Backgrounders
Teaching with Technology: Online Teaching Strategies
Building Blocks of a WebQuest. San Diego State
University.
Main WebQuest page
Citizenship, Social Studies, and the Age of the Internet
by Mark A. McFarland.
Social Studies School Service.
Creating a virtual classroom by Mark Neal. Teaching History with Technology, Fall 2000.
Filamentality: A Fill-in-the-Blank Interactive Web Site that Guides You through Picking a Topic, Searching the Web, Gathering Good Internet Sites, and Turning Web Resources into Learning Activities. Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer.
Integrating
the Internet into the Curriculum: Using WebQuests in Your Classroom
Link to Learn Professional Development. Professional Development, A Link to
Learn Project. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
MarcoPolo Teachers Guide
(Helps teachers find and use exemplary Internet resources in the classroom; Includes
lesson-planning templates, help with plug-ins and other Internet tools, and many
suggestions for teachers to create their own disciplinary lessons.)
Planning a Virtual Field Trip by Michael Turturice. Teaching History with Technology, Fall 2000.
Student and Class Projects Using the Internet. Scholastic, Inc.
The Student WebQuest by Maureen Brown Yoder. Learning & Leading with Technology (A publication of The International Society for Technology in Education [ISTE]), Volume 26, Number 7 (April 1999).
Teach for Tomorrow
An interactive web-based course for teachers demonstrating the many innovative uses of the
Internet in the K-12 classroom. Teach for Tomorrow provides each teacher with an outline
portfolio for compiling information on Internet resources and notes on lesson planning.
Ten Ways to Take Charge of the Web by Julie M. Wood. Scholastic, Inc.
Up against Authentic History: Helping Teachers Make the Most of Primary Source Materials Online by Bill Tally. Scholastic, Inc.



