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Publication Date: 1997-May
Pages: 55
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Building Student-Centered Web Sites in the K12 Classroom.
Hall, Alison; Basile, Brigitte
This paper examines the process of constructing a student-centered World Wide Web site and provides recommendations for improving this process. In the project, preservice teachers instructed the fifth grade students about how to design and develop a Web site on weather. The topics of the sessions included Internet ethics, using the Web, pre-planning and storyboards, and Web site construction. The project modeled the use of the Web in conjunction with classroom instruction. The goals of this project were to build a student-centered Web site; to use technology to reinforce instruction; and to provide students and teachers with a curriculum-based Web site that is a useful and relevant resource. The paper includes six chapters: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Background" including unproductive roles of technology in the past, barriers to use of technology; educational applications of the Internet, the World Wide Web, advantages to building student-centered Web sites, cooperative learning, collaboration methods for Internet projects, evaluation methods, Web page design, and HTML (HyperText Markup Language); (3) "Purpose and Rationale" of use of technology in instruction; (4) "Method" of the project, which consisted of tutoring a small group of eight students about the process so that they in turn could eventually teach their classmates; (5) "Evaluation Methodology"; and (6) "Summary and Conclusions." Appendices include: a list of components in a complete storyboard, Weather Wizards Website, Interview questions for participating students and Interview questions for Inservice teachers. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/JAK)
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Language: English
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