Participate Project

Find an existing Internet project and plan in detail how you will participate in that project. You can find Internet projects in a number of places. Here are few options:

Many project will give you ideas for how to incorporate the project into your curriculum, but you need to decide how each idea fits into what you want to do. In addition, you might think of additional ways to incorporate the project beyond what is suggested. You should:

describe your curriculum-related goals
detail the technical needs you will have
describe exactly what you and your students will do for the project
describe the offline activities that your students will do
discuss the difficulties you might encounter and how you will avoid them
discuss backup plans in case some of the difficulties are greater than anticipated
describe of your plans for closure of the project within your classroom
describe how you will evaluate the success or failure of the project

This plan should be detailed enough so that you will know exactly what you are doing if you choose to participate in this project. Note that this project should be of a significant nature, requiring several hours of classroom time. Alternatively, you could choose a series of simpler but related projects to plan. Examples of simple projects include data collection projects in which your students count the number of each color of of M&Ms and enter the data in a website and projects in which your students enter basic information about their pets on a website.

If you actually have your class participate in this project, include a plan written before actual participation and critique of how well the plan worked, including what you changed and what you would do differently next time.

Create this in the form of a web page.

Minimum Grading Criteria

Write a plan (including all the above points) to participate in a viable project that meets some curricular objectives in your class
Create this in the form of a web page that includes correct HTML tags (although it is not required that you use HTML to create the page)
All your work should be professionally presented, including correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

If the minimum grading criteria are met, you will receive a B for this assignment. The grade of A is reserved for outstanding work that goes beyond the minimum criteria. See the rubric for more detials about grading criteria.

What To Hand In

Copy of your plan/web page
(Optional) Paragraph describing how you have exceeded the minimum grading criteria.
Note that the best way to hand in work is by putting it on the Web and emailing the URL to the instructor. If it is not submitted that way, all work should be submitted electronically via the Blackboard Digital Dropbox; you should put ALL files that are part of the assignment in a single folder and compress it in Zip format to save the files as a single archive.

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This page was created by Dr. David M. Marcovitz.

Last Updated: September 12, 2008