Chapter 6

Teaching With Educational Websites and Other Online

Resources

Key Points of Chapter 6

• Managing Information Electronically • Building Your Own Standards

Connector• WebQuests and Virtual Field Trips• Educational Websites as Teaching

Resources• Using Educational Websites

Interactively

Managing Information Electronically

• Bookmarking for Teachers– Bookmarks (Favorites)

• Using Social Bookmarking– Social Bookmarking

• Information Alerts and RSS Feeds– Information Alerts– RSS Feeds (Really Simple Syndication)

• Sites updated frequently (Blogs, News Sites)

Basically a shortcut for getting to a website

Expands the concept of individual bookmarking

from one user/one computer to a

community of users on many computers.

Information alerts are just that, alerts about

information. RSS Feeds are sites that

are updated frequently like blogs

and news sites.

Building Your Own Standards Connector

• Organizing Web Resources– Standard Connector

• Involving Your Students in Learning the Standards

A Standards Connector is a collection of Web resources that facilitate teaching required

topics. It is an easy way to manage info and store materials you need for topics in your

classroom.

Involving students in reviewing and selecting resources for a standards connector

supports academic learning in three ways.. (You can find them on the top of page 153 in

your book)

WebQuests and Virtual Field Trips

• WebQuests

• Taking Virtual Field Trips

• Interactive Videoconferencing

WebQuests are inquires by students that are

designed and guided by teachers. Kind of like an electronic treasure hunt.

Virtual field trips take students to places all over

the world without ever leaving their school’s

classroom.

Interactive videoconferencing allows students from anywhere

to be present in classrooms via webcam

or cameras.

Educational Websites as Teaching Resources

• Lesson Plan Websites• Student-To-Expert Communication Websites• Real-Time and Recorded Data Websites• Archival and Primary Source Websites• Skills/Practice Websites• Exploration and Discovery Websites

These are all examples of the different types of Educational Websites.

(There is a list of specific websites in the

book on pages 158-162)

Using Educational Websites Interactively

• Mysteries of Catalhoyuk! An Archaeological Investigation– http://smm.org/catal

• The Goody Parsons Educational Website– http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/parsons/goodyparsons/h

ome.html

• Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground– http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/the_book/index.h

tml

Check out at least one of these websites and play around with it and tell me what you think in a blog comment. Feel free to look at more than one!!!