1. Quality K-16 Professional Development

2. Online and Onsite
Opportunities

3. Online NTEN Courses Jason Academy
University of Maryland College of Life Sciences

4. Onsite
Albertson’s Food Safety Science
Inquiry
Webwatchers

5. NSTA Program funded by the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation over the three years
NSTA Program funded by the
National Science Foundation

6. The Need Currently over 4 billion web pages on the net
Pages being added at rate of 7.3 million per day!
Sizing the Internet: Cyveillance white paper report,

7. “Have you tried searching under ‘fruitless’?”

8. The Need
“More than half of the nation’s school districts report that kids are the campus experts when it comes to school technology”
USA Today- June 5, 2002: At U.S Schools, Students are Technology Teachers- by Karen Thomas
Citing report: “Are We There Yet”-2nd major report from National School Boards Foundation

9. The Need
811 school districts surveyed, including 90 of largest 100 found:
Only 43% of new teachers are “average” in their ability to use the Internet for classroom instruction
Most Internet use is for research-based projects, with very little use of interactive learning and collaboration

10. The Need The UCLA Center for Communication
Policy just released study suggesting:
Schools should incorporate the NET into their instructional practices
Stressed importance of teaching students how to critically evaluate online information

11. The Solution-
A program to train teachers how to find, evaluate and assemble appropriate Internet education resources aligned to NSES

12. Web Guide Components

13. Web Guide Structure
Guides are for teachers and take drill down approach
Web Guide Topic Area
Several Themes for each web guide topic area
List of Keywords for each theme
Clicking Keyword provides list of URL Resources aligned to keyword

14. Web Guide Structure Each Keyword coded with six URLs:
2 Core Content URLs
2 Inquiry Activity URLs
2 Aligned- Assessments URLs
Cutting across all three areas pages may contain or address:
Misconceptions, Multimedia, Interactivity

15. Where are the Web guides ?

16. Webwatcher Training Programs
Six programs scheduled for spring 2003
Blends face-to-face and online training
Facilitated by experienced WebWatchers
Access to Web Guides developed by other teams in the field

17. What if?
You could not only access the existing web guides, but create you own based on topics of interest to your district or county?
No HTML programming needed!