Principals' Briefing
September 22, 1999
 
In Project Link teachers are introduced to unique and compelling aspects of the Internet.  They are provided with the appropriate skills to integrate these aspects into their curriculum and provide their students with exciting classroom activities.

These unique and compelling uses of the Internet include:

The Internet as a Communication device:
 

  • E Mail
  •  Ask an Expert
  • Collaborative Projects

    •     The Boiling Point Project

    The Internet as a source of Real Time Date and Information:
     

    Real-Time Weather Web Sites

    General Real Time Data Resources

    The Internet as a Unique Source of Information:

    Subject Guides to Educational Content

    Strategies for Searching the Web

    Unique Sources by Subject Area:
     

    The Internet for Publishing Student Work and Communicating with Parents:

    Publishing Student Work

    Communicating with Parents.

    Teachers are trained to build and post web sites.

    Each teacher has selected a collaborative or real time data project to use in their classroom this fall.

    Over the next several months your teachers will be developing their own curriculum projects.