Web Publishing and Education

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Web Publishing and Education

• Andrew Barr Bruce White
• 2003

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Assessment

• Assignment 1 (week 8, Sept. 19)
  Evaluate 5 educational websites
• Assignment 2 (week 14, Nov. 14)
  Create web site for teaching

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Module 1

• Study guide (online)
• Readings in Module 1 for few next weeks
• Log on to Web discussion forum for sharing
  comments.

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Evaluating web sites

• Use Teachers Cyber guide Exercise
  1 (download and print)
  www.cyberbee.com/guides.html
• Evaluate three education web sites
  http//dinosauricon.com
• http//www.memfox.net
• Http//www.csiro.au
• Email results to Andrew.barr_at_unisa.edu.au

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Building your own Web site

• School Intranet safer than Internet
• Students/Teachers can publish material
• New computer programs makes it easy
• Personalised schools statement to the community

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Criteria for your Web Site

• Audience--- School community
• Usability--- Novice to mature users
• Navigation--- Visual/ word clues
• Accessibility Does is work on a slow modem?
• Safe? Secure? Informative?

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Reading from the screen

• Style of the font for reading
• Navigation with buttons or Icons
• Viewers can click off your site
• Site design and page design important
• Hypertext links will allow people to browse
• Information can now be non-linear

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Educational web page design

• A web page can use Hypermedia
• Provides text and graphic links to other
  information sources
• Educators need to be concerned about
• Usability design
• Cognitive processing of Information
• Student learning styles

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Educational web page design

• Motivation of the users/students
• Exploratory learning according to age
• Research indicates that Constructivist approach
  to learning is beneficial

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Teachers use of the Web

• as a professional resource
• communicate and share ideas with other teachers
• as a source for in-class materials
• support and enrich lessons
• access to shareware or freeware software games
  eg. MVP Word
  Search puzzle

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Teachers use cont.

• In-class research and exploration
• construct knowledge
• experience electronic field trips
• as a communication and publishing medium
• publish your own teaching resources

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Publishing on the Web

• Teachers can share and exchange valuable
  resources
• Saves teachers hours of searching for relevant
  material
• thousands of lesson plans published
• provides international perspective in the lessons

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Advantages of teachers publishing

• Can provide relevance for students
• World-wide exchange of ideas
• Modeling for students

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Some useful sites for teachers

• http//www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.htm
• http//www.nexus.edu.au/TeachStud/teachstud.html
• http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
• http//www.unimelb.edu.au/tisp/wwebs/sites/index.h
  tml

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More interesting sites

• http//home.revealed.net/albee/pages/Curriculum.ht
  ml
• http//www.capecod.net/schrockguide/index.htm
• http//teachers.net/lessons/
• http//www.csun.edu/hcedu013/
• http//www.neat-schoolhouse.org/lesson.html
• http//scssi.scetv.org/mims/lessplns.htm

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Starting Andrew Barrs web site