Rational: Engaging students in online learning tasks is a lifetime learning experience. Our students will never know a world without computers and instant access to information. It is our job to be sure that they develop the knowledge and skills necessary to find and interpret good sources of information. Designing and using online learning projects for students is one way to be sure that they use reviewed, rich, and up to date web resources for their learning.

Begin Here
Define the Types of Online Activities

A Treasure Hunt about Web Based Learning

Use the Graphic Organizer provided for note taking and summarizing your findings about the kinds of online learning in the first 2 sections.

Next

Explore the Web Learning Experiences

Finish Your Plan

Refer to the information you have gathered today and use the links below to search for activities to take back and use in your classroom with your students.

**Remember: When using "ready made" web hunts or web quests, ALWAYS, check all the links to be sure they work on your machine and the student login.

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Internet Integration Activity Formats

Topic Hotlist:
A collection of sites that you find most useful/interesting/peculiar on your topic posted on a Webpage for easy student access.  To be used in conjunction with a specific unit of study (that you may already have prepared).  This could also be a student-developed list.

Example Topic Hotlist - China on the Net
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/hotlist.html

Multimedia Scrapbook:
Essentially a hotlist containing links to a variety of media and content types (photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations, sound clips, videos, virtual reality tours, etc.) that learners explore and use for download into their own presentations. 

Example Multimedia Scrapbook -  Exploring China
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html  

What are Micro Quests?

Treasure Hunt/Scavenger Hunt:
Used when the goal is to develop solid knowledge about a particular subject.  Find Web pages that hold information (text, graphic, sound, video, etc.) that you feel is essential to understanding the given topic.  Pose one key question for each link (10-15).  Include a culminating Big Question so students can synthesize what they have learned.

Example Treasure Hunt – Black History Past to Present
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html  

Subject Sampler:
Learners are presented with a smaller number (half dozen) of intriguing Web sites organized around a main topic.  Choose sites that offer something interesting to do, read, or see.  In this case, students are asked to respond to the Web-based activities from a personal perspective, rather than gathering hard knowledge.

Example Subject Sampler - My China
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/sampler.html  

WebQuest:
An inquiry activity that presents groups of students with a challenging task, provides access to an abundance of (usually) online resources and scaffolds the learning process to prompt higher order thinking.  Current events, controversial social and environmental topics or scientific hypothesizing work well with this format.

Example WebQuests

Tuskegee Tragedy
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/tuskegee_quest.html

The Big Wide World
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bww

Little Rock 9, Integration 0
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/little_rock

How do I choose what is right for my
students and Objectives?

Web Activities When, Why, and How?

2. Next: Using the graphic organizer provided "brainstorm" how you can use the online learning models in your classroom

Five Ways to Know you have a Good Topic

1. The topic is curricularly worth the time and effort it takes to create an activity and then use it in the classroom with students.

2. You suspect there's great stuff on the Web to support this topic.

3. People in the real world (not only those gathered in classrooms) might find the topic of interest and value.

4. Whether you actively pursue it or leave it to students to make the connections themselves, the topic lends itself to a cross curricular perspective.

5. You're excited just thinking about doing this activity with students.

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/

http://www.techtrekers.com/webquests/#Social%20Studies

http://bestwebquests.com/

http://eduscapes.com/sessions/travel/mhswebquests.htm

http://www.manteno5.org/webquest/middle/middle.htm

http://www.nelliemuller.com/Junior_High_WebQuests.htm

http://webquest.org/search/

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/materials.htm

Find Scavenger/Treasure Hunts:

http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/secedScavenger.html

http://icteachers.co.uk/children/cyberhunts/matshunt.htm

http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/Scavenger.html

http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~cdavis01/webbits/index.html

http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/hunts/

Micro Quest Examples

Templates for Online Activities

Planning Sheet for Online activities

WebQuest Templates:

• Template 1
• Template 2
• Template Collection by process
• Web Quest Generator

• Template 1

Subject Sampler- Click this link to guide you through creation of a sampler

• Template 1