Integrating the Internet into the [Secondary] Classroom Steve Spengler [email_address] Coordinator of Educational Technology Colonial Intermediate Unit 20

A Little Humor First… A wise schoolteacher sends this note to all parents on the first day of school: "If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home." Little Johnny had finished his summer vacation and gone back to school. Two days later his teacher phoned his mother to tell her that he was misbehaving. "Wait a minute," she said. "I had Johnny with me for three months and I never called you once when he misbehaved." Teacher: Where is your homework? Pupil: I lost it fighting this kid who said you weren't the best teacher in the school

Evaluating Online Resources Exercise Go to http://www.novemberlearning.com/ Click on “Archive of Articles” Select “Teaching Zach to Think.” Read the article. Feel free to click any link to outside sources including Professor Butz’s original document. Share your thoughts Cyberguide for Content Evaluation

Go to http://www.novemberlearning.com/

Click on “Archive of Articles”

Select “Teaching Zach to Think.”

Read the article. Feel free to click any link to outside sources including Professor Butz’s original document.

Share your thoughts

Cyberguide for Content Evaluation

Online Automatic Citations http://citationmachine.net Hayes, Steven J. &quot;Basic Jokes for Teachers.&quot; Basic Jokes . 10 Oct. 2005 <http://www.basicjokes.com/dtitles.php?cid=154>.

Topics Internet-based learning applications Strategies for Internet integration in the secondary classroom Putting it all together “ Working the Web for Education” and “What’s on the Web” by Tom March “ The Internet Connection: Exploring the Power of the Web as a Teaching Tool” by Educational Research Corporation

Internet-based learning applications

Strategies for Internet integration in the secondary classroom

Putting it all together

Internet-based learning applications

Learning Applications Springboards Lessons/online Tutorials Tools Reference resources Information resources Projects Activities

Springboards

Lessons/online Tutorials

Tools

Reference resources

Information resources

Projects

Activities

Springboards Use media from the Internet as springboards to further discussion or lesson integration Similar to cartoon on the overhead or beginning a lesson with a story Discussion/lesson starters Scenarios Writing prompts [PSSA]

Use media from the Internet as springboards to further discussion or lesson integration

Similar to cartoon on the overhead or beginning a lesson with a story

Discussion/lesson starters

Scenarios

Writing prompts [PSSA]

What do you think happened here? www.unitedstreaming.com

www.mrseiler.org/cartoons.html www.juliantrubin.com

UnitedStreaming.com www.unitedstreaming.com Language Arts – Homer’s Illiad – Grades 10 - 12

UnitedStreaming.com www.unitedstreaming.com Health/Science – Bacteria – Grades 9 - 12

UnitedStreaming.com www.unitedstreaming.com Basics of Using UnitedStreaming Go to www.unitedstreaming.com Enter the username and password. Passcodes – allow you to create an account on your own (Pleasant Valley -> xxx – xxxx) Search via all different means! Stream or Download

Go to www.unitedstreaming.com

Enter the username and password.

Passcodes – allow you to create an account on your own (Pleasant Valley -> xxx – xxxx)

Search via all different means!

Stream or Download

Feline Reactions to Bearded Men http://www.improb.com/archives/classical/cat/cat/html

Feline Reactions to Bearded Men (UPDATED) http://www.improb.com/archives/classical/cat/cat/html

Joan Berger’s Scenarios http://users.adelphia.net/~jberger5/Activitiesindex.html Ambassador For a Day (Latin America, Writing) Are We Martians? (Space Science, Astronomy) The Big Apple (Geography, History, Art, Social Science, Cartography) The Cassini Mission (Space Science, Astronomy) College Bound (Careers, Environment) Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume? (Human Body) Faster Than a Speeding Bullet (Neuroscience, Recording and Analyzing Data) Giants Among Us (Black History, African Studies, Science) The Golden Door (Immigration, Cultural Diversity) Good Advice (Literature-Shakespeare, Family Values) How Far Is Far (Maps and Distances) Intergalactic Explorers (Astronomy, Space Studies) Let Your Fingers Do the Walking (Social Studies, Writing, Geography) Lights! Camera! Action! (History, Technology, Science) Paper Trails (American History, Language) Rescue At Sea (Geography, Meteorology, Astronomy, Mathematics) Stories in Stone (Mayan Culture, Language, Mathematics, Archaeology) Teen Tours (Social Studies-Geography, History; Archaeology) Touchy! Touchy! (Neuroscience, Recording and Analyzing Data) Wildlife Refuge (Environment, Living Things, Language/Writing, Oceanography, Government)

Find a springboard for you! Use www.UnitedStreaming.com (if you don’t know your username/password – use iu20teacher/iu20teacher) An image that can be used as a lesson starter Scenario that can be used to kick-off your lesson Either print it out or save it in your bookmarks

Use www.UnitedStreaming.com (if you don’t know your username/password – use iu20teacher/iu20teacher)

An image that can be used as a lesson starter

Scenario that can be used to kick-off your lesson

Either print it out or save it in your bookmarks

Lessons/Online Tutorials Target specific learner outcomes Guide a user through instructional steps May have feedback or checkpoints Technically hard to create Newer technologies allow for more

