Dr. Michael J. Passow will provide a brief overview (PowerPoint and HTML) at some of the key questions to be considered in today's program. He will also lead participants through American Meteorological Society's teacher-training activities about this topic.

Air-Sea Interaction--Applications of Educational Technologies

We will try to provide time to work through some Internet- and CD-based learning opportunities pertaining to Air-Sea Interactions.

• "EXAMPLES of Air-Sea Questions "
• "Visit to an Ocean Planet" (view the PowerPoint presentation courtesy of JPL) (view the HTML version)

Dr. Martin Visbeck will present some of his research concerning Air-Sea Interactions centered in the North Atlantic.

• HTML presentation
• PowerPoint presentation

Building your own WebQuest

Today you will build your own WebQuest while you start practicing some desktop publishing skills. You don't have to get complicated to build a WebQuest. You can do it in Word (see sample below - third link), put it on the Web (there are several online tools that help you do this which we will see in future workshops), or even do it in PowerPoint! 

Today we will use Word to practice:

• How to copy, paste and activate a hyperlink in a local file (Word, PowerPoint, Inspiration, whatever...)
• How to toggle back and forth from the Web Browser window to the local document window.
• How to copy an image from the web to a local document.
• Saving the document as a template that all students can start the activity from and then save as their own.

Using the materials presented today, think of an activity related to the classroom curriculum you are teaching. Following the Format Sheet (first link below and handouts), you will quickly plan a WebQuest activity using the Air-Sea links provided in the resources section (you can use one, two, or all of them!). You then will start developing a document to present the WebQuest to your students. 

• What are Webquests?
• WebQuest Format Sheet (Word downloadable* and printable version)
• Sample WebQuest using Word (.doc)

Here are some examples of projects that use Real-time Data, developed by the Steven's Institute, that you could participate in or get ideas from:

• Gulf Stream Voyage
• The Stowaway Adventure

* To download any of our files, right-click on top of the link and choose Save Target As... This command will download the file to your computer, be it Word, PowerPoint, HTML, image, whatever.

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