LEVEL TWO: STUDENTS AS PRODUCERS;
TEACHERS AS FACILITATORS
CONTEXT: Never before in history have students be able to self-publish worldwide on equal par with the world's greatest governments, universities and corporations. The ease of authoring and the increasing variety of multimedia capabilities creates the opportunity for students of any age to make a worldwide impact through sharing their accumulated knowledge.
ACTIVITY: Explore the easiest self-authoring feature on the
web: animated musical greeting cards you can
send via email; http://www.bluemountain.comACTIVITY: Explore with your students the 900+ student-
created web sites created for the International
Thinkquest competition:
http://www.thinkquest.org/explore/
Request the free CDROM which includes tutorials
and software:
http://www.thinkquest.org/teach/tea-cdromfr.html
(It is fantastic and includes tutorials on project-based
learning, too!)ACTIVITY: Explore the electronic student portfolios and
student-created tutorials on how to create them at
the Mt. Edgecumbe School in Sitka, Alaska.
http://www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us
(Select Student Portfolios)ACTIVITY: Take the Geotour at http://www.geocities.com to
see how anyone can get a free web page created
and posted on the web in minutes!ACTIVITY: Use the following worksheets to create web pages
using both HTML and non-HTML methods.ACTIVITY: Explore the web development resources for both
beginning and advanced web authoring at
http://lone-eagles.com/webdev.htm.ACTIVITY: Explore tutorials for the eight levels of web
multimedia at http://lone-eagles.com/media.htm