Garden

Gardening in the New Millennium:: Planting, Weeding, and Harvesting the Internet

Annette Lamb
University of Southern Indiana

Who's a Gardener Flowers Vegetables Grass Weeds Internet Flowers Internet Weeds Lady Bird Johnson Wildflowers along our highways... Wildflowers on the information highway... Wildflowers http://www.wildflower.org We Want You! What can you plant on the information highway?

Globe Project

http://globe.fsl.noaa.gov/

Backyard Gardening Seeds + Soil + Water & Sun = Success

Internet Gardening Resources + Time + Effort = Learning

Consumer Use existing resources Kathy Schrock Blue Web 'N

Education World

http://www.education-world.com/

http://www.archive.vintageweb.net/american.htm

Study Web

http://www.studyweb.com/

Mining Co

http://home.miningco.com/

Collaborator Expand an existing area Join a club, an activity, a project

The Prince and I

http://www.nfb.ca/Kids

Living Things

http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/

Creator Start from scratch Create printed lists, activity sheets, bookmarks, single pages, a web site

Bat Thematic Site

http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/

Plan Ahead

Plan

Organize

Design

Lay it out

Internet for All!

Anyone can grow a carrot.

Be realistic.

Preschool sites

Arthur Site at PBS

http://pbs.org

Start Now! When's the best time to plant? Weather can be uncooperative.

Vietnam Site at PBS

http://www.pbs.org/pov/

Time It Tulip time only comes once a year. Students need to be prepared to use the Internet. Entry skills: experiences, vocabulary

Human Body

http://www.innerbody.com/indexbody.html

Don't Kid Yourself! You don't save time or money! You do excite students, enrich learning expand resources

Documenting the South

http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/

Plan Ahead It takes years to grow grapes. Year 1: participate Year 2: team Year 3: on your own

Shape Up

http://www.shapeup.org/sua/

Think Focus Plants (or kids) can't move in a pot. Downside: restrictions Upside: focus Single Site Focus

National Gallery of Art

http://www.nga.gov/collection/

Think Seasons! Fun holiday sites This day in history Special months

History and News

http://www.eduscapes.com/projects/truman.html

Pick Good Lessons What do you plant, when? Check grade level, activity type, interests, outcomes

Lesson Plans

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cla.html

KinderArt

http://www.bconnex.net/~jarea/lessons.htm

Plant the Right Seed

Choose what's best for you: seeds, bulbs, plants

Start Running It's faster to buy the plants. What's the goal? Locate information Use information Create information Formulate solutions

First Ladies

http://www.firstladies.org/

Get a Head Start Potatoes start with a chunk, not a seed Choose established projects Look for content Look for activities

Weather

http://weathereye.kgan.com/

Find Search Helpers It takes a zillion plants for one serving of lima beans. Is it really worth it? maybe not Let someone else do the searching for you!

Blue Web 'N

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn

Locate Activities Tomatoes love the heat. Find help for the things you don't like to do Searching, Lesson plans, Activities

Alphabet SuperHighway

http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/

Pick the Best Pick a sunny spot. Use the best as a model.

Ph Factor

http://www.miamisci.org/ph/

Choose Good Sites Choose a site with good soil, sun, and water! Look at reading level, interest level, ease of use, link to curriculum

Enchanted Learning: dictionary, whales

http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html

Watch for Weeds

Gardens need constant attention

Watch for weeds

Sex Is Everywhere! Roses have thorns. Some great sites link to questionable sites.

Pirates Project

http://magic.usi.edu/Summer98/educ569/s21/index.html

Pests Are a Problem Buy a pest-eating plant. Filtering Software "Safety Sites" Focused Activities

Weeding Pull the weeds before they become a problem Teach students evaluation skills

Evaluation

http://web.syr.edu/~maeltigi/Research/RIGHT.HTM

Avoid the Glitz! Beware of talking trees Shockwaves, Movies, MIDI files Forget the plugins Move on!

Tend Your Crops

Soil, Water, Sunlight

Feed Your Students Plants need soil, sun, and water. Not just information... Who, will do what? When? Why? With what Result?

Government Information Sharing Project

http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/index.html

Mix Facts w/ Fun Squirrels like strawberries. Draw them in with a diversion. Hide the real crop.

Food & Drug Administration

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids/

Make It Fun Rabbits like beets Place learning in a context Create a webquest!

EcoQuest: Desert

http://members.aol.com/QuestSite/1/

Get Outside Get some sun! Mix on and off computer activities. Share Lab experiments, Surveys, Photographs

Planet Earth

http://204.102.137.135/teaching_learning/mt&r/PlanetEarthMainPage.htm

Be Patient

Watched plants, don't grow

Be patient

The email will come!

