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Curriculum Webs: A Practical Guide to Weaving the Web into Teaching and Learning
Craig A Cunningham
Marty Billingsley

ISBN-10: 0205336590
ISBN-13: 9780205336593

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 224 pp
Status: Out of Print

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Curriculum Webs helps in-service teachers, curriculum developers, and pre-service teachers use the World Wide Web as a central resource to facilitate learning.

A curriculum web is a Web page or pages designed to support a curriculum. This text describes the process of building curriculum webs from the early planning stages through design of the Web pages, using the finished product in classrooms, and teaching teachers with curriculum webs. Readers will see how successful Web-based curricula can be developed based on the stages of curriculum development and the needs of learners.

On the Companion Web site, (www.curriculumwebs.com,) Web examples and sample lesson plans will serve as an inspiration and guide as students work to create their own curriculum webs.

  • Numerous lesson plans provide step-by-step procedures for completing the tasks discussed in the text in four major software packages: Dreamweaver, GoLive, FrontPage, and Composer. These plans take the reader through the entire process of building a Web site to support teaching and learning.
  • Three fully developed curriculum Webs, referred to throughout the text, show how the pieces of a curriculum web fit together and explain different methods of building the curriculum plan and the web site to support it.
  • A Companion Web site provides up-to-date links and further information on all the topics in the text and is referenced throughout the text.
  • Throughout the text, example curriculum webs provide concrete examples that show the application of the principles and procedures discussed in the text.
  • Special features such as “Chapter Overviews,” “Your Next Step,” “For Further Learning,” and HTML references provide readers with additional resources for building and using webs.

Each chapter concludes with "Chapter Summary," "Your Next Step," and "For Further Learning."

Preface.

Short table of contents.

Long table of contents.

List of figures.



1. Planning curriculum for the Web.

What is a curriculum web?

Why build curriculum webs?

Some example curriculum webs.

Easing into building curriculum webs.

Overview of the process.

Cautions and limitations.



2. Identifying curriculum goals.

A process for identifying goals.

General educational goals.

Learner descriptions.

Subject matter descriptions.

Learning objectives.

Prerequisites.

Aims.

Rationales.



3. Choosing learning activities.

The complexity of learning.

Individualizing the curriculum.

Grouping learners.

Selecting learning activities.



4. Gathering Web-based resources.

Why use existing resources?

Bookmarks.

Searching.

Evaluating Web-based resources.

Copyright issues.



5. Designing effective Web sites.

The ten steps of Web site design.

Step 1: Planning for your audience.

Step 2: Gathering information and materials.

Step 3: Establishing a visual metaphor or theme.

Step 4: Planning site navigation.

Step 5: Chunking.

Step 6: Building site structure and navigation tools.



6. Laying out effective Web pages.

What is HTML?

Basic page design principles.

Use of white space on the page.

Using of color.

Styling text.

Moving around.

Frames versus tables.

Making accessible pages.



7. Using multimedia.

What is multimedia?

Graphics file formats.

Acquiring images.

Creating images.

Placing images.

Sidebar: Anti-aliasing.

Image maps.

Incorporating sound.

Incorporating video.

PDF files.



8. Constructing interactivity.

What is interactivity?

JavaScript.

Cookies.

Aids to navigation.

Forms.

Interactive animated graphics.

Alternate pages.



9. Organizing and assessing learning.

Planning instruction.

Embedding assessment.

Instructional plans.

Lists of materials and equipment.

Plans for assessment.



10. Evaluating and maintaining curriculum webs.

Evaluation.

Maintaining, revising, and updating.



11. Teaching with curriculum webs.

People.

Classrooms.

Connectivity.

Software Issues.



12. Teaching teachers with curriculum webs.

The importance of teacher training.

The Web's impact on teacher learning.

Time for teacher learning.

Standards for teaching with technology.

Some general considerations when teaching teachers.

The Web Institute for Teachers.



Appendix A: Technology.

Web servers, clients, and browsers.

Bandwidth.

Internet names and URLs.



Appendix B: HTML.

HTML document structure.

HTML syntax.

HTML quick reference chart.



Glossary.


Bibliography.


Index.

    Curriculum Webs helps in-service teachers, curriculum developers, and pre-service teachers build and use the World Wide Web as a central resource to facilitate learning.

    A Curriculum Web is a web page or web site designed to support a unit of curriculum. This text describes the process of building Curriculum Webs from the early planning stages through design of the web pages, using the finished product in classrooms, reflecting on the results, and revising for further use. Readers will see how successful web-based curricula can be developed based on the stages of curriculum development and the needs of learners.

    On the Companion Web site (curriculumwebs.com),Hands-On Lessons for various web editing software show specific procedures for implementing the ideas contained in the book. The Companion Web site also includes numerous links to resources and further examples.

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