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GENERAL EDUCATION RESOURCE SITES

• The Great Online Research Challenge is a free, nationwide contest for high school juniors and seniors, giving them a chance to win $80,000 in prizes, including four-year scholarships to Florida State University. Registration for the GORC began January 1, 1998. All entries must be received by 11:59 PM EST on January 31, 1998.

• eBig is a free website in Technology and Learning from Britannica. It contains over 65,000 websites that have been reviewed by Britannica for validity and authenticity.

• PBS Teacher Connex offers information about programs from the PBS National Program Service schedule with extended videotaping rights for preK-12 educators in the United States. These programs have curriculum applications and are often used by teachers in the classroom. PBS Teacher Connex seeks to reach U.S. teachers with valuable program information, as well as cross-curricular applications, teacher resources, video offers and links to related resources on the Internet.

• Connections+ consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with the corresponding subject-area content standards. This is an excellent site for detailed lesson plans! The web sites and other resources chosen have been created, maintained, and/or recommended by educators.

• Ask An Expert lists resources you can use to integrate the Internet into your curriculum to enhance your lesson plans. A one stop resource to ask questions from experts around the world in subjects and professions from the Amish to zoology. Perfect for lesson plans, collaborative projects, and research.

• National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing provides access to educational research about productive assessment reform in American schools. This web site contains a wealth of assessment related information presented in a variety of formats (i.e. newsletters, technical reports, videos, CD-ROMs, general interest papers, and assessment resources) to accommodate the needs of many audiences.

• Teachers Helping Teachers wants to:

  provide basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers; ideas that can be immediately implemented into the classroom.

  provide new ideas in teaching methodologies for all teachers.

  provide a forum for experienced teachers to share their expertise and tips with colleagues around the world.

• What Your Child Should be Learning In School- Draft Standards From The State of California Academic Standards Commission.

• Horizon Home Page's mission is to inform educators about the challenges that they will face in a changing world and steps they can take to meet these challenges.

• Windows to the Future is a powerful integration of English, social science and vocational education which has universal applications. As a California Specialized Secondary School, this program is built on educational research and goals for the year 2010. Designed and implemented by teachers, Windows, merges vocational education with college preparatory education, collaborative teaching and learning. Unique features include intergenerational modeling of continuous learning, student empowerment, specialization, and technology to overcome rural isolation.

• From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal is an informative journal by author Jamie McKenzie, featuring articles on filtering the Web, protecting your child from the Net and futuristic libraries.

• Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles is a new educational e-zine of puzzles for K-12 students for educators to use with their lessons. Kid The magazine contains puzzles for grades K-12 on subjects in History, Science, English, Geography, Literature and Foreign Languages.

• What's Noteworthy on Learners, Learning & Schooling, contains articles that address the personal, technical, and organizational domains of educational reform.

• School Discipline includes several useful articles about classroom management.

• Blue Web'n Learning Applications Library is developed by Pacific Bell's Education First Applications Design Team. Intended for teachers, librarians, and parents, this searchable database of outstanding learning applications categorizes entries by content/subcontent area, audience/grade-level, and type of application (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). An easy-to-use clickable table quickly takes you to content-type pages. Each listing includes a linked title, URL, a rating, and brief description.

• Make It Happen! offers valuable information and useful resources to middle school teachers interested in: thematic instruction, interdisciplinary curriculum, inquiry-based learning, technology integration, inclusion of students with learning disabilities.
  Make It Happen! is an approach developed at Education Development Center, Inc. in Boston from a decade of federal funding. It guides interdisciplinary teams of teachers to design, implement, and reflect upon interdisciplinary I-Search Units. This web site provides detailed information about the Make It Happen! process as well as the inquiry process within an I-Search Unit.

• Teacher's Edition Online is a site which was created by teachers to help others in the same occupation. Its purpose is to improve classroom management and provide helpful tips and creative ideas for classes of all levels and abilities. Contains lesson plans and activities on all K-12 subject areas.

• The Internet University, provided by Cape Software, is an annotated listing of over 300 college and university distance learning courses available via the Internet. Course information is arranged by subject from Arts to Sociology.

• Teachers Helping Teachers is completely by and for teachers. Updated weekly, it offers something for everyone in the field. The home page links to the expected areas of interest; math, science, language arts, social studies where the user will find tips and lesson plans related to the topic and the site also offers a newsgroup style forum for sharing ideas and questions. The site includes a topic of the week, poem of the week and of course links to other educational resources on the web. Beginning teachers will find the classroom management material especially useful.

• The Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) has posted the final edition of the content standards database entitled Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education by John S. Kendall and Robert J. Marzano. The standards can be browsed and/or searched; a new feature consists of links from the standards to corresponding subject-area online educational resources.

• Building Web pages isn't hard. It's time-consuming, nit-picking work, but it's not brain surgery or advanced calculus. The coding you'll need to build your pages is called hyper-text markup language (html), and it's easy enough to learn. Unlike a more advanced computer language, html is just a set of tags that format the text and graphics on your pages.

