About the Workshop for S.O.A.R.
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Web Workshop Ideas
This page was designed to meet the needs of a group of eight Middle School
teachers who would be using the World Wide Web for the first time with
students who would be present for a two-week orientation program.
As I selected links, I attempted to find sites that would provide
information in specific curricular areas. Links to sites written in Spanish
were included for use with our Spanish-speaking students. Rather than
linking to general sites, I tried to find a page within a general site that
had the actual information I wanted. I knew that both the students and
teachers would be new to the Web and I wanted to take them right to the
desired information.
Two days were used to train the teachers in the technology to be used during
S.O.A.R. The participants worked at computers in teams of two. They had
already been paired by subject to teach for S.O.A.R: there were two math
teachers, two language arts teachers, two science teachers and two
history/social science teachers.
I started by teaching them how to e-mail using Eudora. While they were
familiarizing themselves with Eudora, I sent them all a message that
included the URL for S.O.A.R. Then I walked around and showed each pair of
teachers how to open Netscape. I encouraged them to go back and forth
between Eudora and Netscape.
As I had hoped, as the teachers went to the various links to pages on the
Olympics they thought of them as having connections to their subjects. They shared
with each other and I provided technical assistance individually so that
they became comfortable using both Netscape and Eudora.
During the S.O.A.R. program one team of teachers displayed the Olympic
Reference Pages using a TV monitor. Another team set up a computer with
Internet capability as one of the activity stations. We set the home page to
the Olympic Reference Pages. The two other teams used the information on the
Olympics in their lessons.
The teachers came to appreciate the potential of the Web as a teaching tool,
which had been my goal.
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