Getting Started with Web-based Activities:
Culture Capsules and Quia Games/Quizzes

A Workshop Offered at De Anza College on May 18, 2001

Michael Krauss
(krauss@lclark.edu)

Institute for the Study of American Language and Culture, Lewis & Clark College

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Presentation Outline
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/deanza/deanza.html

• Click here to see a collection of Quia activities created by teachers using these workshop materials.
  

I. Introduction: exchange information; overview of workshop objectives (10 minutes)

II. Share information on ISALC curriculum and computer integration (10 minutes)

• Departmental Resources
  • ISALC home page - Program description
    
    
  • Web site collection and organizational system
    
    
• ISALC Classroom Teaching
  • Web pages to support instruction
    
    
  • Web resources to supplement in-class instruction (ESL Independent Study Lab)
    
    
• Student Projects
  
  

III. How to Create Web-based Culture Capsules (50 minute demonstration)

IV. Break Time (30 minutes)

V. Creating Games and Quizzes on the Internet with Quia (90 minute hands-on participation)

VI. Q & A (time is up to you)

VII. Possible Follow-up Sessions

• Creating Student PowerPoint Projects
• Building Web-based Activities: A Way and Ways
• Using M.S. Word Templates to Create Web-based Lessons
• Teaching the 4 Skill Areas with Web-based Resources
• Using a Web Editor to Develop Web Pages
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VIII. Additional Resources to Support Professional Development and Classroom Teaching

• Integrating the Internet into the Classroom: An Online Course
• Exploring and Exploiting the Internet: Concepts and Practices for Teaching ESOL
• Perspectives on CALL for Project-Based Learning
• Let's Create Web-based Learning Activities (ORTESOL 2000)
• Internet/Computer Writing Resources for a Content-Based Curriculum
• Michael Krauss Home Page.

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