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Stephanie
Turner
08
Project
Summary
Bath Central School
Historical topics with greatest depth of
expertise: The Great Depression, Progressive
Era, Colonial America
1. General Overview of the Proposed
Project:
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The project I would like to complete would
allow me to create an interactive website for my students.
Within this website I would like to include interesting
historical references, links to Regents review sites,
interactive review games, PowerPoints that review important
topics, blogs, etc.
2. Clear Purpose and Objective:
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I hope that by creating an interactive
website I can offer students opportunities to expand their
learning, relearn material/information that they did not
understand, communicate with class members, and become a highly
active participant in their own learning.
3. Stakeholders: grade level, who will
benefit, who will participate in this project.
4. U.S. History Content Area
5. Outline Describing Content
6. Software to be used, internet
materials, contacts, etc.
7. Level of Student Involvement
8. Evaluation process (include students
when possible)
9. Timeline: how you envision the
project being carried out between start up and conclusion
10. Comments or Questions:
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This is just a tentative plan and I am
open to suggestions—I hope that what I plan to do is not more
than I can accomplish in one year. The other concern I have
deals with copyright issues—I would like to include some video
and audio links to my page but I am not sure if I can because of
copyright laws, etc. So, if there is any help or information
that can be given in that area it would be greatly appreciated.
Stephanie Turner
Reflection
Bath CSD
11th grade United States History
Creating a web site has been a
goal of mine for some time and when the TAH program began it seemed
like the perfect opportunity. The first phase of the project was
simply learning how to create a web site. I was able to elicit the
help of our very knowledgeable tech department. With their
assistance and step by step guide I was able to create the basic
framework of the web site.
I did realize quite quickly that there were
endless possibilities for add-ons and links. I didn’t want the page
to become a hodgepodge of everything so I narrowed my focus down to
a few things. I was able to include links to review sites, specific
historical sites (one about the Civil War, Pearl Harbor, and the
Great Depression). I was also able to create a page that contained
my policy/procedure material, as well as the contract my students
sign at the beginning of the year.
I also enlisted the help of several students
who were currently taking a web page design class—they got to be the
teachers. They were willing to help me create my home page where I
was able to include some animated graphics. I believe that it was
beneficial to me and them as they were able to show me what they
were learning in another class. I even had one of the students
create a web site of Civil War generals as a project and I am hoping
that I can link it to a page called student projects.
As I was working on this project
it began to get lost in the shuffle of all the things that can bog a
teacher down. While the page itself is done in a basic format there
are several more things that I would like to add before making it
operational on the districts web site. As this page will be
representative of my classroom I want it to be polished and fine
tuned before presenting it to my students, their parents, and anyone
else that may peruse the districts web site. My plan is to work on
it over the summer and have it operational by the beginning of the
08-09 school year.
Stephanie Reflection 07 08 in Word
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