INTRODUCTION
To receive graduate credit for the seminar on "Using the Internet as an Effective Science Teaching Tool," you must complete four of the following activities. In order to achieve credit you need to do the following two summary and evaluation procedures:
1. Send a summary of your activities to the class bulletin board. The summary should simply highlight the four activities you accomplished so that others know what you did.
2. Via postal mail, send copies of the products of your activities, and a brief evaluation stating how effective this product was with your students OR how you think it might be effective in your future teaching plans. This means that if you choose as one of your activities to make a web site for your course using Nicenet, you should print a copy of the "home page," and include that as part of your report. In addition to copies of each product, you should also include a cover sheet for your entire report which should include your name, address (street, city and zip), name of your school, your email address, and the brief summary that you sent to the class bulletin board. This report should be sent to Jack Hassard at the address at the top of this page.
These two should be completed by April 25, 1999. Your report should identify the activities that you choose, and should include evidence that you completed the activity.
E.GROUP
An e-mail list has been set up for the class. I used beseen.com to set up the list. If you have signed up for credit, you should join the group by completing the form below. After you join you can then send a message to ohio-seminar@egroups.com which will then be distributed to all class members who have subscribed to the group.
Subscribe to Ohio Internet Seminar
Enter your e-mail address:
ohio-seminar archive
An e-group hosted by eGroups.com
Please be an active participant in the class Bulletin Board. I have set up the Board using the beseen.com website. This means that you check in at least twice a week and read others' messages and respond to any instructor messages. Click here to connect to the Class Bulletin Board.
FIELD FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES
1. Design an Internet-based lesson on the template developed in the workshop (see pages 164-165 of the handbook). If possible, field-test the lesson plan with a group of students. 2. Design a scavenger hunt science lesson based on a topical area in science in which groups of students are assigned specific sub-topics. As an example link to the GTP Global Warming site at http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwgtp/globalwarm.html. 3. Use e-mail to collaborate with at least one other member of the workshop on a collaborative type activity, project, or discussion about the role of the internet in science teaching. See the listing below of class participants and their email addresses. 4. Develop a website using the Nicenet web site. Your website should show evidence that it is being used with one of your classes. If you can not use it with your class, show evidence of how you might use it. For example, you might in the "conference" section, include a description of an issue that you might have students write about. Or in the "Links" section, include one or two categories of science topics and then three or four links to sites you have found that will be useful for your students as they study this topic. 5. Use the Yahoo website and identify five websites on a topic you will be teaching in the next month. The websites should be posted on the course bulletin board. 6. Set up a bulletin board or chat room using the Beseen website as a source. To do this activity effectively, you will need to have a web page set up so that you can a link from your web page to the bulletin board or chat room. Note: you can make links to these two items from a Nicenet website. 7. Participate in the River Keepers project located at the CLEO website. This will mean that you will have your students monitor a river near your school and share data with the River Keepers Website. 8. Using the Cleo website, design a collaborative activity using the author section of CLEO to create your project. Try and use the activity with a group of your students, if possible. Choose this item only if you intend to use the project either this spring or next fall. 9. Provide evidence that you have joined one of the projects at the EnviroNet Website. This will entail visiting the website and joining one of the monitoring projects, e.g. "roadkill, ozone, salt lick, bird watch, whale net, etc." 10. Choose one of the Net Structures identified in the seminar and in the handbook (pp. 66-94) and design an activity that you would do with your students. Recall that there are 12 different Net structures.
2. Design a scavenger hunt science lesson based on a topical area in science in which groups of students are assigned specific sub-topics. As an example link to the GTP Global Warming site at http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwgtp/globalwarm.html.
3. Use e-mail to collaborate with at least one other member of the workshop on a collaborative type activity, project, or discussion about the role of the internet in science teaching. See the listing below of class participants and their email addresses.
4. Develop a website using the Nicenet web site. Your website should show evidence that it is being used with one of your classes. If you can not use it with your class, show evidence of how you might use it. For example, you might in the "conference" section, include a description of an issue that you might have students write about. Or in the "Links" section, include one or two categories of science topics and then three or four links to sites you have found that will be useful for your students as they study this topic.
5. Use the Yahoo website and identify five websites on a topic you will be teaching in the next month. The websites should be posted on the course bulletin board.
6. Set up a bulletin board or chat room using the Beseen website as a source. To do this activity effectively, you will need to have a web page set up so that you can a link from your web page to the bulletin board or chat room. Note: you can make links to these two items from a Nicenet website.
7. Participate in the River Keepers project located at the CLEO website. This will mean that you will have your students monitor a river near your school and share data with the River Keepers Website.
8. Using the Cleo website, design a collaborative activity using the author section of CLEO to create your project. Try and use the activity with a group of your students, if possible. Choose this item only if you intend to use the project either this spring or next fall.
9. Provide evidence that you have joined one of the projects at the EnviroNet Website. This will entail visiting the website and joining one of the monitoring projects, e.g. "roadkill, ozone, salt lick, bird watch, whale net, etc."
10. Choose one of the Net Structures identified in the seminar and in the handbook (pp. 66-94) and design an activity that you would do with your students. Recall that there are 12 different Net structures.
CLASS PARTICIPANTS
If your name or e-mail address is not listed, please email Jack Hassard to have it added to the class participant list.
Science Educator
E-mail Address
Grade level/content area
Karen Bonner
DCBONNER@stratos.net
4th grade
Joyce Goggs
st_groggs@neonet.k12.oh.us
Lena Planicka
st_planicka@neonet.k12.oh.us
Jenifer Maddox
minxj@aol.com
Patricia Fischer
ohio@eriecoast.com
5th grade
Judith L. Miller
jmiller8@bright.net
Barbara Mullen
bmullen@ohio.net
6th grade
Connie Smith
teamtribe@yahoo.com
Nicole Berno
teamtribe2@Yahoo.com
Bill Nettles
bnettles99@yahoo.com
Candyce Owens
miklite@aol.com
Deloris Warfield
jwarfield@bright.net
Sandra Scheman
SScheman@Brunswickschools.org
Laurie Pratt
Biology
Gary Uhl
gauhl@aol.com
Blake Johnson
blakerandall@yahoo.com
Biology/chemistry
Janet Brand
jbmmlm@mediawave.com
Earth science
Susan Burke
sburke@leeca.ohio.gov
Chemistry/general science
Cindy Langelier
chemgoddss@aol.com
Chemistry/life science
Susan Puhto
Chemistry/life science/math
Matt Smith
rsmith37@ix.netcom.com
Integrated Science/genetics
Wally Grobelny
chasedog5@aol.com
Integrated Science/7th grade
Tony Pink
iceowl@onecom.com
Integrated Science/9th grade
Darcie Salvagni
darcie.salvagni@inoca4.org
Jim Emigh
jemigh@leeca.ohio.gov
10th Grade
Chris Torrelli
r_torrelli@staff.chuh.org
11th Grade
Laurie Boediclcer
kat@ohio.net
Physics
Bob Duesing
betrink@earthlink.net
Fran Ratka
fratka1@aol.com
High School Astronomy
Chris Torrelli:
ctorrelli@euclid.k12.OH.US
Liz Emmer
eemmer@leeca.oh.gov
Diane Smith
FoxMe93068@aol.com
Pat Vujevich
coho@gte.com
6th Grade