Recording Your Ideas

WIT 2001	Managing the Use of the Internet in the Classroom
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Record your ideas for using the Internet to assist your teaching

(This page is suggested as a handout)

Use the following form to record your ideas for using the Internet to assist with your teaching. You may wish to brainstorm, share, and exchange ideas with one or more colleagues as you work. This form may be updated and revised at any time as your ideas take shape. When you have completed the form, print it out.

Your name:

Your email address:

Today's date:

Which subject areas do you teach that could be supported by the use of the Internet?

In this next section, you will brainstorm about possible ways you can use the Internet to help teach the above listed subjects.

• How can you use the Internet to increase collaboration between your students and others?
• How can you use the Internet to improve the interactions of students with each other?
• How can you use the Internet to develop critical thinking among your students?
• How can you use the Internet to increase the effectiveness of your teaching?

Your ideas here may change as your classroom Internet usage increases. Talk to your colleagues who have used the Internet to assist their instruction practices!

In this section, you will record the web addresses and brief descriptions of useful materials that you have found. As you gain proficiency with the Internet, you will come across a wealth of sites that may prove useful in your classroom. You will find that you will continually update and revise this list.

• What Internet-based primary source materials might be useful to your students?
• What virtual field trips might to useful to your students?

List useful resource sites - both for content and information exchange.

Web Institute for Teachers - http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/2001

Now, print this page to assist you in your discussion with your colleagues. You may also click the button below to email the form to yourself for future reference.

Remember to take some time and share your responses with one or more colleagues before proceeding to the next section.

Proceed to "What's your situation?"

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