CUE - Spring 1996

Wired Learning: ISDN Applications for Classrooms and Libraries

Presented at the 1996 National Spring CUE Conference
May 11, 1996
by Linda Hyman, Jodi Reed, Tom March, & Bernie Dodge

As part of the Education First Initiative, Pacific Bell has funded three fellowships at San Diego State University's Department of Educational Technology in the College of Education. The Education First Fellows (AKA the "Applications Design Team") are creating Internet and videoconferencing applications for K-12 schools, community colleges, and public libraries. Wired Learning shares compelling projects, lessons, activities, resources, references, and tools developed to support learning.

Wired Learning URL: http://hupa2.kn.pacbell.com/wired

Featured New Releases!

We've organized our favorite Internet educational applications into a table and searchable database. Each application includes a description, URL, and keywords (for searching). Applications are classified by audience, content area, application type, and Dewey Decimal number.

How do you get started integrating the wealth of the Web into your learning environment? Spin a thinking Web. Filamentality is an Interactive Website that guides you through creating three different types on Web pages (a hot list, a treasure hunt, and an activity page).

Scaffolding Online Learning

Bernie Dodge

Thinking and Communication Skills for Internet-Based Learning: The guides included at this Web site are being prepared as resources for use by teachers creating internet-based lessons and units. Designed to be used by students down to the sixth grade level, each guide describes a specific thinking or communicating skill or technique.

What Else is at Wired Learning?

Around the Web in Eighty Minutes: A quick tour of sites for librarians includes Reference Sources, other library catalogs, catalogued Internet sites, Web and Netscape tutorials, technology tips, and links to creating web-based activities or instructional units.

Where to Locate Grant Information on the Web: A resource for educators in search of dollars. Includes special search engines, examples of some grants, and a link to a frequently updated grant resource.

Kiddie Lit on the Net: A fun place to read stories together. Some stories are interactive and allow the reader to make decisions. Also includes games and book reviews.

Videoconferencing for Learning: This resource helps teachers and librarians use videoconferencing effectively.

Eyes on Art: This activity begins by introducing elementary students of art to the developed skill of "learning to look" artistically. Subsequent activities include "2 Views 4 U" which juxtaposes two interestingly paired paintings and the Eyes on Art Quiz.
Nonprofit Prophets: A Web-Based Community-Action Project: In this project, student teams identify social or environmental problems in their own or the global community and create a shared Web site with an actual nonprofit organization.

Searching for China: A WebQuest: This web-based activity engages social studies, language arts and humanities students is answering the question: What should be done about China? Students take on the roles of a business investor, a human right activist, a religious leader, a museum curator, and a state senator to answer this question from multiple perspectives. See Bernie Dodge's About WebQuests for details about this kind of activity.
What's On the Web?: This article was featured in the CUE Newsletter (summer 1995) and introduces the World of the Web to educators.

Last revised May 9, 1996
By the SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellows
Applications Design Team/Wired Learning
URL: http://hupa2.kn.pacbell.com/wired/pubs/CUE96/spring
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