Curated OER
Technology: Recipes Around the World
Students research international cuisine and create Web pages based on them. Once they have organized their findings, they demonstrate their research with a multimedia presentation. The project concludes with a party using food ...
Curated OER
World Wide Web
Students are able define or describe what the Internet is and how it developed. They are able to Describe an IP packet and what is meant by the phrase "packet switching network". Students are able to describe the World Wide Web. They are...
Curated OER
Lumping vs. Splitting
Students transform ordinary long-scrolling page into a logically connected web of information.
Curated OER
Production Time
Seventh graders identify terms related to computer-generated productions (e.g., desktop publishing, WYSIWYG, clip art, hypertext, multimedia, laserdisc, CD-ROM, VCR, scanners, camcorders).
Great Idea Finder
Great Idea Finder: Tim Berners Lee
Biographical information about Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW in 1991.
BBC
Bbc News: Technology: Fifteen Years of the Web
BBC News presents a timeline that shows the beginning of the World Wide Web introduced by Tim Berners-Lee in August 1991 as a tool for physicists through August 2006 when there are almost one hundred million websites online and it is a...
Other
W3 C: A Little History of the World Wide Web
This site has a timeline with information about the world wide web dating back to 1945. The timeline includes links to other information relating to the web.
Other
The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History
An article by Tim Berners-Lee that focuses on the history of the WWW from his point of view.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Study Webtext: "Bartleby the Scrivener"
Annotated version of the story offers notes and questions to facilitate active reading.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections
Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
This series of lessons involves student collaboration, writing and analytical skills, technology and imagination. While the lesson suggests use of FrontPage, it would also be possible to use a number of other authoring tools.
Other
Xml: Berners Lee and the Semantic Web Vision
Read an article by XML highlighting a presentation by World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee in which he describes his vision for the Semantic Web. Includes slides from Mr. Berners-Lee's talk.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: In the Mirror of Genre
A teacher's research project page that explores his students' journal responses to various literary works. Basic and limited entries.