uh.edu Geography Zone http://www.geographyzone.com/new/index.ph p

11. Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org Play Music www.playmusic.org

12. Through online communication, students can experience what they cannot see in person Pictures and stories bring remote events and foreign parts of the world to vivid life through the computer screen Examples: Global Online Adventure Learning Site (Goals) www.goals.com The Jason Project www.jasonproject.org

13. Answers www.answers.com Educator’s Reference Desk www.eduref.org Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com

14. Complete works of art are not just for the eyes of parents and peers anymore There are online sites for students to post their papers and other work The Virtual Refrigerator Door: ages 2-18 displays artwork by artist name www.educationindex.com/weaselworld/fridge.html Cyberkids: ages 7-12 publishes written works www.cyberkids.com

15. Collaborative work opportunities Sites available to work with other classes world wide Education World’s Collaborative Projects www.education-world.com/projects/index.shtml Global SchoolNet Internet Projects Directory www.gsn.org/pr/_cfm/index.cfm

16. Sites can create puzzles for the content area or just generate puzzles Astronomy for Kids Puzzles www.dustbunny.com/afk/puzzles Fact Monster: The History of the Crossword Puzzle www.factmonster.com/spot/crossword1.html

17. As a supplement, requiring students to log on at home for homework, keeping information for a lesson on a class website or using the internet to find conduct research for class WebQuest: http://webquest.org Online district information, informational websites from school districts for parents

18. “the delivery of the educational process to receivers who are not in proximity to the person or persons managing or conducting the process” (Lewis, Whitaker, & Julian 1995) Feeling of being part of a class from anywhere Option of flexibility and courses not provided by school

19. Teachers feel relationships are stronger Teachers feel they lose face time Teachers feel working with other teachers is harder Teachers find it hard to take their ways of teaching and duplicating them online

20. Mental Plan Audience- Who do I want the attention of? Types of Information- Is it information that my audience will enjoy? Presentation Strategies- How should my information be presented?

21. Design Process Study- Look at other sites Sketch- Imagine your page Plan the Navigation- Create a simple user-friendly path Plan the Organization- Keep records of page titles, sources and reasons, source for graphics, size and type of graphics, width of horizontal lines Plan for Accessibility- For students with disabilities, students with slower connection, type of hardware Accessible Quick Tips: www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips Accessible Compliance: http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp

22. Involve Students Teaching through using the internet Students might be able to create one better than adults Complete process can be a valuable cross-curricular project

23. The Development Process Web Editing Software- allows construction of attractive and effective web pages complete with multimedia elements Productivity Software- new productivity tools provide option to save documents as a webpage

24. The Development Process Online Web Editors- wizards are provided for step by step creation Course Management Software- used to either create professional-quality course supplements or convert entire courses to online format to be offered at a distance

25. Server Storage Local Server Space- procedures f or hosting individual classroom web material Hosted Server Space- public and educational websites offer free web pages and subscription- based hosting

26. Check your site Have someone else “proofread” your site Update your site Checks your web links Improve your site Accommodate new ideas

27. The World Wide Web is a source of unlimited resources Teachers can try exploring how to design web based instruction Software advances make creating a web page easier Keep up on your new web page.

28. Bitter, Gary G., Legacy, Jane M. Using Technology In The Classroom. Seventh Edition.