Ten Stages to Web Nirvana Adapted from material by Tom March

1 - Getting to Know the Web Visit a directory like Yahoo Visit a portal like the Mining Company Do random surfing

2 - Find Your Web The Web is the World Find your slice of the web Surf, Stumble, Search and Lurch html html

3 - Meeting your Neighbors Killer applications are programs that justify owning a computer Throughout the years there have been many killer apps (Visicalc, Word Perfect, etc.) People are the killer apps of the Internet

4 - Using the Web with Students Use it to support what you already do well Start with Kathy Schrock’s pages or Pac Bell’s Blue Web’N

5 - Designing Goal-based Web Activities Design with goals in mind Who knows the content or motivation your students need better than you? Working the Web for Education Filamentality

Selecting the Activity Helping students acquire knowledge or getting students to care more about the topic suggests Treasure/Knowledge Hunt t.html t.html If you want to add affective connections try a subject sampler mpler.html mpler.html

6 - Advanced Goal-based Design Information literacy is a critical issue on the web today. The “garbage” presents challenges and opportunities that didn’t exist before. WebQuests are the prototype for web based transformational curriculum tml tml

The Classic WebQuest The first WebQuest published to general use remains the standard. Searching for China by Tom March inaQuest.html inaQuest.html

Two New Concepts Found at Web-and-Flow Interactive 1- Concept Builder prompts learners to develop concepts about sophisticated ideas Example - No Near o' Eras activities in Eyes on Art

Two New Concepts An Insight Reflector example is the Why so Child-Friendly activity located at UNICEF's Teachers Talking about Learning Web site

7 - Pursuing Transformation It's not easy to prompt higher-order thinking Prompting transformative thinking seems an unnatural act it's part of a two stage process: first we help students develop expertise, then we foist them into a scenario that forces new use of that expertise One solution is to assign roles and a common essential question.

8 - Welcome to Your New Job Approach you jobs in a new, learning- centered way Four reasons why…

9 - Taking off the Training Wheels As you use things like WebQuests you develop your coaching skills You move from the sage on the stage to the guide on the side You have to adapt to the new era of disintermediation Emphasis on metacognition

10 - All that's left is Learning From the outside it looks the same Coming full circle puts you back at the beginning with new perspectives. Developing lifelong learning skills