Bancroft Grade 4 Online Workshop
A Simple Fact:
The only way that using the Internet, or technology in general, is going to be successful for you is if you can find ways of using it to enhance your current curriculum without significantly extending or complicating your lessons. However, you must accept the fact that in learning or applying anything new there must always be some additional time invested.
1. Starting Things Off
Begin the year with:
a) An intro to the Web & Web Browser
b) How about a scavenger hunt ( to familiarize them with navigation)
(e.g. cybersurfari)
c) Treasure Hunt -http://www.eduplace.com/projects/treasure.html
(alternate) QUIA http://www.quia.com/sh/1000.html
d) Sample- Read Across America Scavenger Hunt
http://www.springfield.k12.pa.us/elm/scavenger.html
e) Then a talk on plagiarism and citing sources (see worksheet)
f) A lesson on saving, copying and pasting (pictures and text)
Pictures
Place your mouse of the picture to be copied.
Click and Hold (a window opens and displays a number of choices)
Select either: Copy Image to Clipboard or Save Image to Disk
Text
Highlight the text you want to copy, then go to EDIT, and select "Copy"
Open a new Clarisworks document
From EDIT, "Paste" the text onto that new document
If you’re in Hyperstudio, simply "Paste" the text you copied onto a card
g) What you can and can’t do on these computers (limitations of tech and software) - avoid .ra , .avi, .pdf , and anything that requires downloading
ra = Real Audio avi = PC Video format pdf = Adobe Acrobat File
See if you can download and install Adobe Acrobat reader from this site :
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
2.Record Keeping
Encourage using a site to list assignments and web sites to use.
(e.g.) schoolnotes.com, ikeepbookmarks.com, Bancroft school web site
On these sites you might list the web sites for your class to use in a current project. It might also have the project itself listed here.
Advantages : Can work on at school and from home (flexible)
Don’t have to type in URLs (saves time)
Parents know the assignment (communication)
3. Search Engines and Directories
Web search engines (discourage wide use) Too time consuming
-general info (http://www.searchengines.com)
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/reviews/
-refining your search using advanced search features
-search engines for students
( Yahooligans, Kid’s Tools, Ask Jeeves For Kids, Searchopolis, KidsClick )
Let’s use Google as an example
Let’s also take a look at KidsClick
4. Samples
Sample of ideas (3 sample worksheets)
TFK- To lead into an exploration of this topic
Poetry- An intro leading to a biography of a poet
Stone Ages- Search and recover info (Bloom-Knowledge and Analysis)
Sample Lesson Ideas with Curriculum Integration
Book - Ancient Civilizations "Web Instructor" (Forest Technologies)
Page 30 Build a web and fill in the detail (Inspiration )
Page 31 Venn Diagram- Can apply this to many sites (Claris Draw)
Page 33 Typical worksheet- Review site and gather information
Page 34 Great multimedia Rubric ( e.g. for Hyperstudio project)
Page 37 Tie together online research and Letter Writing (Word Processing)
Page 42 A Lang. Arts lesson on "Citing Sources" and Plagiarism
Page 50 Before coming to the lab, build your (Hyperstudio) Storyboard
Page 56 Record keeping for group projects also worked on at home
5. Neat Training Tools
Digital Education Network (ACTDEN) http://www.actden.com/
Quia Online quizzes http://www.quia.com