WebCam WebQuest

Tasks Teacher Edition

Public Webcams	Visiting Mentor	Absent Student	Classroom Partnership

In the full WebCam WebQuest, Student tasks are organized into 4 scenarios for classroom use of live video. These are the 4 scenarios that were discussed in the introduction. For the current webquest we will explore two of these live-video applications.

Public outdoor webcams

Let's take our students out of the classroom

a trip to New York City

Home

Task: Survey Commercial products

Task: Identify webcams in the following categories:

Municipal monitoring

Activity monitoring

Famous sites

personal video

Task: Identify 5 to 10 relevant public webcam sites for possible use and identify what subjects and grades you think they can be used in.

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Task: find 12 public webcams, security webcams, corporate webcams, museum webcams, public outdoor webcams, public indoor webcams

Task: add 12 webcam URL's to the Linked list that are relevant to your grade/subject

Task: create various WebCam projects (audio/video, 1-way, 2-way,) - JG/define specific objectives for each.

Task: for example biology and english,
visit a bio research laboratory with webcam (mentoring), create newsletter of the experience, - include research

Task: Design and budget and hardware configuration for video exchange project Costs:
Task Create WebQuests with WebCams and Video - in teacher subject area and in the scenarios below
Task Create a non-classroom webcam project (i.e. Monitoring Child-care center, senior residential facility, etc.)
Task Catagorize webcam sites as one of the following:

D) Practical Issues:
Task : Survey school rules from different schools - observe the range from liberal to tight (protection)

Task: given today's technology trends, describe a video/webcam class project in 5 years from now.

WebCam WebQuest development status as of Fri, May 7, 2004 8:32 PM

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