Gathering Web-Based Resources Activity

Materials Needed:

• Gathering Resources Activity Worksheet

Using the Gathering Resources Activity Worksheet to guide your reading, visit the Curriculum Webs website for Chapter 7--Gathering Web-Based Resources. Once there, read to learn more about collecting resources. While you viewing that website, pay particular attention to the sections below listed below:

• Portals: This has links to various search engines and clearinghouses will be useful for finding resources for your curriculum web

• Existing Lesson Plans and Curriculum Webs (more resources you may tap)

• Data and Information

• Images for Building Web Sites (Be sure to save any graphics you wish to use in the images folder of your curriculum web before inserting them in your web.)

• Evaluation (There is a critique checklist available here that might be useful for helping you determine if you will use a particular site.)

• Copyright: This is extremely important. Read it carefully.

Complete the Gathering Resources Activity Worksheet and save your completed document as: Web-Based Resources. Then you are to upload it to the Blackboard Forum labeled Gathering Web-Based Resources.