Model

Uses

Sample

• Encyclopedia
• Dictionaries
• Thesaurus
• Maps
• Almanacs

www.city.net

• Newspapers
• Journals
• Magazines

www.washingtonpost.com

• Subject Matter Experts
• Electronic Texts of Public Domain Books
• Eyewitness Accounts
• Specialized Information

http://promo.net/pg/

• Government Data
• Special Interest Groups

www.acesag.auburn.edu/
department/nws/climate/
mslcli.html

• Graphics
• Sounds
• Video

www.audionet.com/
events/ra30

• Lesson Activities
• Games
• Software
• Tutorials
• Exercises

www.bham.wednet.edu/
www.htm

• Museums
• Experiments
• Events
• Expeditions

www.thinker.org/index.html

• Send email to subject area experts who have agreed beforehand to answer student questions.
• Can be used in all content areas.

www.tapr.org/emissary/

• Students collect data and exchange findings with other students in other locations.
• Each group analyzes information, draws conclusions, and reports findings.

http://www1.minn.net/
~schubert/weather.html

• Students in two separate classes form debate teams.
• Question is selected.
• Students choose a position, collect information, and debate electronically.

www.cs.rice.edu/~mborrow/
Lessons/nuclear_.html

• Preliminary to an inclass assignment
• Tasks are assigned to students and ideas for topics are brainstormed online.

• Students tutor other students in a subject area.
• Students may or may not be of the same age and/or ability level.

www.gsn.org/gsn/articles/
article.collaboration.html

• Students learn the parts of a short story.
• Once class begins the story and each additional class will add an element in order to complete the story.

www.mbnet.mb.ca/~dfalk/
story.html

• Similar to role playing except that student does not assume character role.
• More structure than role playing:  physical parameters of environment, rules that must be followed, feedback, etc.

www.simulations.com/#eun

• One class posts a story problem to another class to solve.  The second class solves first problem and creates their own.
• Students explain answers which help students understand the problem.

www.cs.rice.edu/~gcarney/
Lesson/trip.html

• Students engage in a role playing scenario, researching the period, creating a character, and interacting electronically with other students within the framework of the scenario.

www.interaus.net/old/march/
educat.html