Redesigning Your School Web
Site
Accessibility
Federal Accessibility Information: www.section508.gov
Measure accessibility by validating with Bobby: http://webxact.watchfire.com/
Microsoft Usability Research: www.microsoft.com/usability/
Usable Information Technology: www.useit.com/
Usable Web: http://usableWeb.com/
Validator: http://validator.w3.org
W3 Consortium: www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
Web Able: www.Webable.com
WebAIM: www.Webaim.org
About.com Web Design: http://Webdesign.about.com/compute/Webdesign/
Bad Human Factors Designs: www.baddesigns.com/index.shtml
Building Web Sites for Kids: www.builder.com/Graphics/Kids/
Elements of Web Design: http://builder.cnet.com/Graphics/Design/
Macromedia Web Site Production Management: http://macromedia.com/resources/techniques/
Navigation Design: www.builder.com/Graphics/NavSpotlight/
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): www.w3.org/consortium
Yale Style Guide on Page Design: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/pages/page_design.html
Evaluation
Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Critical Evaluation of Information: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
Evaluating Web Pages: www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/page0.html
netTutor Evaluation of Web Sites Tutorial: http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les1/index.html
University of Washington’s Web Site Evaluation Worksheet: http://staff.washington.edu/rells/effective/wksheet.html
Yahoo Education Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/Education
Usability
Designing More Usable Web Sites: www.techlearning.com/content/ednews
Microsoft Usability Page: www.microsoft.com/usability/
Usable Information Technology: www.useit.com
User Interface Engineering: www.uie.com
Forever Changed
Conners Emerson School: www.emerson.u98.k12.me.us
First Lego League International: www.firstlegoleague.org
Google: www.google.com
Maine Learning Technology Inititive: www.state.me.us/mlte
National Geographic's MapMachine: www.nationalgeographic.com
Transferring Knowledge with Technology
eJournal: http://www.aurbach.com/eJ/index.html
Journal Zone: www.journalzone.net
Logo (all versions): http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/logo-foundation/
Logo Computer Systems Inc.: www.microworlds.com
Launching a PBL Project
In addition to Diane McGrath’s PBL Web site, which expands on resources
mentioned in the PBL columns, with annotations and further links, you may also
find the following resources useful.
Classroom Connect’s Quest Channel (http://quest.classroom.com) allows
students to explore historic and scientific wonders. They virtually
journey all over the globe to learn about the environment, ancient and
modern cultures, and the stories that bring these cultures to life.
Through the Quest Web site, students can help decide on a team’s
route, participate in ethical debates, and contribute ideas to current
research.
Classrooms@Work/Tools@Hand (www.netc.org/classrooms@work),
provided by the National Educational Technology Consortium, links to
three technology-rich classroom projects for Grades 4/5, 8, and 9
designed to help teachers learn how to do PBL with technology. It is a
good site for understanding what interdisciplinary projects look
like.
Exemplary Projects (www.pblnet.org/) is a resource page
for middle school teachers, designed by DesignWorlds for Learning (with
support from WestEd and the U.S. Department of Education Regional
Technology in Education Consortium). The site includes 12 excellent
project descriptions including standards, scenarios, tasks, and
assessments.
Global Schoolhouse devotes a portion of their Web site to helping you
find and/or make networked PBL projects. You can browse through project ideas
and sort them by age level and subject.
GLOBE (www.globe.gov) is a worldwide hands-on,
primary and secondary school–based science and education program
that trains teachers to help students improve their achievement in
science and math and in the use of computer and network technology.
iEARN—International Education and Resource
Network—(www.iearn.org)
enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to
engage in collaborative educational projects.
The Jason Project (www.jason.org) explores Earth and
exposes students to leading scientists who work with them to examine its
biological and geological development.
Project Approach (www.project-approach.com), by
Sylvia Chard, an associate professor of early childhood education in
Edmonton, Alberta, contains a good set of resources for teachers of
younger students. It includes examples for Grades PK–K, 1–3,
and 4–6.
Project-Based Learning + Multimedia (http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/examples_main.htm),
by the San Mateo County (California) Office of Education, provides
examples of projects for Grades 4, 7, and 12, including getting started,
time lines, and assessments in three subject areas.
Project Based Learning—What Works! presents outlines of projects
in five secondary subject areas and three school settings. It shows driving
questions and problems, alignment with standards, activities, and assessments.
Forging Ahead
Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based
Modeling: http://ccl.northwestern.edu
Macromedia Flash: www.macromedia.com/software/flash/
Poetry Forge: www.poetryforge.org
Effective Integration
Apple Learning Interchange: http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/nav5.shtml
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: www.ascd.org/
California Learning Resource Network: http://clrn.org
Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology: http://caret.iste.org
Connected University: http://cu.classroom.com/logon.asp
Distance Learning Resource Network: www.DLRN.org/
ISTE National Educational Technology Standards: http://cnets.iste.org/
Lab National Network: www.nwrel.org/national/
LightBridge reports: available by e-mail from cradler@earthlink.net
MarcoPolo: www.marcopolo-education.org
No Child Left Behind: www.NoChildLeftBehind.gov
State of the State Standards 2000: www.edexcellence.net/library/soss2000/2000soss.html
TeachTech reports: available by e-mail from cradler@earthlink.net
Technology Innovation Challenge Grants: www.ed.gov/Technology/challenge/grants1.html—search
here for information and reports from all Challenge Grants, including Hawaii
E-School and Just in Time.
Telemation Project: www.wested.org/techpolicy/telemation.html
U.S. Department of Education: www.ed.gov/index.jsp
A Model for Technology Integration
C*R*E*A*T*E for Mississippi Web site: www.create4ms.org
Profiler: http://profiler.hprtec.org
Let's Give 'em Something to Talk About
Real Lives, Educational Simulations: www.educationalsimulations.com
Zoo Tycoon, Microsoft: www.microsoft.com
Math Arena Advanced, Sunburst Software: www.sunburst.com
Dr. Peet's Talk/Writer, Interest-Driven Learning, Inc.:
www.drpeet.com
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