©1996, L. Reid

Projects	RE 503 - Internet for Teachers

AMHS English Department Home Page

(Reid's Documentation)

Project: (AMHS English Department Home Page)


Subject(s):

English Department curriculum

Grade Level(s): 7 - 12


Number of participants: approximately 280 AMHS students & families


Summary:

to create an English Department Home Page so that the curriculum, activities, staff, and interconnected links can be accessed by the Arlington community

Goal(s):

to offer an alternative to the paper text Program of Studies with the dynamics of the Internet

Objectives:

to utilize the opportunities of RE 503 to create as dynamic a home page as possible with my independent student, Jessica Walsh

Rationale

The Internet offers a wider opportunity for communication which is the heart of an English class. Finding, connecting, and discussing English related issues with the Arlington community as well as the greater Web community, will keep the AMHS students and teachers open to new ideas for writing and discussion.

Procedure:

(1) Personnel: Linda Reid and Jessica Walsh; (2) Implementation time: February - May / one class meeting a day; (3) Activities: utilizing e-mail, listserv, Telnet, Gopher, FTP, and search engines (Infoseek, Yahoo); (4) Write a storyboard for home page and utilize Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to implement it; (5) Apply graphics to home page layout.

Assessment:

Observation and product: the actual home page document and the evaluation of the home page by students at AMHS; as well as a written evaluation of the learning process by Jessica Walsh