Transcript Creating & Using A Website To Enhance Your Science 10 Teaching

Incorporating Teacher Web
Pages into Instruction and
Assessment
Why are we here?
• Examine the characteristics of a good
teaching website
• Discuss “fair use” and copyright issues
dealing with web sites
• Discuss reasons for using a website in
class
Why use a website in the
classroom?
• Convenient access to lecture notes &
activities by teacher and students
• Saves time for more instruction/demos
• Saves photocopying credits for teacher
Why use a website in the
classroom?
• Makes students responsible for
acquiring notes (i.e. lost notes, study
guide)
• Useful for Resource/IPP students
• Good communication for parents
• Can be linked to your school’s website
Characteristics of a Good
Teaching Website
• Overview of course
• Course outline and marking scheme
• Hyperlink to Dept. of Ed. Online
Curriculum documents
• Lecture Notes (on web pages & Word/PDF format)
• Assignments/Projects
Characteristics of a Good
Teaching Website
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Study questions
Practice tests
Instructor resume
Guest book
Date of latest site update
Email address
Links to other course-related websites
Tips for Designing a Good
Teaching Website
• Keep it simple & easy
• Make it fast
• Offer proper print documents for
notes/assignments
• Make navigation simple
• Use descriptive titles & links
Tips for Designing a Good
Teaching Website
• Limit use of unnecessary graphics
• Avoid wide widths on web pages
• Follow copyright & “fair use”
guidelines
Implementing The Website in Your Teaching
A few things you’ll need to consider when implement your
website:
Most students should have access to the Internet and a
printer (either at home or school).
You’ll will need to have good access to an LCD projector
and computer to go on-line with your site and display pages
Always have overhead transparencies of the notes and a
working projector just in case the “Internet is down” (a.k.a.
school server)
Implementing The Website in Your Teaching
A few things you’ll need to consider when implement your
website:
Have your school’s IT coordinator or webmaster add a
hyperlink from the school site to your site for greater
convenience
Be prepared to spend time on your website in its creation
and maintenance. Learn only what you have to learn and
use only what you have to use about web design software
(i.e. FrontPage). Make life easy!
Make parents aware of your site at parent-teacher
interviews and encourage them to visit it often (i.e. Post
important assignment submission and test dates)
“Fair Use” & Copyright Issues for Teaching
Websites
A few issues you must consider…
Is your site for education or some possible
commercial gain?
Give credit and citations where necessary. Are you
“cutting & pasting” directly from a site or is your work an
original composition?
If you use approx. 3% of another person’s material, it
can be considered “fair use”. If you use more than
10%, you are in a “gray” area.
Visit http://www.benedict.com/info/fairUse/fairUse.asp
for more in-depth details