Education has gone interactive. Global Schoolhouse's tutorial, entitled
Harnessing the Web, provides teachers with the tools they need to develop
interactive Web-based projects. It's also a great overview of project-based
learning in action.
Planning, designing and building a site can be a valuable learning tool
for students and teachers: students learn teamwork and cooperation, and teachers
gain technical skills.
Harnessing the Web
Internet:
http://www.gsn.org/web/index.html
There's a great Introduction to NetPBL: Collaborative Project-Based
Learning section that will take you back through the basics of this technique.
After all, project-based learning has been around a lot longer than the Internet.
The Building a Collaborative Web Project section takes you literally step
by step through developing a website with your class.
Technophobes need not fear -- every step in the process is explained thoroughly.
This section shows you how to use a traditional teaching method -- project-based
learning -- with a new technology.
Whether or not you tackle the Web-site building project, you're sure
to find the Introduction to Searching the Internet and Library of References,
Readings and Resources sections handy.
Harnessing the Power of the Web includes a wealth of information. In addition
to the step-by-step guidance through the project, this site provides valuable
information about obtaining parental permission for students publishing work
on the World Wide Web and links to HTML tutorials.
Harnessing the Power of the Web turns the Internet into a dynamic medium
that will allow students to fully participate as citizens of a worldwide community.
Teachers with imagination and vision can use the material presented in
Harnessing the Web to develop a multitude of interactive Web-based projects.
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