Types
of Online Projects
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1.
Collaboration
Multi age groups, classes, schools, countries work together on a common
project or goal and share the results of their project as they are working
on it either through email, online, etc. The project is interactive and
communicative. |
| Examples of
Collaboration |
| AT&T
Learning Network Projects List
This is a list of online projects with descriptions of each.
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- EduPlace Project Center
- The Project Center is a collection of online projects created by
teachers. This site also provides useful information to help teacher's
set up or design a collaborative project.
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School
World Internet Projects
Are you interested in starting an Internet Project with your students
but don’t know how to begin? There are many projects already designed
for specific subjects and grade levels. Log on to School World Internet
Projects for free curricular projects designed and produced for school
use. The site has excellent project descriptions, is organized according
to grade levels and curriculum and include links to the project’s web
page.
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Global
Schoolhouse
Created for busy teachers who are searching for online projects for
classroom integration, the Internet Projects Registry has become the
"Stop Looking!" resource. At this site, teachers can find links
to hundreds of projects from organizations such as NASA, I*EARN and the
Global SchoolNet Foundation, as well as countless outstanding projects
conducted by classroom teachers from all over the world. Teachers can also
add their own project to the Internet Projects Registry. |
2. Event
A onetime online event that is hosted by a reputable institution
and usually involves experts in a specific field. There is often a fee to
join for these projects. |
| NASA
Quest Calendar of Events |
Classroom Connect ..
The Quest Channel |
3.
Data Collection and Exchange
Classes or groups, collect specific data for a certain
period of time and share, exchange, and interpret the data online. These
are easy to join and good for a first time experience. There are many
simple projects that are easy to do and do not require a lot of time. |
CIESE
Collaborative Projects
This site offers fun, interesting
and easy to do projects. Check out the Science Collaborative Projects.
These involve activities as simple as measuring the amount of water that
you use daily to taking a class or school genetic survey for color
blindness. Then compare your individual results with those from schools
across the country and the world. The results are all posted on the web,
so even if you don’t participate in the project, you can still use the
web site information. In Spring 2001, there were 329 schools, in
15 countries participating in CIESE projects. That's more than
10,000 students worldwide. |
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4.
Mentoring
Ask an Expert |
5.
WebQuest
"A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented
activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from
the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using
information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the
levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early
1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March, and was
outlined then in Some Thoughts About WebQuests."
MCSD
WebQuest Page |
6.
Virtual Field Trip
Virtual field trips make impossible or difficult
locations easy to visit. |
Online
Expeditions
Thanks to the Web you can have incredible adventures in exotic locales
without spending a dime or leaving the room. Whether explorers travel the
Silk Road of China or climb Mt. Everest, learning becomes an unforgettable
adventure as students join real-time expeditions to remote and
fascinating locations. Observe daily progress and read field dispatches. Best of all, interact
with adventurers as they re-enact history—or
even make history
Field Trips Site
The Field
Trips Site has a range of field trips on nature topics: Rainforests,
Endangered Species, Salt Marshes, Volcanoes, and more! Perfect for
classroom use, there are teacher's objectives and resources for each
trip. |
Classroom
Connect's The Quest Channel
Join Quest Interactive Expeditions and travel with a
team of experts, adventurers and students to solve great mysteries around
the world
Field
Trips
Transform your next field trip into a dynamic,
collaborative learning experience with this easy-to-use interactive tool.
You can host a field trip, participate in an ongoing discussion
about another classroom's field trip online or check out a field trip in
progress. This tool encourages collaboration, stimulating dialogue,
story-telling skills, and the development of an online community via
cyber-journalism.
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| Bucket
Buddies
Participating classes will collect samples from ponds near their
schools and will use a variety of resources to identify the
macroinvertebrates (animals lacking a backbone and visible without the aid
of a microscope) in the samples. The students will share their
identifications with other project participants and they will use the
collected data to answer the central question: Did classrooms sampling
fresh water sources around the world find the same organisms? Finally, the
students will publish their conclusions in a report which will be posted
to the project Web site.
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The
Tooth Tally Project
The Tooth Tally Project returns for its fourth year! This project
provides an opportunity for first graders to communicate with other first
graders around the world by sharing information about something most of
them have in common: lost teeth! Teachers will collect data in their
classrooms about the number of teeth lost by their students during each
month of the project. They'll communicate this information to the other
first-grade classes in their project groups. Classes are encouraged to use
the exchanged data to practice graphing, solve math problems, and write
stories. Specific lesson suggestions are provided on the project Web site. |
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Monster Exchange
Students create a drawing of an original "monster," then
share their image with others using written description, only! The moment
of truth arrives...students compare the original image with the one drawn
by another student from their written description!
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Classroom
Pet Exchange
Classes exchange class pets (stuffed animals) and pet journals by snail
mail. They then and share the experience of their "visitor" via
e-mail, the web, and journaling.
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