Target specific learner outcomes

Guide a user through instructional steps

May have feedback or checkpoints

Technically hard to create

Newer technologies allow for more

Interactive Frog Dissection http://www.froguts.com/

The Grammar Gym http://athena.english.vt.edu/~IDLE/Gym2/index.html

Interpreting Political Cartoons http://www1.moe.edu.sg/edsoftware/ir/soc.html

Careership – Mapping our Your Future http://mapping-your-future.org/features/careership/

The Story of Elizabeth Whitney Williams http:// www.michiganepic.org/KeeperOfTheLightFlash /

Math Tutorials http://www.math.hmc.edu/calculus/tutorials/

What types of tutorials or lessons are you looking for? Go to www.nettrekker.com Do a search for a keyword Filter it down via Lesson Plans Learning Exercises Learning Games Print them out or save them in your bookmarks

Go to www.nettrekker.com

Do a search for a keyword

Filter it down via

Lesson Plans

Learning Exercises

Learning Games

Print them out or save them in your bookmarks

Tools Require student input used to quickly generate output Search engine is most used tool Online databases Teacher tools Curricular tools

Require student input used to quickly generate output

Search engine is most used tool

Online databases

Teacher tools

Curricular tools

Utah Education Network http://www.uen.org/7-12interactives/index.shtml

NASA Observatorium http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/core.shtml.html

Calculators Online http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

Maritime History Archive http:// www.mun.ca/mha /

HPR*TEC http://4teachers.org/

Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/

Alterna Timelines http://www2.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html

What types of tutorials or lessons are you looking for? Go to www.nettrekker.com Do a search for a keyword Filter it down via Lesson Plans Learning Exercises Learning Games Print them out or save them in your bookmarks

Go to www.nettrekker.com

Do a search for a keyword

Filter it down via

Lesson Plans

Learning Exercises

Learning Games

Print them out or save them in your bookmarks

Reference Resources Comprehensive in scope CIA World Factbook Statistical Abstract of the US Library of Congress - Science Ready Reference iTools.com Microsoft Encarta HistoryCentral.com Subject-specific Web Elements Historical Russia

Comprehensive in scope

CIA World Factbook

Statistical Abstract of the US

Library of Congress - Science

Ready Reference

iTools.com

Microsoft Encarta

HistoryCentral.com

Subject-specific

Web Elements

Historical Russia

CIA World Fact Book http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/

Library of Congress – Science Reference http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/

iTools.com http://www.itools.com/

Microsoft Encarta http:// encarta.msn.com

HistoryCentral.com http:// www.multied.com /

WebElements http://www.webelements.com/

Historical Russia http:// www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian

Information Resources Collections of information Castles on the Web Nuclear Information Resource Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators THE Journal’s Educators Web Roadmap K12 Teaching & Learning Center Virtual fieldtrips Secrets of the Pharaohs Tower of London Tour Colonial Williamsburg National Health Museum Science Fieldtrips @ University of Houston

Collections of information

Castles on the Web

Nuclear Information Resource

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

THE Journal’s Educators Web Roadmap

K12 Teaching & Learning Center

Virtual fieldtrips

Secrets of the Pharaohs

Tower of London

Tour Colonial Williamsburg

National Health Museum

Science Fieldtrips @ University of Houston

Castles on the Web http://castlesontheweb.com/

Nuclear Information and Resources http://www.nirs.org/

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

THE Journal Educator’s Web Roadmap http://www.thejournal.com/highlights/roadmap/

K12 Teaching & Learning Center http://www.k12tlc.net

Virtual Tour: Secrets of the Pharaohs http:// www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/digging.html

Virtual Tour: Tower of London http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0101/tower/tower2.html

Online Virtual Fieldtrips http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/virtdept/vft.html

The National Health Museum http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/virtual.html

Virtual Fieldtrips @ University of Houston http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/gpvirtual.html

Projects Long-term interdisciplinary Research Reading Writing Long-term Web projects GlobalSchool.net KidLink

Long-term interdisciplinary

Research

Reading

Writing

Long-term Web projects

GlobalSchool.net

KidLink

Children of Dreams http://www.gsn.org/programs/dreams/lessonplan.html

KidLink.org http://www.kidlink.org

Activities Online activities WebQuests Ideas/topic searches Offline activities Discussions Debates

Online activities

WebQuests

Ideas/topic searches

Offline activities

Discussions

Debates

WebQuests Internet inquiry-based activities “Online lesson plans” Provide challenging task, scenario, or problem to solve Provide resources for students Summarizing activity is meant to synthesize prior learning

Internet inquiry-based activities

“Online lesson plans”

Provide challenging task, scenario, or problem to solve

Provide resources for students

Summarizing activity is meant to synthesize prior learning

The WebQuest Page http:// webquest.sdsu.edu /

TechTrekkers WebQuests http:// www.techtrekers.com/webquests

Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes http://www.clta.net/lessons/

Civil War Activities http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/CivilWar.htm

