EDIT 7500 @ UGA

This is outdated, but it is fairly similar to my own project, so I thought I would share. It is a webquest dealing with Fahrenheit 451 and propaganda.

In this short lecture, Bernie Dodge, creator of the WebQuest sites WebQuests and QuestGarden, talks about the way to view learning games with this equation: Power = Attention x Depth x Efficiency. It actually applies to other uses of technology, not just games

This webcast/podcast tackles the issue of technology offering convenience of information, but not actually offering wisdom in terms of processing information.

This is a good document for helping write a WebQuest even if it is a tad outdated.

This is a webquest for sixth grade language arts, and I'm bookmarking it because it's very similar to the format of the webquest I will be doing for Fahrenheit 451. It would be easy to follow this format and change the content as it suits you.

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, share and present 3D models. Whether you want to design a new deck for your house, build models for Google Earth, or teach geometry to your fifth-graders, you can use SketchUp to see your ideas in 3D. And when you're done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.

From the website: Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history. The broad subject matter of these photographs, shot by both amateurs and professionals, includes, but is not limited to, family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, important individuals and events in Georgia history, and landscapes. The wide variety of the collected visual images results from efforts by archivists from the Georgia Division of Archives and History who sought, between 1975 and 1996, to preserve Georgia's endangered historical photographs. Designed primarily for preservation, the project located, selected, and copied historically significant photographs held by individuals who wanted to share their pieces of the past with future generations.The Georgia Archives joins with the Digital Library of Georgia to present the Vanishing Georgia images as a digital resource. Support for the project is provided by a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered through Georgia HomePLACE.

This is really hard to describe, but with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, you can get workers (really bored workers?) from around the world to complete menial tasks for you, some of them research oriented, for very little money. It's pretty bizarre, but I've seen people do academic work on there.

With Google Sites you can create customized websites and secure wikis for free.

The American Memory project from the Library of Congress offers up a wealth of information on America in various media, particularly in discussing American History.

Though this is a pay site (it's not very much--$20/2 years), Questgarden allows the user to create WebQuests, including supporting documents like rubrics.

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: * monitoring a developing news story * keeping current on a competitor or industry * getting the latest on a celebrity or event * keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams

A lot of PBS' excellent Frontline programs are available for viewing via Quicktime or Windows Media here. These are some great documentaries that apply to a lot of the Social Sciences.

Knols are articles that try (at the very least) to be definitive articles on a particular subject, eschewing the wikipedia model of everybody chipping in. Instead, readers rate each knol, so the good ones rise to the top.

This is a WebQuest creator that doesn't require knowledge of HTML.

This webquest deals with the homeless issue in America: what its causes are, what services are available, and even includes a small service-learning component. It's a WebQuest that reaches outside of the classroom and the computer.

This economics lesson was developed by The Department of Treasury, Citigroup, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Here is one of the developers: Money Math: Lessons for Life teaches students responsible financial practices before they develop bad habits. For example, one path to accumulating wealth is to start saving at a young age and let compounding interest pay you for your effort. Another is to plan your budget realistically, by bringing your income and expenses into balance-minimizing spending so that you will have money to save. These two life lessons alone would reduce credit card debt, reduce financial pressures on families, and increase personal savings and wealth. It's a long, but thorough course.

Mymoney.gov is a joint project on financial literacy run by a number of branches of government, most notably the Federal Reserve. There are a lot of calculators available as help with investing and mortgages and stuff that would be appropriate for a high school economics class.

The Federal Reserve System maintains all sorts of educational tools, and this site is where they offer teachers and students lots of resources into understanding the Federal Reserve, which can often be tough for students to wrap their minds around, even though it's so important to the operation of the US economy.