“Remote Sensing of Our Planet” with Christopher Small and “Shipboard Studies of Our Planet” with Gregory Mountain (Apr 2002)

“Remote Sensing of Our Planet” and
“Shipboard Studies of Our Planet”

with Christopher Small and Gregory Mountain

Originally presented 13 Apr 2002

Introduction to this Workshop

Exploring the Ocean Floors

An Introductory Presentation by Dr. Michael J. Passow

PowerPoint | HTML

You can find a list of all the resources cited in this PowerPoint in the Resources section of this workshop.

Integrating Educational Technologies

WebQuest as a Teaching Strategy

WebQuests are nothing more than a good lesson strategy that not only makes best use of what computer technology has to offer us, but also emphasizes cooperative learning and research skills. Look at this presentation, use the worksheets to practice making your own WebQuest. This activity is a guaranteed success with your students. It also is a great way of organizing and making best use of all the resources you learn about here in our program.

WebQuests Website

Readings and Training Materials About WebQuests

Examples of WebQuests

As you will notice, searching the web is one of the major tasks of putting together a WebQuest. If you don’t have good resources, the rest doesn’t work well. There are a couple of links that will show you how to focus your searches so you can find what you are looking for faster. This is a practical time saving exercise.

Their are several great tutorials you can take on line made just for teachers… see one of them:

http://www.webteacher.org/winexp/indextc.html

Tips on Searching

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/stepzero.html

About Search Engines

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/liberty/workshop/searching.html

And How To Cite What You Find:

http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm

Searching the Web Activity:

In order to build a lesson that uses well the resources of the web, and also save a lot of your planning time, there are some good search strategies you can use to give you better results. This will be immensely helpful in building the Resources section of your WebQuest as well.

These strategies will allow you to either narrow or broaden your search, depending on what you’re looking for.

To practice these, you will use Bernie Dodge’s Tips for Better Searching and compare what kinds of results you get using Altavista. You will have 20 minutes for this activity. After you’ve finished this online worksheet, try other search engines and compare their results.

You will work in 3 groups:

Yahoo Group

Ask Jeeves Group

Google Group

The challenge: find the best web-based investigations on Climate and Weather. You will have 20 minutes to do the search using your assigned engine. We will compare the results and discuss them at the end of the session! Good hunting!