Strategies for Internet Integration

Identify the Goal Link to Web sites that you find useful Create a page with the links Students can use your list for guidance Post your list on the Web to bookmark sites Create a classroom page with favorite sites

Link to Web sites that you find useful

Create a page with the links

Students can use your list for guidance

Post your list on the Web to bookmark sites

Create a classroom page with favorite sites

BackFlip http://www.backflip.com/

Bookmark Tracker http:// www.bookmarktracker.com /

Multimedia Scrapbook Internet links to media Students can discover artifacts on a topic Students can download the items to be used in presentations

Internet links to media

Students can discover artifacts on a topic

Students can download the items to be used in presentations

Filamentality http://www.filamentality.com/wired/fil/index.html

Mathematics Hotlist http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listmathmr48.html

Exploring China http://www.filamentality.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html

Science Unreal! http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/scrapsciencetr1.html

Treasure Hunts Find Web sites that hold information Pose one key question per page to define scope of topic Include a culminating higher order thinking skills activity

Find Web sites that hold information

Pose one key question per page to define scope of topic

Include a culminating higher order thinking skills activity

Black History Treasure Hunt http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html

Paper Airplanes http://phoenix.gov/AVIATION/kids/airplanes.html

Subject Sampler Prepare smaller variety of Web sites organized around a topic Choose intriguing sites Students are asked about their perspectives on topics, comparisons, etc.

Prepare smaller variety of Web sites organized around a topic

Choose intriguing sites

Students are asked about their perspectives on topics, comparisons, etc.

American Revolution Sampler http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/samplers/revolution.html

NASA: Centennial of Flight http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/aero/centennial/sampler.html

Putting it Together

How do I start? With the end in mind What is the intention? What do I want the end result to be? Focus on technology skills or production? What end results will I facilitate? Kelly, Deidre, “The Year Ahead”, Classroom Connect, September 2000, p. 16.

With the end in mind

What is the intention?

What do I want the end result to be?

Focus on technology skills or production?

What end results will I facilitate?

How do I start? Set goals for you and your students Teacher Goals: I want to feel confident when my students speak about the Internet. I want to learn how to use the Internet to find teacher materials. I want to integrate the Internet into my curriculum. Kelly, Deidre, “The Year Ahead”, Classroom Connect, September 2000, p. 16.

Set goals for you and your students

Teacher Goals:

I want to feel confident when my students speak about the Internet.

I want to learn how to use the Internet to find teacher materials.

I want to integrate the Internet into my curriculum.

How do I start? Set goals for you and your students Student Goals: I want my students to treat the Internet as a tool, not a toy. I want my students to learn how to use the Internet as a publishing tool. I want my students to learn how to use the Internet as a research tool. Kelly, Deidre, “The Year Ahead”, Classroom Connect, September 2000, p. 16.

Set goals for you and your students

Student Goals:

I want my students to treat the Internet as a tool, not a toy.

I want my students to learn how to use the Internet as a publishing tool.

I want my students to learn how to use the Internet as a research tool.

How do I start? Look at current curriculum with an eye towards where it may be lacking Do learners come out of the unit knowing enough information? Are the students actively engaged? Do they pursue higher-level thinking? Create a Web-based activity for the learning aspect that you would revise anyway (WebQuest, Treasure Hunt…)

Look at current curriculum with an eye towards where it may be lacking

Do learners come out of the unit knowing enough information?

Are the students actively engaged?

Do they pursue higher-level thinking?

Create a Web-based activity for the learning aspect that you would revise anyway (WebQuest, Treasure Hunt…)

How do I start? Once you feel comfortable with the tools, you change YOUR way of thinking Become creative and internalize the use of the tools NETS ( http://cnets.iste.org ) National Educational Technology Standards for teachers and students

Once you feel comfortable with the tools, you change YOUR way of thinking

Become creative and internalize the use of the tools

NETS ( http://cnets.iste.org )

National Educational Technology Standards for teachers and students

Teaching and Learning Carefully guided and structured Learners are engaged Students must understand exploration ( not playing around ) Students are investigating, asking questions, writing, etc. Developing reading, writing, and thinking skills.

Carefully guided and structured

Learners are engaged

Students must understand exploration ( not playing around )

Students are investigating, asking questions, writing, etc.

Developing reading, writing, and thinking skills.

Other Online Tools PuzzleMaker: online puzzles http://www.puzzlemaker.com TrackStar: online lesson format http://trackstar.hprtec.org/ QuizStar: online quizzes http://quizstar.4teachers.org/ eBoard: easy posting of information http://www3.eboard.com/ Filamentatility: creating activities http://www.filamentality.com/wired/fil/index.html

PuzzleMaker: online puzzles

http://www.puzzlemaker.com

TrackStar: online lesson format

http://trackstar.hprtec.org/

QuizStar: online quizzes

http://quizstar.4teachers.org/

eBoard: easy posting of information

http://www3.eboard.com/

Filamentatility: creating activities

http://www.filamentality.com/wired/fil/index.html

Integrating the Internet into the Secondary Classroom Steve Spengler [email_address] Coordinator of Educational Technology Colonial Intermediate Unit 20