Rubric for this class - This salary point class requires 16 hours of class time plus 32 hours of homework in which you will create an educational resource as a webpage project.

1 - Page offers useful educational information which clearly reflects your chosen theme and stated purpose. (35 points)

2 - Website contains at least:

• Navigation bar and cover page
• five addtional pages
• one table on each (10 points)
• images related to your theme (15 points)
• five (5) working  bookmark links - within your own web (10 points)
• five (5) working outside links to sites related to your theme (25 points)
• a working e-mail link (5 points)

3- Lesson includes assessment tool.

 

Homework:

The URL of this page is
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Lincoln_HS/Burleson/Icourse/classpub.htm

1- Access the on-line tutorial and follow the directions for setting up your page.
(You may print it out at home.)

(FrontPage Editor)
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Lincoln_HS/Burleson/Icourse/FrntPg-Tutor/FPtutor.htm

(Netscape Composer Editor)
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Lincoln_HS/Burleson/Icourse/CHPtutor3.htm

(Claris HomePage Editor)
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Lincoln_HS/Burleson/Icourse/CHPtutor.htm

2- Complete your tasks and confer with your team-mates via e-mail.

Work on your particular pages of the web. Be sure to offer some meaningful information related to your theme (not just a page of links). Next session we will refine your pages and link them all together with your team.

If you have samples of students' work related to your project, bring them on a disk, and you can add them to your page. (parent Permission required)

If you don't have an HTML editor, you can download the latest Internet Explorer (with FrontPage Express webpage editor) or Netscape Communicator (with Composer webpage editor). Both are free programs.
For the more adventurous, you can learn the basic HTML code from NCSA or HTML Goodies.

Now, let's get started

Computer technology and Internet access, aside from being great motivators, are excellent tools for teachers to produce quality lessons and for students to produce quality work. In this Salary Point class we will create interactive, interdisciplinary, intercultural web-based lessons that you can take right back to your classroom and use with your students. You can even have your students participate in a community project or a Global CyberFair and publish their research results.

Creating lessons with the Internet

To create an interactive web-based lesson, ask yourself a few key questions:

1. What does a good lesson (in language arts - literature - Math - Science - Social Studies - Art - Music - Health) call upon the students to do?
2. How can the Internet facilitate this?
3. What specific Web-sites can you point them to, to begin their learning?
4. Once they have accessed the web-site, what do you want them to come away with?
5. What will they do with the information they have gleaned from the web?

For example, a good literature unit will call upon the students to

• Analyze themes and plot structure
• Recognize cause/effect relationships of event sequences
• Study character motivations
• Understand internal & external conflicts
• Determine significance of the setting (location & historical period)
• Look insightfully through the eyes the author
• Distinguish fact from fantasy
• Relate meaning to real-life experience and find viable solutions to problems
• Reflect upon what they learn
• Demonstrate what they learn

This list can easily be taken in bite-sized chucks to create interactive lessons. Click here for some examples.

A . Explore more possibilities.

 

 

B . Download the Template to create your website.

C. Select a theme and a team. (Exchange e-mail addresses.)

D . Get particular (narrow your choices).

E . Plan your web site, and divide your tasks.

Task #1 - Decide which standard your lesson will address. (Choose a content standard as well as a technology standard.) 

• LAUSD Standards
• Search for a California Content Standard
• National Education Technology Standards for Students

Task #2- Write an introduction stating the purpose of your website.

Task #3- Search for related sites on the Internet, and record the Name and URL (Internet address) of each site.

• Tiger Links (High School)
• LAUSDnet's Homework Help (K-12)

Task #4 - select images that relate to your theme.

• About.com Web Clipart
• Free Clipart
• Barry's Clip Art Server

Task#5 - Add appropriate music if you like.

• Free Midi Files

Task #6 - Develop a rubric to assess the outcome of your lesson

• Rubistar 

• Quia has tons of activities to incorporate into your online lesson.

 

Be sure to read these "Helpful Hints" for creating and refining your webpages.

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Some Finishing Touches

A little extra:

If you want to add music to your page, you may use this script (substituting the name of your midi file for "yourmusic.mid" )

<EMBED src="yourmusic.mid" hidden="true" align="baseline"
border="0" autostart="true">

or use the following to add the controls on the page (substituting the name of your midi file for "yourmusic.mid" )

<EMBED src="yourmusic.mid" align="baseline" border="0" width="50"
height="20" controls="smallconsole" autostart="true" loop="5">

Once your page is complete and ready for the world to see, it's time to submit your site to your school Sitemaster. 

Please take a minute to complete my Feedback form.

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© 1998, Dr. Carolyn O. Burleson - Instructor
E-mail - cburleso@lausd.k12.ca.us

My next class will be announced at
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Lincoln_HS/Burleson/internet.htm

Call (213) 633-1227 to register.

© 1998 - C.O. Burleson

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