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=Collaborate=


 * Click "Edit this page"
 * Without erasing your peers' work, add the following information to the page (YOU CAN PUT YOUR INFO UNDER MY EXAMPLE BELOW!):
 * Your name
 * The title, URL (hyperlink), and explanation of an online learning experience that you found and can use in your line of work
 * To make your URL live, highlight the text that you want to be the hyperlink then click on the hyperlink button (world with a chain below it in the "editor" box at the top of your screen) and type in the URL. Your hyperlink will only work after you click save then view it outside of the editor.
 * Click "Save", make sure your hyperlink works.
 * Return to this wiki throughout the week to see what your peers post!

Example: Dr. Fritz Mrs. Egan's Poetry Park @http://mrsegan.weebly.com/index.html At this site, the students participate in a Webquest about poetry. The teacher has podcast examples of certain types of poetry and also websites for the students to visit. They will also work together to create their own poetry.

Sam Stock Mrs. Szalay's "Splash into an Aquarium" [] This web exploration asks the students to think and read about different aspects of marine life- ocean habitats, tide pool animals, aquariums, etc. After web exploring, the student was required to create a diorama and explain to the class what habitat he/she chose, animals, etc. based on his/her findings. There was an interactive indvidual rubric/scoring sheet which I thought was great for the student's reflection.

Phil DeCrescente The Great Math Rally [] This Webquest is great for an elementary classroom. It has three main tasks. 1. To make a rally sign that explains why math is important 2. a list of ways that math is importnant in the real world 3. A letter with all of these points to the superintendant. This is a well thought out webquest because it goes across the curriculum from math, to literacy (letter writing), and to social studies (rallies, and letters to superintendants). Each step is very clearly mapped out for the student in words and visually. The rubric is "kid friendly" and very easy to understand. I thought this wass a great webquest and wouldn't mind doing it with my students.

Wes Robinson Recycling Plastics http://www.glencoe.com/sec/Tech_Ed/recycle.shtml This Webquest is all about recycling plastic. It starts out with a Intro talking about how we all use plastic products, but how if they are not disposed of correctly they can be harmful to the environment. It talkes about how there are different types of plastices and how they need to be recycled differently. After the intro the task is introduced. The task is: The Webquest then takes the students through the process of how they should complete these tasks. It then gives them some resources they can use and then finally ends with a conclusion of what the students should have learned. This Webquest is something that I could use in two different classes that I teach Power and Energy or Bio Technology. This is a topic that is relavant in todays society and would give the students a better understanding of why it is important to recycle.
 * 1) To learn about the different types of plastics and how they can be recycled.
 * 2) To explore the properties that make a material a plastic.
 * 3) To identify the seven different classes of plastics and discover how each type is used.
 * 4) To learn what kinds of items can be made from recycled plastics.
 * 5) To explore waste-to-energy systems that burn plastics and other wastes to produce energy.
 * 6) To fill out a table summarizing the recycling of plastics and answer three questions.

Dan Saska All Men are Created...Equal? http://kathyschrock.net/webquests/LAMB/index.htm At this site, students participate in a webquest that challenges their idea of equality in America. Students are required to investigate different types of groups that have been discriminated against at some point in U.S. history, and then pick a historical fiction book and compare what they found online to the book. Students then have to pick one "task" to complete to demonstrate understanding, ranging from writing a newspaper article to writing a letter to the President. I feel that this is an effective webquest because it challenges students preconceived notions about equality in America and incorporates literature into a social studies lesson.

Heather Mulford Coming to America: http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/immigration/index.html This site has an incredible lesson for a unit on Immigration. The students are assigned a different Immigrant group and make a video documentary. The documentary would be created using a FlipCamera. The documentary will celebrate the contributions of immigrants to our society, focusing on the following categories: social, philosophical, economic, political, entertainment and the arts. The students will gather their information through the web, keeping track and sorting their information and sources using a graphic organizer. I feel that this is an effective use of the internet because the will be responsible for researching their assigned Immigrant group, but there is a deep focus on specific concepts. I like this idea, but feel that I would have to give them more direction for their research. I really liked the idea though because it encourages them to get very creative and "Act out" their research and create a movie. I feel this will make their research much more meaninful.

I also liked the following idea: The Holocaust, A Webquest http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Winaker/webquest/mwi-fr-index.html This lesson is designed to specifically prove the innacuracies of people and groups that try and say the Holocaust did not happen. Students are given primary resources to research and disprove critics of the Holocaust. They are broken into groups and given two sets of resources, specific internet sources and non-internet sources. They are to use all of their available resources to create a PowerPoint presentation supporting the historical facts of the Holocaust. Primary sources of information will be used, including but not limited to: Diaries, Pictures, Documents (including Nazi documentation), and podcasts of interviews with Holocaust survivors. I like this project a lot because it not only provides the valuable resouce of Primary Resources, it also helps students to understand the importance of researching historical facts vs. fiction. Too many people (students and adults alike) think that just because something is on the internet, it must be true.