Index for Bridget Dukehart

Web Link Bibliography: This is my annotated bibliography of web sites for elementary teachers. This is a work in progress. I intend to update it continually and add to it on a regular basis. Links without annotation are awaiting my visit and review.

Article Reviews: These are the reviews of articles I've read about computers and using the Internet in educational settings.

Article Review #1 Submitted 9/26/02. Article from Electric School online journal concerning professional development online for teachers.

Article Review #2 Article from the Washington Post Magazine about Internet plagiarism by students and what teachers can do about it.

Web Quest This is a Web Quest for upper elementary students about severe weather and safety.

Drop-Ins:

Drop In #1-This is a quick activity for elementary students to look at animals from Australia and pick one to find out more about it, color a picture of it and report to the class their discoveries.

Drop In #2 Continues the theme of learning about Australia only this time students use a blank map printout worksheet to write the states, territories and capitals they find on an Internet map of Australia.

Drop In #3 This activity continues the theme of learning about Australia but this time students link to a map page with information they have to collect. After they collect this information, students link to a second map site on Australia’s rainfall. Students are asked to read the map and interpret where it rains the least and the most.

Drop In #4 This activity continues the theme of learning about Australia in order to compare and contrast it with the United States. Students will link to a map site to view the United States and gather information that corresponds to information gathered about Australia in Drop In #3. After they collect this information, students link to a rainfall map of the United States where they are asked to read and interpret the map for where it rains the most and the least.

Drop In #5 Since Drop-Ins 3 and 4 included the graphical representation of the information sought as required for Drop-In 5, I used this space to show the T chart and ask students higher level thinking questions. They can use any of the previous sites and some additional sites to help them answer the questions.

Internet Course Module: This course module takes students to an article about rubrics and links to sites of pre-made rubrics and rubric building sites.

1. AOL Instant Message. I submitted this 9/ 5 /02. No link is necessary.

2. Email Distribution list. I submitted this 9/ 12 /02. No link necessary.

3. Copyright Activity After, investigating information on the copyright law, I responded to the scenarios presented in the activity.

4. Search Tips. This is a Search tip list and a Search Tip Activity to help students learn to use search tips.

5. This is my foray into Net Happenings and Scout, link here, Net Happenings.

6. My views on Silicone Snake Oil by Clifford Stoll and related articles, Silicone Snake Oil.

7. Take a field trip to one of four ecosystems. Bon Voyage! Field Trip (pictures and text on web site came out differently than how I arranged them originally)

8. Here are my best finds of clip art. I would not recommend letting children search for clip art unless under child safe search engines or supervised. I was linked to two directories for clip art, which had several lewd and pornographic clip art sites in them. I found trying to find clip art very frustrating because of the pop-up ads and stupid links. Here are the few sources I found that were not too terrible. {Despite following the directions for graphics I was not completely successful in getting animations.}Clip Art

9. This is my list of “best” search engines in categories, link here, Search Engines.

10. Urban Legends Discussion Board no link needed.

11. This is an E-Mail Nettiquette guideline for fifth grade students. E-Mail Nettiquette

12. These are my discoveries and opinions about filtering. Filtering

13. I did the elective on teacher made web sites instead of the second Internet Course Module. Teacher Made Web Sites