CALL In-service Training Course for

Junior High School Teachers - Petach Tikva 2002-3

Instructors: Gail Shuster-Bouskila and Micki Zaritsky
Don't judge a site by it's cover!


Performance-based learning on the Internet requires intelligent use of information. Unless students are fully aware of the quality of information on a website, they cannot prepare acceptable material. This lesson will a bit of a review, but is essential to our work.  We will also work with our own forum.
   

First we will review making Chocolate chip cookies!

 LESSON 3
Israeli English Curriculum
Domains and    Benchmarks
TECHNOLOGY
TASKS FOR TEACHERS
TASKS FOR STUDENTS
Advanced website analysis

School sites comparison

Use of course forum
Access to Information-extract and integrate information from different sources for a specific purpose
 
Social Interaction - give and receive information in writing; engage in longer conversations

Presentation -
present information in depth, present information from different sources, synthesizing information from different sources

Internet- school sites and forum

Word

Look at the Petach Tikva website http://www.tikshuv.petach-tikva.k12.il/
and register for our forum, so you can participate in our discussions.

Introduction to school sites – critical look at Israeli and foreign educational sites created for use by students:
ETNI School Sites

ORT Junior High School site

Riverdeep

Create list of questions for evaluation and then apply to sites; see Tutorial

Helpful link to web evaluation:
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Website Evaluation  
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Look at sites for use by students and begin to create a checklist for evaluation in Word to send to pthscall@yahoo.com

Use a forum

Use a website evaluation form
 
 

Created November 24, 2002