Nortel's Bank of Lesson Plans

Many of you may already be familiar with Nortel's Learn IT, but if you're not, please do check out the website: http://nortellearnit.org/
The lessons are constructivist in nature and very current -- very few broken links. You can look up lessons by grade, subject, or technology, and there are quite a few online tutorials as well.

Eric Carle - 40th Anniversary of Caterpillar!

While I was looking around at webquests, I found a nice one related to Eric Carle, and found out that the 40th Anniversary of the Very Hungry Caterpillar will be on March 20th. Here is the webquest: http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/JulieRobertson/webquest/index.html
I think I'll use it (or parts of it, at least) when we get back after the break.

Best WebQuests . com

I just found a great page on Tom March's blog, listing the 194 Best WebQuests from 1181 altogether.



Best WebQuests . com

Miniature World

Webquest Web2.0

Here's a link to a really interesting article, by Thomas March, called "Revisiting Webquests in a Web 2 World."

www.ub.es/multimedia/iem

Really worth looking at. I especially liked the section about intrinsic motivation.