After viewing the Research Process Calculator I got so excited I updated my web page with a link to the calculator and will show my students Monday where to find it and how to use it. I am also linking my web page here and hopefully my peers will view it and give me feedback and suggestions for improving it.
http://henry.mpls.k12.mn.us/Ms_Roth.html
The frustrating part about our web pages is that no one ever looks at them. Last year I had a survey asking viewers to let me know each time they visited and I got 5 responses, all first time users and they never came back.
Question: How do you get your students to use your web site? Why spend so much time on something that no one looks at?
Reading through Thing 5 has given me some ideas for promoting my web page, possibilities include putting assignments on the page rather than printing them and handing them out in class, including more resources and references materials guaged to excite and stimulate thinking, give extra credit points if they locate certain items and report a "key phrase" or something like that. Amazing the power of extra credit points!
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I am glad you commented on the web page. It was much like a conversation Jean and I were having earlier about the value. Yes, use it to hand out your course outline, assignments, place where you post student work and pictures. Have someone help you do a podcast of a piece the students are working on. Have the students come up with things they would use if they were there. Like links to sites you want them to use, blogs, etc.
I would like to know if some of your new things are working.
Diane
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