EDUC 464: Technology and theLearning Process

(formerly EDUC 450 - Internet for Educators Part II)

General Resources

• Dr. Zaenglein's Home Page
• Dr. Dishner's Home Page
• Pennsylvania Department of Education
• Capital Area Intermediate Unit (#15)
• Requesting Act 48 Credit
• Penn State University Webspace

Week One - Learning Theories

• Theory Into Practice Database
• Learning Theories
• Funderstanding - Engaging Kids

Week Two - Problem-Based Learning: Defining a Meaningful Problem

• Problem-Based Learning
• Center for Problem-Based Learning
• Project-Based Learning
• Project-Based and Problem-Based: Same or Different?
• The Brent Spar
• What was the Brent Spar?

Week Three - Defining and Exploring WebQuests

• Kathy Schrock's Home Page - WebQuest Slide Show
• Creating a WebQuest
• The WebQuest Design Process
• The WebQuest Page
• A Forest Forever

Week Four - Building Blocks of a WebQuest

• Building Blocks of a WebQuest
• Curriculum Units on the Web
• Searching for China
• Submarines: Where are they now?

Week Five - "A WebQuest about WebQuests": Quality Criteria

• A WebQuest about WebQuests
• Macomb County Index of WebQuests
• Samples of Student WebQuests
• NMSU Student WebQuests
• iWebQuest.com

Weeks Six and Ten - Developing Web Pages

• WebQuest Templates
• WebQuest Design Patterns
• Clip Art
• GIFs-4-Us
• Awesome Clip Art for Educators
• Music Graphics Galore
• Free Animations
• Education Animations
• The Amazing Picture Machine
• American Memory
• Clip Art Review: Sound Clips
• WAV Central

Week Seven - Describing the Learning Process and Student Tasks

• WebQuest Taskonomy
• Taskonomy Guide in Pictures
• Process Guides
• WebQuest Process Checklist
• List of WebQuests (Yorkville School District)
• List of WebQuests (Indiana Teacher Education)
• List of WebQuests (San Diego State University)
• Amazing Animals
• Wild Weather
• The Ultimate Money WebQuest
• Wanted: Better Bridge Builders
• Comet WebQuest

Week Eight - Finding Resources to Support Problem Solution

• Concept Mapping Home Page
• The Graphic Organizer
• Concept Mapping Software
• Sink or Swim - Internet Tools and Techniques
• Internet Roadmap for Educators
• Metacrawler
• Google
• EdWeb Links
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• Finding Resources - Presentation

Week Eleven - Developing Student Evaluation Procedures and Rubrics

• Building Blocks - Evaluation
• Rubrics for Web Lessons
• Rubric Generator
• RubiStar

Week Twelve - Evaluating WebQuests

• A Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests
• Some Samples

Week Thirteen - Evaluating the Impact of WebQuests on Student Learning

• Action Research

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