Email Projects
| | · Collection of projects model |
| | IEarn Projects | | | A collection of projects to demonstrate that students can make a meaningful
contribution to the health and welfare of our planet and its peoples. Another example of a collection of projects under a theme. The teacher communities are well known to teachers and at the core of the project designs. | | | http://www.iearn.org.au |  | |
| | The Claypoles' Journey to Antarctica | | | Teacher Yvonne Claypole and her husband Jim are spending 1999 in complete isolation in Antarctica. Why not share their journey?
An example of multiple different activities under one project umbrella. | | | http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/claypoles/ | | |
| | Project Atmosphere Australia On-line | | | A project engaging students in a range of meterological projects. Specific episodes and a join-anytime smorgasbord are available.
Excellent example of a project which collects student and teacher work.
| | | http://www.schools.ash.org.au/paa/paa.htm | | |
| | · Exchanges through impersonations |
| | VECO Online Guests | | | An online guest program has operated on the voced-coord discussion list
since June 1997. The format is for the guest to post a series of items on issues or topics of current interest from their field of expertise. | | | http://www.veco.ash.org.au/guest/ | | |
| | BookRap | | | A Book Rap is a book discussion conducted via electronic mail. Individuals or groups of students from across the country or around the world can discuss the scheduled books.
An example of a project with multiple episodes where teachers take responsibility for managing each bookrap episode. | | | http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/projects/book-rap | | |
Synchronous Projects
| | Women of NASA - Female Frontiers | | | Webcast of guest speakers followed by real time chats. The website records background information, registration facilities and transcripts of chats. An email announcements list is used to notify of other scheduled events. | | | http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/frontiers | | |
| | · Guests in your classroom |
| | SAIL Students and Industry Links | | | Students conduct interviews and have online dialogue with an Industry mentor. Synchronous technologies plus web cam tools are used to provide students with as rich first hand account of their mentors life and work.
An example of a project where teachers do not have to collaborate with other teachers. | | | http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/projects/sail/index.html | | |
| | · learning technology skills in context |
Web - Information Retrieval Projects
| | QUESTS - Classroom Connect | | | Series of quests for students to join as they learn from web-based information. Well organised sites which tell the story of what teachers and students did. | | | http://quest.classroom.com/archive/archive.asp | | |
Web Publishing Projects
| | New Images Montage | | | Funded by the British Counciland built in collaboration with oz-TeacherNet, the New Images collection of projects have a variety of curriculum rationales. The Showcase is an interesting idea. | | | http://www.bc.org.au/montage/ | | |
| | · Variety of projects under one banner |
| | Global Classrooms collection of teacher-run projec | | | Building a collection of projects from teachers under a theme may be a useful model to consider. Although some teachers do fabulous things with these projects, you might see that they lack some of the qualities we might now be looking for. A useful collection of ideas, nevertheless, and a quality initiative of DSE Victoria. | | | http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/gc/index.htm | | |
| | ThinkQuest | | | An international web publishing competition that involves students, teachers and members of the school community. | | | http://www.ash.org.au/tq/ | | |
Web Searching Projects
| | Jewels of the Sea | | | There are two parts to the Jewels of the Sea. The first is ready made resources for students to use. The second is a web-publishing project for schools across the world to join. 1.The ABC is working with scientific and community groups to create web-based information about many sites of special interest. 2.Publish your own Jewel of the Sea site. | | | http://www.abc.net.au/oceans/jewel/default.htm | | |
| | Why WebQuests? | | | Education has changed a bit since the Three R's... WebQuests integrate important strategies through the power of the Web coupled
with sound learning theory & instructional design methods. For more on this, read Why WebQuests? | | | http://www.ozline.com/webquests/ | | |
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