RDG. 579 Technology in Reading and Language Arts Instruction
Spring Semester, 2006
RDG. 579 Technology in Reading and Language Arts Instruction
Spring Semester, 2006
Catherine Kurkjian, Ed.D.
Dept. of Reading and Language Arts
HOMEPAGE WEBQUEST
INTRODUCTION
Classroom Homepages
hold wonderful benefits for teachers, their students and
community. Leu & Leu (1997) describe these benefits/purposes
as a “4 For”:
1) Home pages benefit students by providing them with a place to
publish their work, as well as a place to access information
through links that are provided for them.
2) Home pages benefit students beyond an individual teachers'
classroom when learning resources are shared with a global
educational community.
3) Home pages assist teachers in communicating with families.
4) Home pages provide teachers with the opportunity to convey a
powerful professional image to the public.
You are about to embark on a Web Quest that will heighten your
awareness of the ways in which teachers use their Classroom
Homepages to benefit themselves, their students, and their
community.
THE
TASK
Your task is to review
a variety of websites. You will find two sites you consider to be
outstanding for meeting each of the “4 Fours” (8 sites
in all). You will compile your sites under each of the four
benefits/purposes and you will explain how each of your selected
sites accomplishes the benefits/purposes listed.
THE
PROCESS
1. Read Chapter 12 in the textbook.
2. Access central sites such as at myschoolonline,
suggested sites
listed in the text’s
weblinks at online site
and the Miss Rumphius
Award site.Use sites recommended on our texts companion site at
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/fourth.html
3. Find 2 exemplary sites for each of the 4 benefits/purposes.
4. Compile and Review them on Homepage Worksheet.
5. Imagine that you have your own classroom homepage. Decide on
which purposes are most relevant to your teaching situation and
write a reflection on how you might accomplish those purposes.
EVALUATION FOR
JOURNAL
| Evaluation | EXEMPLARY | ADEQUATE | UNSATISFACTORY |
| Completes all aspects of
the assignment _ |
Finds 2 examples for each of the 4 benefits listed (8 in all) Completes all information on worksheet. Completes self- reflection. |
Lists 2 sites for two of the 4 benefits and 2 sites for the other 2 benefits |
Lists less than 2 sites for each of the 4 benefits. |
| Providing complete information on sites listed |
Provides name, address and brief description for each of sites listed |
Provides name, address, and brief description for all but one of the listed sites. |
Provides name and address for all sites. More than three sites omit brief description. |
| Justifying why site is outstanding as it addresses particular benefits _ |
Provides a strong justification as to why all the selected sites are outstanding in the way they address benefits for which they have been selected. |
Provides a justification as to why the selected sites effectively address the benefits for which they been selected. |
Provides a sketchy sometimes unconvincing rationale for why selected sites address benefits for which they have been selected. |
| Self Assessing |
Reflection indicates which purposes are most relevant to teaching situation. |
Reflection indicates which purposes are most relevant to teaching situation. |
Reflection indicates unwillingness to consider a potential application of homepages relevant to teaching situation. |
| Envisioning |
Imaginatively addresses how these purposes might be addressed within the context of one’s own setting |
Effectively able to consider how these purposes might be addressed within the context of one’s own setting |
Unable to envision how to potentially address purposes in one’s setting. |
CONCLUSION
You should come away from this web quest with an idea of how
teachers effectively use Classroom Homepages to serve a variety
of purposes. You should also come away with some ideas of how
homepages might suit your purposes.
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