The Student WebQuest:
A Productive and Thought-Provoking Use of the Internet
by Maureen Brown Yoder
K–12 teachers and administrators who are using the Internet in a safe and productive way with students have probably heard at least a little about WebQuests. Maureen Yoder details the history and development of WebQuests and how to make the best use of them.
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The Never-Ending Story: Questioning Strategies for the Information Age
by Cathleen Galas
Cathleen discusses how to organize learning around student questions as they drive a constructivist learning process in the classroom.
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Blast Off: A Project-Based Learning Model for Success
by Carol Utay and Joe Utay
Carol and Joe describe a high school and adult education project where students acted as reporters and covered a space shuttle launch. Visit the students’ Web site.
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Revolutions in the Classroom: Two Views of Technology
by Eileen Skarecki and Elaine Insinnia
Using the World Wide Web in the classroom requires a lot more of students--and a lot more of teachers—than ever before. Eileen and Elaine describe some of their ideas for using the Web with students in this month’s language arts article. The activities they describe are taken from their book Educators Take Charge: Teaching in the Internet Revolution. Read more about it at the ISTE Online Bookstore.
Surf and Serve: Student-Navigated and
-Designed Internet Service Learning Projects
by Rose Reissman
Service learning projects can get students really excited about their schoolwork. But why give students a list of projects you selected when they can research topics they are interested in on the Web and create their own projects? Rose Reissman’s students did just that. Visit the Web resources they started with.
The Museum in Our Classroom and the Mastodon in Our Backyard
by Beth Buchler
Beth Buchler (and teaching partner Ann Brown) worked together on an innovative grant proposal that partnered them with a local zoo and museum. In this science article, Beth describes how her students used technology to learn about dinosaurs in their local community. Her project addressed both NETS standards (http://cnets.iste.org) and Illinois state learning standards (www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/). Visit her students’ site and the other sites she mentions in the article.
Flashenlightenment
by Bob Albrecht and George Firedrake
In this month’s Power Tools for Math & Science column, Bob and George describe experiments you can do using denchi (battery) powered power tools. Visit the Web sites he recommends to learn more about these projects.
Come Dream with Us: Online Projects Teach More than Technology
by Leni Donlan
This month’s social studies article offers a look inside the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress as guided by the America Dreams WebQuest. Leni designed the project with Kathleen Ferenz. Visit the WebQuest’s home and various portions of the American Memory collection.
Creating a Mathematical Laboratory
by Louis Feicht
Have you limited your teaching of matrices to high school and advanced math students? No more. Spreadsheets make matrices easy to understand for middle school students. Visit the Web links Louis described in his article and find further resources on the teaching of matrices.
Project LINCOL’N: Improving and Enhancing Student Learning
by Michael J. Holinga
How can you help teachers integrate technology in the classroom? This month’s For Tech Leaders offering describes an innovative approach to technology staff development that resulted not only in effective teacher use of technology but also in improved student performance as measured by grades and standardized tests. Visit the Project LINCOL’N site and other resources.
Mining the Internet Online
by Glen Bull, Gina Bull, & Judi Harris
Mining the Internet is an ongoing column in L&L. Frequently the Internet changes substantially in the six months between the time that a column is submitted and the time it appears in print. The Mining the Internet Web site will provide a location for updates to each issue’s column. It will also provide a way to offer active links to Internet locations mentioned in the column and a place for material that would not fit in the confines of a four-page column. The column will therefore become a hybrid mix of print materials that will appear in each issue of L&L and supplementary materials that will be placed on the Web each month.
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