Web Weavers Kids as Web Developers   Annette Lamb alamb@eduscapes.com Larry Johnson ljohnson@mail.escapees.com Univ. of Southern Indiana

Web Weaving Business as usual for many of today's kids and teens! ...what about the students who don't have access at home?   http://www.humboldt1.com/~gralsto/einstein/einstein.html   Classroom Pages Class Assignments Instructional Content Project Sharing Links http://buckman.pps.k12.or.us/room100/room100.html http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us/john-marshall/overton/cwproj/main/civilframe.html   Who does what? Teacher make, student use Teacher make, student add Teacher starts, student finish Students make, they use Students make, others add Students make, others use http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/groveland/insect.proj/invite.html http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/KidDay/ http://www.oxnardsd.org/campus/frem/sci/scifi.html http://www.owt.com/phs/classrooms/peto/studentport/ramsey/kimberly.html http://advicom.net/~e-media/kv/poetry1.html http://ousd.k12.ca.us/melrose/melrose.html   Kids Helping Kids Tips for writers Ideas for web developers Ways to replicate a project Sharing requests Opportunities Friendship :-) http://www.countyconnections.org/projects/vistadlc/cruces/intro.html http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/Technology/School_WWW_Pages/Storytellers/HowWeDidIt.html   Communication Projects Email Sharing Surface Mail Sharing Collaborative Projects Peer Writing http://www.gsn.org/project/woodsy/index.html http://home.pacbell.net/theburns/ollie1.htm http://web.ccsd.k12.wy.us/sunflower/dmquilt.html http://www.greeceny.com/ls/grade4/   Publishing Projects Writings, Artwork, Music, and Multimedia Creations Information Resources Experiences Inquiry, Action, & Research Demonstrations/Experiments Virtual Field Trips http://members.aol.com/Apples2nd/index.html http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/hoffer/collage/collage.html http://web.ccsd.k12.wy.us/sunflower/Acuna/facts.html http://www.museum.state.il.us/mic_home/newton/project/ http://www.museum.state.il.us/mic_home/newton/project/museum_visit.html http://envirolink.org/EcoLink/chick.html http://pen1.pen.k12.va.us/Anthology/Div/Albemarle/Schools/Crozet/ClassPages/Woodward/weather/weatherhome.html http://www.miamisci.org/pigeons/ http://www.iu13.k12.pa.us/lampstras/hschool/physics/home.html http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/itcentre/hilton/birdtable/ http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/itcentre/hilton/marsden/   School Publications Projects Newspapers Magazines Guidelines Professional Look Logical Layout Publishing Guidelines Text Audience Download Options Update Content Student Involvement Topical Focus Columns Special Features Advertising http://www.nando.net/links/nandonext/next.html http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/jrseahaw.html http://www.pixi.com/~kailuah2/surfrider/masthead.html http://home.interlynx.net/~opark/ http://homer.louisville.edu:80/~mfpetr01/litmag/litmag.html http://www.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/K_12/   Project Topics A Photo Essay Interview with Witness Sketch timeline Movie Review Formal essay Trivia Game or Quiz On-line Newspaper Project Topics Poetry With illustrations Maps of Historical Events Letter to lawmaker Review of web links Biographical sketch Fictional short story On-line Debate http://www.fred.net/nhhs/project/civrts.htm   Project Design Development Tools Organization Multimedia Elements Beyond Information Evaluation Development Tools Word Processor Graphics Software HTML Code Book WYSIWYG Tool Claris Home Page Adobe Pagemill Microsoft Front Page Project Organization   Main Menu titles icons graphics tables maps http://www.greeceny.com/arm/welch/ http://www.peoples.net/~southbd/ http://cyberfair.gsn.org/dodson/japan97/japan97.htm http://gsh.org/jeffweb/97/index.html   Multimedia Elements Photographs Line Drawings Color Graphics Sounds Music & Speeches Movies Animation http://anfi.pacit.tas.gov.au/fahan/Compute/Flores/pgone.html http://home.revealed.net/mid/ourbutterflygarden.html http://www.marin.k12.ca.us/~ncsweb/lch/lch1.html http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/home/projects/first/cotton/cotton.html http://cyberfair.gsn.org/woodside/mystery.htm http://met.open.ac.uk/heronsgate/projects/hastings/hastings.html http://met.open.ac.uk/heronsgate/projects/buggy/buggy.html   Beyond Information Links Quizzes Calls for Action, Feedback, Involvement http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/months.htm http://www.burbank.k12.ca.us/~luther/aztecs/aztec.html http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html http://www.fred.net/nhhs/project/note.htm   Evaluation Outside Online Teacher Peer Self http://www.owt.com/phs/classrooms/peto/index97.html   Explore Projects Individual, Classroom, School One shot vs Ongoing Paper, email, or web Sharing, collaborate, evaluate Thematic, inquiry, problem Multimedia elements Interactivity: links, discussion http://www.gsn.org/ http://www.reedbooks.com.au/heinemann/global/project.html http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/ http://www.pitsco.com/p/collab.html http://www1.minn.net:80/~schubert/NickNacks.html http://www.eduplace.com/hmco/school/projects/online.html http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/projects/index.html   Student Web Roles Explorer Learner Teacher Publisher Contributor Collaborator Creator Web Weaver Tips Start small and build Collaborate globally Organize small groups Integrate links Ask for ideas Update Have fun!   Look for a new book by Annette Lamb coming Spring 1998 - Spinning the Web: Designing and Developing Web Pages with Kids     Return to Lamb's Presentation Page.