Starting at the Top

Upon completing this workshop, you will be able to locate examples of full web courses, course materials, web activities, and key reference/resource web sites in your subject area. We will help you develop your own criteria for evaluating the sites you find and to brainstorm new ideas for how you can create rich activities. You will then help others in your teaching area by sharing your findings into a searchable web database.
"What a Site" is part of a workshop created for teachers, but anyone who finds their way here is welcome to follow along. We'll recommend that you go through it in order by using the "www x-ray glasses" links at the top of the page, but you can jump to any section quickly by using the menu above.
Here is a summary of what the workshop covers:

Introduction-- What is this all about?
Warm Up-- An activity that (hopefully) demonstrates why we developed this workshop.
Four Web Flavors--Four different ways you might use the web as a tool for learning.
Finding-- Our first activity helps you locate excellent sources for finding relevant web sites within each of the four flavors.
Evaluating-- How do you determine the value of a web site? We'll try to help you develop your own road map.
Integrating-- It's one thing to find a collection of web sites and prune the set down by evaluation, but what can you do with them that is of value? How do you build meaningful activities around web sites?
Sharing-- This is where you can enter information for sites that you evaluated and add it to a searchable database.
Taking them Home-- Once you've done some work here, here are the ways you can pack it up in your suitcase and take it home.
As a bonus, we've created a web discussion forum where you can post questions and read the words of other "What a Site" veterans.
And with that, we should be ready to proceed... Next stop, an Introduction to "What a Site"