Supporting Internet Research in the Classroom
Posted by Eric M. on November 26, 2006 in Internet Research, Word
In a recent podcast, Wesley Fryer compared the internet to a buffet. Food buffets provide a variety of choices, some of which are not healthy options. Likewise, the information landscape has an overwhelming variety of choices, and not all of the sources of information are safe to use.
Students do not naturally make the best choices about what web sites to use and how to process the information they find. Instead, they need guidance from their teachers about what sites to use and how to organize the information they gather.
There are many web sites that offer advice about what questions students should consider about the web sites they use. In short, they suggest having students look for evidence that the web site has a credible and objective author as well as up to date and accurate content.
I also recommend providing students with a template to record notes and citation information as they browse web sites. This Word document has sections for students to record citation information and thoughts about the reliability of the site, and a place to copy and paste text and images from the web site.
Recommended Links for Evaluating Web Sites
- Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask (from UC Berkeley)
- Evaluation Criteria: authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage (from New Mexico State University Library)
- Kathy Schrock’s critical evaluation surveys (in pdf and Word formats)
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Simple Steps to Creating a Slideshow in PowerPoint
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Once you have transferred pictures from your document camera to a computer, it is very easy to insert them into PowerPoint to create a slideshow. This document shows 10 simple steps to creating a slideshow in PowerPoint.
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Managing Web Sites for Use with the Presentation Station
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This document describes how to organize favorites in Internet Explorer into categories. This will help you create a library of web sites on your presentation station that you can easily find when needed. Alternatively, the document also shows how you can insert hyperlinks into a Word document. This makes it possible for you to distribute sets of links to students by making the Word document available on a building file server.
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Posted by LeAnn on November 9, 2006 in Tools and Applications
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- Downloading Images from the Doc. Camera (Windows XP)(.pdf)
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Podcasts as a Learning Tool
Posted by Gary on November 8, 2006 in Podcasting
Podcasts (audio and video) are quickly becoming an essential component to the integration of technology into classroom instruction. Podcasts can be found for a variety of educational topics. Podcasts are available by subscription. When you subscribe to a podcast, new episodes download automatically when available. One example of an educational podcast is Longfellow Middle School students in Wisconsin created a podcast to share their interpretation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (can be found in the Podcasts Directory). Organizations like CNN, NPR, PBS, and National Geographic post free podcasts for classroom use.
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For this activity you will use an application called Phototstory 3 to create a movie using captured images and audio recordings to describe the new ways you are using your presentation station.
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