1. Chapter 8 Selecting and Integrating World Wide Web Resources, Including Designing Online Instruction By: Jamie Bunting and Michelle O’Callaghan

2. Educational Website Review Guide The “Ten C’s” provide criteria to consider in evaluating Internet resources. - Content- Continuity - Credibility- Censorship - Critical Thinking- Connectivity - Copyright- Comparability - Citation- Context

3. Educational Website Review Guidelines Documentation and Credibility Content Audience Appeal and Suitability Ease of Use, Navigation, and Accessibility User Interface and Design

4. Harvesting Information Portal Sites Content Resources – Language Arts – Mathematics – Science – Social Studies – Arts Experience Simulations Research Tools

5. Portal Sites Provide links to a great variety of educational resources, from very general to topics specific Portal sites that contain teacher tools contain lesson plans, teacher discussion boards, and links to other support materials Examples:Discoveryschool.com http://school.discovery.com Education World www.education-world.com Edupuppy www.edupuppy.com

6. Content Resources Sites that provide some type of content information National organizations, research institutes, or even individual Internet users maintain these sites Can be used as a supplemental or enrichment resource or can supply the backbone of a series of lessons

7. Content Resources Language Arts ReadWriteThink www.readwritethink.org Inspirational Poetry Online: A Guide to Internet Resources www.poetry-portal.com Vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery http://www.vacabulary.com

8. Content Resources Mathematics Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org Cool Math www.coolmath.com CuriousMath.com www.curiousmath.com

9. Content Resources Science EarthSLOT www.earthslot.org Franklin Institute Online http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/welcome.html Volcanoworld http://volcano.und.nodak.edu

10. Content Resources Social Studies American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html Digital History www.digitalhistory.uh.edu Geography Zone http://www.geographyzone.com/new/index.php

11. Content Resources Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org Play Music www.playmusic.org

12. Experience Simulations Through online communication, students can experience what they cannot see in person Pictures and stories bring remote events and foreign parts of the world to vivid life through the computer screen Examples: Global Online Adventure Learning Site (Goals) www.goals.com The Jason Project www.jasonproject.org

13. Research Tools Answers www.answers.com Educator’s Reference Desk www.eduref.org Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com