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Project- Based Learning: Online

Contents:
1. Steps to a Successful Online Project
2. Web-Based Activities and Projects
3. Learn by Communicating: Options
4. Internet in the Classroom
5. Searching and Finding
6. Tools for Sharing Resources

1. Steps for a Successful Online Project

§ Think about your curriculum standards and goals.

§ Go online to see how other teachers are structuring projects.

§ Develop the type, topic, and content for your project.

§ Design your project with specific goals, tasks, and outcomes.

§ Develop an evaluation tool (rubric) that supports the project.

§ Set specific beginning and ending dates for your project.

§ Review the process, answer questions and address concerns.

§ Share the results of the project with all participants.

Publish results if applicable.
2. Web-Based Activities and Projects
WebQuests--An inquire-oriented activity using web-based resources.
• Delivers inquiry-based learning

• Promotes effective use of the Internet

• Promotes higher level thinking skills

• Provides real world experiences

• Promotes cooperative learning

Hotlists--A list of Internet sites that are related to a topic, subject, and/or project.

• Provides appropriate resources

• Requires no searching

• Allows more "time on task"

Scrapbooks--A scrapbook is a collection of Internet sites organized around specific

categories such as, photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations, sound clips, videos,
virtual reality tours, etc.

Treasure Hunts A treasure hunt is an activity in which one searches for clues and
answers.

Educational Portals http://www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us/html/portals.html

Examples: WebQuests: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

Web Projects: http://www.coollessons.org/
Busy Teacher: http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.html
Explore projects online: http://www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us/summer/index.html
3. Learn by Communicating: Options
Keypals
• electronic pen pals www.epals.com

• Foreign Language Classes

Global classrooms
• two or more classes

• study a common topic

• share information or their findings

• related to current events

Ask-an-expert
• Access to specialists in a variety of fields

• Provides information on a specific topic

• Answers difficult questions not found in traditional resources

• Brings a certain level of expertise to the curriculum

http://www.askanexpert.com
http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html

Information collection
• data collected from multiple sites

• data analyzed by students

• data collection via: surveys, polls, weather statistics, sports

statistics

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

Online field trips

• Simple: sharing info about their community

• Complex: monitoring an expedition to reach the North Pole

 • Examples: Museums, Galleries, Educational institutions

• http://www.exo.net/%7Epauld/index.html

• http://www.si.edu

• http://www.exploratorium.edu/index.html

Explore Ancient Egypt

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Electronic Publishing
• publish original works via online newspaper, poetry anthology, or
magazine

• publish online web pages

• publish online digital autobiography

• publish online electronic portfolio

• sometimes peers and/or experienced authors offer feedback

• http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/teacher_services/shared/dforrest/H
CH_home.html

Problem-solving activities
• similar problems presented to two or more classes

• take turns presenting problems

• teams of students use telecommunications technology to plan

strategies, share results, and solve problems collaboratively

Social action projects

• focus on real world problems

• students brainstorm solutions to world issues

• bring awareness to certain world issues

Real World Math: http://www.nationalmathtrail.com

RainForest http://www.saverainforest.net/
4. Internet in the Classroom
Online Tutorials
• www.atomiclearning.com
Instructional units for classroom related software, 30 seconds to 3
minutes of online video instruction. Multiple free sample lessons on a
variety of software. $49.99 per year to subscribe.

• http://www.actden.com
Free online software tutorials and online courses for Office, PowerPoint,
and FrontPage.

• www.vtco.com Instructional units for software. Samples available

online.

• http://www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us/Staff_Development/Online_lessons/o
nline_lessons.htm

• http://www.ed2go.com/ (SMART Center for fee information)

• http://www.nsglobalonline.com

• http://www.microsoft.com

• http://www.ali.apple.com

Online References
• http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html
Calculate almost anything online.

• www.refdesk.com
Your source for finding facts on the Internet. (Bartlett's Quotations, Encyclopedia,
Maps, Thesaurus, Dictionary, World Fact Book, Zip Codes)

• http://www.libraryspot.com/encyclopedias.htm

• http://www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us/Resources/sresources/englishsites/e
nglishsites.htm

Student e-mail
• http://www.fepg.net/ A source for free e-mail providers.

• http://www.hotmail.com

• www.gaggle.net
Online Quizzes and Puzzles
• http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com

• www.quia.com

Virtual Field Trips

• • –http//www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Interactive Sites
• http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html

• http://www.biologylab.awlonline.com/

• http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

• http://www.medtropolis.com/

5. Searching and Finding

Directories
• Subject-tree listings

• Built by human staffers

• Easy to use

• Best for beginners

Search engines
• Search by keyword

• Updated by software spiders

• Crawl over Internet constantly searching for new sites

• Build indexes to all material

Meta-search engines
• Access multiple engines and directories

• Search all tools by keyword

• Simultaneous search

Specialty Search Engines

• Primary sources:
http://www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us/html/primary_sources.html

• Images on the web: http://www.ditto.com

• Invisible web: http://www.invisibleweb.com

• Search Engine Guide-http://www.searchengineguide.com

• http://www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us/html/specialities.html

Expert Sites
• http://www.abuzz.com

• http://www.answerpoint.com

• http://www.Askme.com

• http://www.askanexpert.com

Handout: Searching and Finding

http://www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us/Finding.PDF

6. Tools for Sharing Resources

Hard Drive Space on the Internet
• http://www.mydocsonline.com

• http://www.freedrive.com

• http://my.yahoo.com (Click briefcase link in the inside Yahoo--bottom

of page)

Advantages
 • Provide storage for specials project files

• Provide backup for important documents

• Can be easily shared

• Accessible by students at home, at school, at any Internet computer

Online Bookmarks
• Blink: http://www.blink.com

• Clickmarks.com http://www.clickmarks.com

• Hotlinks.com- http://www.hotlinks.com

Advantages
§ Provide storage for important Favorites/Bookmarks

§ Accessible anywhere by students

§ Create special bookmarks for student activities/projects

§ Provide backup for Favorites/Bookmarks

Teacher Web Sites

• Tripod http://www.tripod.com

• Schoolnotes.com http://www.schoolnotes.com

• Teacherweb http://www.teacherweb.com

Advantages
§ Accessible anytime, anywhere

§ Good forum for students to create projects

§ No editors necessary-free

Filamentality an online authorizing tool

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/