Asia EdNet Tutorial - Module 3
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Studies of Asia curriculum
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Developing your own curriculum 
This section provides you with the opportunity to start to develop your own curriculum materials, based on what you have learned so far, which you could use in your classroom.
Note that the focus here is on creating Tracks and WebQuests. These are, of course, only two of the many possible approaches which could be taken to develop curriculum units and you should feel free to use any other methods that you know of.
For Tasks 5 and 6, you could use the collection of Internet sites you found in Task 9 of Module 1 or another set of websites on a topic of interest to you. Remember that your sequence need not use only Internet resources, but can also use print resources such as the Access Asia series (http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au).
Task 5 - Creating your own Track
Collect a range of web pages on a topic of interest to you. Spend some time developing some associated student activities for each of these web pages before you attempt to enter them on Trackstar.
You could use  this form to help you place your ideas within the wider curriculum context.
 Some suggestions
Use Trackstar to Make a Track (http://trackstar.hprtec.org/trackstar/trackstar_login.php3). You will need to login before you start.
It is important that you read all the instructions carefully.
Need some help?
(When your Track is completed, bookmark the front page of the Track so that you can go back and revise it as you collect more sites and/or develop further student activities. Remember, you need your password for this so write it down in a secure place!)
Task 6 - Developing a WebQuest
WebQuests require careful planning. Look at Tom March's step-by-step 'Web-and-Flow' approach to designing WebQuests (http://tommarch.com/writings/wq_design.php) for some ideas. A summary of his main points is also available.
Once you have decided on a topic and have prepared an outline of your WebQuest, locate all the required Internet, print, multimedia or other resources. You can use this form to help you with this.
You can then use Filamentality (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/) which, like Trackstar, guides you through the process of creating WebQuests online and automatically generates and stores your WebQuest without you having to know how to create web pages. It was developed by Linda Hyman, Tom March and Jodi Reed, the Application Design Team of the Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer.
You will notice that you can also use Filamentality to develop all the other types of Internet-based curriculum modelled in the Six paths to China site (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/). You can use the same collection of Internet sites to create any of these, including a WebQuest, so you may wish to start with a simple hotlist and build it up later on to one of the more complex forms.
Need some help?
(Remember, without your name and password you will not be able to go back in and edit your WebQuest so write it down in a secure place!
Although Filamentality is a free service, if you do not rebuild the WebQuest within 6 months, it will become inactive. (Don't worry, you will be automatically reminded of this by email.) Alternatively, you can save your WebQuest onto your hard disk and continue to update and amend it using an editing program.
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