A. Resource-based Projects
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The teacher steps out of the traditional role of
being an content expert and information provider, and instead lets the students
find their own facts and information. Only when necessary for the active
learning process does the teacher step in to supply data or information.
The general flow of events are:
1. The teacher determines the topic for the
examination of the class
2.
The teacher presents the problem to the class.
3. The students find information on the
problem/questions.
4. Students organize their information in response
to the problem/questions.
B. Simple Creation
- Students
can also be assigned to create software materials to supplement the need for
relevant and effective materials. Creating is more consonant with planning,
making, assembling, designing, or building. Creativity is said to combine
three kinds of skills/abilities:
1. Analyzing- distinguishing similarities and
differences/ seeing the project as a problem to be solved.
2. Synthesizing – making spontaneous connections
among ideas, thus generating interesting or new ideas. 3. Promoting – selling of new ideas to allow the
public to test the ideas themselves.
C. Guided Hypermedia Projects
- - The production of self-made multimedia projects
can be approached in two different ways:
1. As an instructive tool, such as in the
production by students of a power-point presentation of a selected topic.
2. As a communication tool, such as when students
do a multimedia presentation (with text, graphs, photos, audio narration,
interviews, video clips, etc. to simulate a television news show.
D. Web-based Projects
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Students can be made to create and post webpages
on a given topic. But creating webpages, even single page webpages, may be too
sophisticated and time consuming for the average students.
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This creativity project may e to ambitious as a
tool in the teaching-learning process.
The Web-based School Projects Ring allows
teachers and students to use the Internet for
real life problem solving. For
example, Tom March and Dr. Bernie Dodge created the
awesome WebQuests activity
formats that allows teachers to involve PreK-Higher
Education students in
cooperative groups as they develop a solution that can take the
form of oral
presentations, web pages and multimedia presentations. The WebQuest and
other
Internet Projects in this Web Ring allows educators easy navigation to
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