Relax Gardening takes patience! Don't worry, Relax, Give it time Always have Plan B!

Whatzit Science Connections: Experts

http://www.omsi.edu/online/whatzit/

Harvest Your Crop

Pick tomatoes!

Dig up potatoes!

Gather grapes!

Use Communication Channels Some flowers have a great smell and taste. Audio Video Animation Graphics

Academy of American Poets

http://www.poets.org/

Use Tools Use the tools that others have invented. Puzzlemakers Calculators Conversion Tables

Puzzlemaker

http://www.puzzlemaker.com/

Coordinate Lab Use Lettuce is ready before everything else you need for a salad. You can never get the lab when you need it. Work together! OR Whack it. OR Print it. OR Copy & paste it.

Home Improvement

http://www.bhglive.com/homeimp/docs/index.htm

Triple-dip Sunflowers are pretty supply food just for fun! Build your own pages Use your own pages

Vocational Education

http://www.eduscapes.com/projects/vocteched.htm

Share with Others

Reach beyond your backyard

Photo from http://www.wildflower.org

Find Friends Everyone works together in a garden Locate a partner Plan a project Share your results

Epal Connections

http://www.epals.com/

Share the Best Pick your favorites and put them on display. Post your favorite lessons for others to enjoy!

Sea Shells Lesson Plan

http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/~codypren/Sea_shells.html

Share Ideas Share your tools with other gardeners Create lists of activity ideas, websites

Just Say No Lesson

http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~jobrown/justsayno.html

Share a Lesson Create your own garden Build your own page, lesson, unit, course

Caesar Lesson

http://www.bell.k12.ca.us/BellHS/Departments/English/SCORE/caesarwebguide.html

Water the World Well water is free, share it with your friends.

Encarta Lessons

http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/lessons/default.asp

Involve Students Get students involved in growing plants Writing Drawing Sharing

Hercules Student Project

http://www.westnet.com/~rickd/hercules/herculesb.html

Go Global Share your crop around the world! Create cyber classes syllabus links list links and activities info & projects webquests case studies

CyberSchool

http://www.cyber.crwash.k12.ia.us/compcomp

Gardening in the New Millennium Plan ahead Plant the right seed Watch for weeds Tend your crop Be patient Harvest your crop Share with others

Books by Annette Lamb

Cruisin' the Information Highway:

Internet in the K-12 Classroom (2nd Edition)

Annette Lamb & Larry Johnson

Get up to speed with basic technology, email, Web, Internet tools and resources, as well as, practical classroom activities and suggestions for leading the way onto the Info Highway.

ISBN 0-9641581-6-7 c1995, 1997 $23.95

Surfin' the Internet:

Practical Ideas from A to Z (2nd Edition)

Annette Lamb, Nancy Smith & Larry Johnson

A practical guide for integrating Internet technology into the classroom. Contains unit and lesson ideas, resource lists, and reproducible activity sheets for a wide range of K-12 Internet projects.

ISBN 0-9641581-9-5 c1996, 1997, 1998 $26.95

Spinnin' the Web:

Designing and Developing Web Projects

Annette Lamb

Explore and learn to create school sites, classroom pages, newspapers, projects, and individual pages. Design, development, implement, and evaluate web-based pages and projects.

ISBN 0-9641581-9-1 c1998 $26.95

Building Treehouses for Learning:

Technology in Today's Classrooms (2nd Edition)

Annette Lamb

Focuses on the integration of traditional and emerging technologies into today's classrooms including CD-ROM, laserdiscs, video, desktop publishing and presentations, Internet, and multimedia.

ISBN 1-891917-00-5 c1996, 1999 $34.95

The Magic Carpet Ride:

Integrating Technology into the K-12 Classroom (2nd Edition)

Annette Lamb

Focuses on integrating CD-ROM and student-produced multimedia technology into the classroom. Hands-on instructions for HyperStudio and digitizing images, video, and sounds.

ISBN 0-9641581-8-3 c1997, 1998 $23.95

Strap on Your Spurs:

Technology & Change Cowboy Style

Annette Lamb & Larry Johnson

Contains strategies for designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating technology programs in schools.

ISBN 0-9641581-0-8 c1994, 97 $23.95

Videos

CD-ROM: An Introduction - $59.95

Introduction to HyperStudio - $59.95

Introduction to HyperCard 2.2 - $59.95

3 Parts: Internet in the Classroom - $59.95 each

2 Parts: Internet Integration - $59.95 each

Part 1: Curriculum Connections

Part 2: Professional Tools

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Created September 30, 1998.