presented by Kathy Schrock
(kathy@kathyschrock.net)

This page provides links to the sites, articles, information, and tools used for the workshop entitled "Planting the Seeds of Change".

This hands-on workshop provides guided practice in the use of educational subject directories, online tools for teaching and learning, effective search strategies, critical evaluation of Web pages, and creation of an online lesson and a classroom Web page to enhance home-school communication.

Critical Evaluation of Web Sites

• Teacher Evaluation of Web Sites
• The 5W's of Web Site Evaluation
• The Important Book Summarizer
• Sites to Review
  • Feline Reactions to Bearded Men (PDF)
  • Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide (PDF) (Article)
  • California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge (PDF)
• Experts Share Project
  • Group 1: But I found it on the Internet! (PDF)
  • Group 2: Fact or Folly: Authenticating Online Information (PDF)
  • Group 3: Why we need to evaluate what we find on the Internet (PDF)
  • Group 4: Yahooligans: Evaluating Web Sites for Teachers (PDF)
  • Group 5: Teaching Zack to Think (PDF)
  • Group 6: Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques (PDF)

Educational Subject Directories

• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• Education Index
• Teachers First: Content Matrix
• Michigan Electronic Library: Education
• Michigan Teacher Network: Index

Effective Search Strategies

• The Boolean Machine
• Extreme Searching

Online Tools for Teaching and Learning

• Trackstar
• Puzzlemaker
• BibBuilder
• 3-D Text Maker
• Online Tools for Teaching and Learning

Online Communication

• Motime.com
• Using Web Logs in Education
• Blogging for Beginners on Motime
• Richardson, Will. "Blogging and RSS." (Multimedia Schools, Jan/Feb 2004)

Online Lesson Creation

• McREL Compendium of Standards
• Assessment Strategies and Rubric Samples
• Rubistar and Rubric Builder
• Asssessment Strategies
• Creating Essential and Guiding Questions

Classroom Web Page

• Home Page Building Blocks
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Clipart Sites

Support Materials

• Spitzer, Eisenberg, and Lowe. Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age.2d ed. (2004)
• Information Literacy Research Overview from fno.org
• Permission to Use Student Work Form (Nauset Public Schools)
• Handout Packet in PDF format
• Slide Show in PDF format