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This page has been created as a resource for a HyperStudio and WebQuest workshop held at Ricardo Richards Elementary School in Christianstead, USVI.
Here are a few resources for developing HyperStudio presentations and projects.
Digital Resources available for downloading
Remember, to download an image from the WWW, when using a Macintosh web browser, you need to do the following:
In Netscape....
- Place your cursor over the image you wish to copy.
- Click and hold until a contextual menu appears near your cursor.
- Choose "Save this Image as..." from the contextual menu.
- Save the image file to your desktop (or another place that you can find again!) using the name provided.
In Internet Explorer...
- Place your cursor over the image you wish to copy.
- Click and hold until a contextual menu appears near your cursor.
- Choose"Download Image to Disk" from the contextual menu.
- Save the image file to your desktop (or another place that you can find again!) using the name provided.
When using a PC (Windows), you get the contextual menu by clicking the RIGHT mouse button or holding down the CTRL key while clicking the left mouse button.
Finally, please remember that images on the WWW are generally copyrighted. The sites listed above have allowed you to download images for educational purposes if you credit their source. But, unless you know for sure that a site is free of copyright, you must assume that the images are copyrighted. You will need to check with the the website's authors before downloading/copying images. It is always a good idea to credit sources. Here are some sites which provide information about how to credit resources found on the Internet.
General Information on WebQuests
Finally, you could go straight to Bernie Dodge's student WebQuest template, but I think you would be better off by first reading some of the material on design and process found on the previous pages.
Search Tools and Subject Guides
When creating a WebQuest, it's important to have access to tools for finding the resources you want to link into your Quest. Here are some basic education (K-12) subject guides as well as some metasearch engines which should be useful.
Metasearch Engines
Metasearch engines are tools which allow you to access a number (usually a half-dozen or more) search engines at the same time. By using these tools, you can avoid having to enter the same search term into different engines manually. Also, some of these engines allow you to enter your search term in the form of a "real language" question.
Search Engines for Children
Sometimes you may want to know that the search engine will only come back with sites which are "approved" as being ok for children. The engines listed below will all filter out sites with "adult content" or sites that contain information irrelevant to children.
Educational Subject Guides
Subject guides are not technically search engines. Rather, they are collections of links to websites. These links are organized around categories and subjects defined by the author of the subject guide. Subject guides are naturally more focused than standard search engines or metasearch engines since the authors have already done some filtering for you. On the other hand, if you want to "search everywhere" for a particular topic...or on a topic not included in a subject guide...then you should use some type of search engine or metasearch engine.
- Yahoo (lots of categories for all sorts of subjects)
- Kathy Schrock's Guide to the Internet (a great source of K-12 related links)
- Blue Webbin' (links to Internet-based curriculum projects)
When students create electronic resources as the products of their work, teachers are faced with new issues related to assessment of that work. Not only are students assessed on content understanding and research skills, but there is also the need to actually assess their understanding of how the electronic media improves or augments their overall work. Teachers who fail to consider both content and process may find that their student work is more "sizzle" than "steak." In otherwords, a very sophisticated electronic presentation should miss the mark if there is no content behind the presentation. The following resources help teachers establish that mark.
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Last updated,May 26, 2000