ICT Activity Models for the Classroom
Taken from Judi Harris's models and Laura Roerden's Web-Based Projects for your Classoom. Ordered from simplest to most sophisticated activity type

General ICT Integration sites...

Teaching Using the Internet

Profile yourself to see how well you would use technology for learning

The Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities. Check out the Project Overview for more information. New resources are added regularly

MindMapping software: Students use special software for generating their ideas on the computer

• Inspiration/Kidspiration software demo is available for a thirty day trial

Keypals/Email: All you need is a FirstClass account, or email account set up for you and your students, and a collaboration with another classroom in another school. Contact is between individual students. Students eventually learn how to apply skills of conference folders, mail lists, forwarding, replying, netiquette, attaching files, etc... The interaction is given a limited amount of time, and the student reports experience to the teacher. The information could serve as the basis for further work to be published on the web, but is not necessarily a web-based project

You can contact Malcolm Campbell to arrange for you and your students to have email accounts on a FirstClass Student Server. You will be given sub administator rights and will assume reponsibility for your educational use of the server

• Kids from Kanata
• E-Pals
• Ten nifty ways your teachers can use e-mail to extend kids' learning

WebQuests: A class is presented with a problem and clues to help solve it. Pick a topic from the curriculum and students develop their web search skills using directories, search engines, bookmarking, organizing bookmarks, hotlists, and website evaluation, eventually, advanced search techniques could be applied, and downloading files, including FTP

• Students can take some virtual field trips at Bigchalk
• CyberBee offers guides in integrating the Web into your lessons.
• PBS teacher Source has several web based lesson ideas for all subjects from beginner to advanced.

Electronic appearances: on line appearance of professional to answer student questions or participate in discussion relevant to their own professional lives, restricted to a brief time frame

The chat tools can be used on the FirstClass Student server.

Telementoring: same as above, but for longer, on-going time frame

Arctic Science Telementor Program

Q & A services (ask an expert): short-lived connunication where students ask an expert. Can be submitted to a web site of a particular discipline.

e.g. Quirks and Quarks, for a science question.

Global classrooms: interaction between groups, two or more classrooms, based on a topic covered in the curriculum.

• The Global SchoolHouse
• Harnessing the Web will take you to networked projects to get involved with

Information exchanges: groups of students share information about themselves, local weather, customs, recipes, etc...

• KidLink offers a framework for participating in networked projects aroung the world.
• YouthLinks

Parallel problem-solving: students in several locations are presented with a similar problem, which they solve separately and then together, electronically. Problem could either be math related, or deal with social action. Use a conference folder specific to project.

• NASA Quest
• iEARN is a non-profit that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.

Cooperative challenge: students meet virtually in a chat room , via email, messageboard, etc... to solve a problem and post their discussion on line (via web site, on-line publication...)

FirstClass Student Server

Web Publishing
The Nunavut GrassRoots Program gives funding for these projects.

Students build web sites consisting of text and graphics as method of presenting a classroom project.

Students build more complex web sites involving animated graphics.

CyberFair involves the collaboration of schools to build a website together

1. Web sites are built with animated graphics
   
2. Web sites are built with animated graphics and audio
   
3. Web sites are built with multimedia streaming audio and video
   
4. Web sites are built with interactive elements, such as discussion forums, forms to submit, polls to submit, counters, interactive graphics, such as:
   
   1. Web Survey: students create and post a survey publicly on a web site.
      
   2. Simulation: Students use their imagination to recreate an event or process; eg. design a virtual town or building, enact a town meeting on an issue

Website Building Tutorials
• West Loogootee Elementary School has excellent resources for designing school web pages. This is a great place to start for any first time web builder.
• Page Tutor a basic html course
• SchoolNet's Web Page Tutorial
• WebMonkey has loads of How To's for web page development
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing

gif tutorials

GLOBE offers hands on science programs that allow students to enter their data onto a global database.

Virtual Gatherings: Students from different geographical areas gather on-line via webstreaming or webcasting.