Science Education Online    Nina Visconti-Phillips   609-409-8501    ARISE@edusite.com
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Foundation and Basics
Although educational technology does not mean just the Internet, today we will be exploring what resources are on the WWW and how they are used. Build awareness of what is being done with this tool and resource.

	What do you know? What do you do now?
	What is the technology intended to do?                        Website evaluation guidelines
	Organizing Internet resources for your use. E-mail & links Websites Why should a teacher maintain a site?
	How do educators use their own pages?
	Internet technology to meet requirements: Search engines, e-mail, databases
	Internet technology to address new goals: Ask an Expert, Collaborative Projects, Online Class
	Using technology "to deliver instructional opportunities that match the background and pace of the learners" Mrs. Christman's Web Page - Junior High Resource Center
	Nitty Gritty - sites with more information on educational technology

           
                                         

                    Finding information on your own

Analysis of Internet Resources    What types of science education resources are out there?

Resources/ Web sites for teachers.

Why do educators have their OWN page or site? Examples

    Communication with others
                *Components of a teacher Web page - What would YOU include?
                *I compile information for educators I work with and for myself.

   Creating Web-based or Web integrated lessons for students
                -  using the information and communication capabilities of the   WWW for lessons and long-term projects.
              examples from Toll Gate School,
                 *Purposes - Information gathering for students. 
                   Hyperstudio presentation creation using information from your site.
                   For creation of a survey or project. -
                   Examples: Endangered Animal Project or Lazar School Science

      Internet lesson plan ideas - to supplement existing curriculum
                         * Enhancing science teaching with content rich websites, multimedia,
                             games, simulations, etc.
                         * Many lists, some of which can be found through edusite.
                         * Need an ePal source?
                         * A fun educational site - Bell Labs Text-to Speech.
                                 Can you find the language site at Excite?

              Professional Development opportunities - online
                Grants, Collaboration, Communication - through organizations in place.

    Collaborative Projects: edusite - check out some here
                E-mail or online projects
                Purpose - for information exchange, collaborative projects
                Method - ask an expert, whole class or individual communications

   Curriculum support - Content/knowledge area and/or lesson planning resource compilation.

    Problems you may run across.... old links, site management, snooping, anything else?

Finding Information on your own

          Navigating the Web; basic searches
               *Directories - May be keyword searchable.
                     Specific - NASA.gov, edusite.com etc.
                     General - Yahoo.com 
             *Search Engines May have sub categories to help you narrow down your search.

FutureLab - Gravity for physical science by Simulations Plus

Other sites on web that sell or promote software such as             CBC4kids
    

E- mail

• Obtaining an email account yahoo
• Attaching a document to a message.
  

• What do you need to learn? What other classes would be helpful?
      basic computer use, web site design, introduction to e-mail? navigating the internet? Demonstration and technology in science teaching? ______________________
  

• More on Building Educational Sites  Provide links to Internet educational resources, share and communicate with others from around the globe, build school spirit, and can provide access to the school community.

• There are ethical and societal issues associated with Internet use such as copyright infringements, fair use, plagiarism, etc.
• Guidelines for use, responsibilities of students, teachers, parents, administrators...
  

Creating an effective educational Web site

Using Netscape to access the World Wide Web
    Working with the Netscape interface: scrolling, window sizing, moving windows, etc.
Organization of Information Shared Today:
    *Setting and organizing bookmarks Vs creating your own site.
    *Creating your own Web page for this workshop

Lesson Plans

The dynamic earth

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Creating web on your own machine?

How can it be uploaded?  Save file as...

Notes:
Examples of teacher-created Web pages using Web resources: lesson planning;
Web page creation using  WYSIWYG Web page creation tools such as Claris homepage or Microsoft FrontPage simple editing options such as: text size, formatting; customizing colors and backgrounds

Planning Web-centered lessons, Long-term student-centered projects, collaborative projects, using real-time and archived data

Types of connections: dial-up (modem) vs. direct (cable modem, ISDN, T1, etc.)
        Internet services: e-mail, ftp, World Wide Web, Telnet, Usenet


HTML: a first look at HTML - behind the scenes of homepage/FrontPage including animations, videos, etc.
    click-able image maps JavaScript, CGI scripting, Frontier, etc. inserting simple graphics (gifs; jpegs)