EDST 667 (Summer, 1998):
Curriculum Project
You'll be completing this assignment as a series of Web pages and submitting your URL via Serf.
As classroom teachers, you are already curriculum experts. This project
is intended to help you focus on how the Internet can be used to enhance
or extend a particular curriculum objective.
This project is NOT about creating materials to teach students about
the Internet or the Web. However, you may want to include tasks that help
students reflect on how using the Internet is different or better or worse
than other ways they could have done the project.
This project is NOT about gathering a list of Internet resources
for students and pointing them at them without direction.
This project IS about attacking one or more curriculum objectives
and bringing Internet resources to bear on it. In fact, you may have curriculum
plans that you use already that could be adapted to make use of the Internet.
Requirements
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You can use any format that is clear and seems appropriate to you.
A number of models have been or will be reviewed in class.
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Your project must include the following:
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A statement of purpose clearly defining the target audience, subject
area, and specific curriculum objectives.
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An explanation of how network resources will be used by the students
and by a teacher who may want to use this.
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A management plan for carrying out the project including an explanation
of how your students will have access to the Internet. (This does not have
to be based on fact.)
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Your project should include at least one Web page specifically designed for students to get to the appropriate resources. Other parts of your project should be on separate web pages.
Scoring Rubric
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The objective of the project is tied to some important curriculum objective.
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Network resources or activities form a significant part of the student
experience.
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Internet resources are used in ways that are unique to the Internet,
not merely as substitutes for paper resources.
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The management plan addresses the changing nature of the Internet and
the possibility that connections may not be available at any given time.
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The management plan addresses the availability of Internet connections
to all students in the class.
This page is part of the course materials for EDST
667: Using the Internet for Curriculum Applications, taught June
22 to July 2, 1997 at the University of Delaware. Please send any comments
to Pat Sine (sine@udel.edu).