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Unit Planning Resources
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Assessment and Rubric Information
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
This Discovery Channel site provides links to numerous resources related to assessment of student work, including rubrics (general, subject-specific, Web page, and technology skills), electronic portfolios, and report cards.
Rubistar: Create Rubrics for Your Project-Based Learning Activities
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
This 4Teachers site features a flexible tool that generates ready-made
rubrics for numerous performance competencies (oral presentations,
products, multimedia use, etc.) and subjects. Teachers choose rating
scales and assessment criteria, and may add, delete, or change any text.
Rubric Builder
http://landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/rubric_builder.php
This Landmark Project site provides access to a searchable database of
teacher-created rubrics that can be cloned and/or edited. It also
provides a tool that simplifies the task of creating a rubric from
scratch. Rubrics can be saved, edited, and made available to others.
Scoring Guide for Student Products
http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/sgsp/index.html
The North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium developed
a set of standards for evaluating all student work that is produced
using computers. This scoring guide evaluates content knowledge and the
effective use of technology in communicating ideas and information
(text, image, voice/sound, design, presentation, and interactivity).
Some categories are fixed, others customizable.
Copyright
Easybib.com
http://www.easybib.com
This site provides a free user-friendly tool for compiling a
correctly-formatted bibliography.
Noodle Tools
http://www.noodletools.com/
This site offers a suite of interactive free and fee-based tools to help
people with online research. â??Quick Citeâ?? is a free tool that
generates an MLA-style citation for a single source (in simplified
version for younger students).
FAIR USE GUIDELINES FOR EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA
http://www.indiana.edu/~ccumc/copyright/ccguides.html
This site has the original document created to define new fair use
guidelines for the creation of multimedia projects by educators and
students who use portions of lawfully acquired copyrighted works. Many
interested groups come together to cooperate on this project.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Copyright Resources
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/referenc.html#copyright
This Discovery Channel site provides links to permission forms and sites
with valuable guidance to educators on correct use of intellectual
property (copyright, plagiarism, citing sources, bibliographies, etc.).
Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the
World Wide Web
http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html
This University of Maryland site explains fair use of Web text, images,
audio, and video in lay terms, and offers guidance on using copyrighted
materials for educational multimedia.
Databases
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Evaluating
Resources
Web Wise Guide to evaluation
http://www.edmonds.wednet.edu/mths/Research/web_wise.htm
Gail Anderson has created a web page to help the students and staff at
her high school evaluate and cite web resources.
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
This UC Berkeley site offers a useful four-part process for evaluating
Web pages, including examining the URL, the perimeter of the page,
indicators of quality, and what others say.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Critical Evaluation Information
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
This Discovery Channel site contains a wealth of articles and tools to
help students learn to evaluate the reliability of online information.
Among the most useful tools are critical evaluation surveys that Schrock
developed for different grade levels and a number of sites to use with
students to practice critical evaluation skills.
The Web: Teaching Zack to Think
http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html
This online article (written by Alan November for High School Principal
magazine) makes a compelling case for teaching students to critically
evaluate online information. He advocates the use of several techniques,
which he groups into three main categories: Purpose, Author, and
Meta-Web Information.
Searching Tips
Four NETS for Better Searching
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm
This site teaches four simple techniques for improving Web searches on
Google, each providing the user a better NET for catching information.
Joyce Valenza has valuable Searching Tips to help us mine the riches of the Internet in this
Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
This tool describes how leading search engines work and also offers tips
for conducting effective information searches.
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html
Librarians at UC Berkeley developed a five-step strategy for conducting
effective information searches, which they call analyze your topic and
search with peripheral vision.
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Unit
Planning Resources
Blue Web'n-Blue Ribbon Learning
Sites CIESE Online Projects Discovery Education with link to Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators The Gateway to Educational
Materials Library of Congress: American
Memory Page:
http://memory.loc.gov/ MarcoPolo Search Engine National Geographic Xpeditions: "Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards- and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life." Focus on geography, natural science, culture, environment. Newzcrew "The Newz Crew is a place where high school students can connect with each other in small Youth Circles and learn about the current events that are affecting your lives." Current site devoted to issues stemming from the 9/11 terrorism. OSPI EALRS and GLE's PBS Teacher Source (Browse by subject) "Teacher lesson plans, online activities, classroom resources, and professional development projects are available at the public PBS education Web site." Primary Sources: National Archives Social Studies CBAs: Primary Sources United Streaming Video Library and Lesson Plans: "4,000 videos, 40,000 video clips, Thousand of Images." Get your log-in, password set up information from the library if you don't have an account. WebQuests WISE The Web-based Inquiry Science
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