  Learning those tags isn't hard and there are many online html tutorials to help you get started. One nice beginning tutorial is presented by Case Western Reserve University. You'll find another one done by a graduate student at Stanford University. Finally, Dave Kristula has developed a nice interactive html tutorial for beginners. Spend 20 minutes on any of those three sites and you'll be well on your way to posting your home page.

• CyberBee has been busy gathering cool sites to use in teacher workshops. Each subject area (social studies, language arts, and science) includes ten Web sites and an activity to complete at each one. These were developed as introductory pieces for summer workshops - Cyberspace Summer Camp for Teachers. The Big Six Skills are used and have participants actively engaged in creating projects. It's a lot of fun. Another activity titled Curriculum Integration Tresure Hunt is an introduction to plug-ins as well as links to other curricular sites.

• The WebQuest Page is a resource designed for those who are using WebQuests to teach with the web. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing. Includes excellent examples and materials developed to communicate the WebQuest idea.

• Integrating the Internet helps teachers who are looking for ways to integrate the internet into their curriculum. It also contains complete units of study and an especially interesting section where teachers share their Internet classroom experiences.

• The Internet Academy, provided by Los Angeles Times, helps you learn the ins and outs of e-mail addresses, how to use FTP and ways to improve your netiquette--that is, online behavior.

• CCCNet is a resource for lesson planning and talking to fellow teachers. There are both free and paid areas of the site, but joining is only $8 a month. CCCNet sponsors many online classroom projects.

• Well Connected Educator is a new site for K-12 educators, administrators, parents and others as a &QUOTpublishing center and forum&QUOT for &QUOTsuccess stories, models, strategies, and specific examples of how to use technology for teaching and learning,&QUOT as well as &QUOTperspectives on key issues in educational technology.&QUOT The site's contents (browsable and searchable) are divided into articles, columns, and special features. At present there are contributions on technology in the creative arts, email on the Internet, 6th graders using spreadsheets to learn probability, grant proposal help, and Internet resources in special education and African American studies, among others.

• Online Educator is a monthly curriculum guide/newsletter that identifies and reviews useful educational Web sites for teachers to integrate into their lesson plans. They have a weekly list of Super Sites that is searchable by subject, grade level and keywords.

• The Impact of Technology - One of the burning questions regarding the use of technology in education is "Does technology (computers, multimedia, the Internet, etc.) improve the education of K-12 students?" This page pulls together resources that will help educators answer this question.

• Info Zone - If you are going to do research, you might take a path that has these steps: wondering about something, seeking information, choosing information, connecting useful information you have found, producing information of your own in a new form and judging the entire process and your product. This site will help students get started with research through its well organized set of links on finding, using, and evaluating information, plus many more topic links.
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• In Tales From the Electronic Frontier ten teachers share "actual classroom experiences using the Internet in K-12 science and mathematics. " Each story is followed by questions and issues, making this an ideal resource for teacher preservice or inservice instruction on classroom use of technology.

• The Online Internet Institute (OII)
  provides educators with a learning environment to support integrating the Internet into their individual teaching styles. OII offers a combination of online and onsite collaborations in which participants develop projects to use in their classrooms.

• The National School Network Testbed is looking for other accounts of community and school partnerships driven by telecommunications technology. They're offering $500 prizes for the 15 best stories that describe such collaborations and can shared with a national audience:

• Cyberbee explores many topics helpful to teachers and others using the Internet. Topics include: tips for webmasters, use of electronic citations, copyright for educators in the information age, and Campaign '96 lesson links.

• The World Wide Web Workbook explores the basics of using the World Wide Web. For teachers or students learning the ins and outs of the WWW, this is a good tutorial from the Franklin Institute Science Museum.

• Busy Teachers Web Site reviews educational materials on the Web, lesson plans, and classroom projects.

• Classroom Connect provides information on Internet searching, educational conferences, school Web sties, and Web resources.

• Multiple Intelligences are links to examples of Web sites that might speak to people with the following strong intelligences: Linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Spatial, Musical, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal.

• The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning,a U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology site, hosts a series of white papers on various aspects of educational networking.

• On Line Agenda shows how to use the Internet in your classroom with a simple, interactive tutorial funded by the National Science Foundation .

• Presentation Handouts by Thornburg Center Associates - The Thornburg Center provides staff development in the field of education and educational technology (scenarios for the future, paradigm shifting, and ways a wide spectrum of technologies can be used by learners of all ages in many environments). This page provides an interesting set of articles and handouts for presentations.

• Heritage Online offers K-12 educators the opportunity to earn college credit while learning how to use the Internet to teach across all subject areas. Courses are offered via the Internet in teaching art, foreign language, math, science, social studies, writing & technology, and more.

• Menu of Education Group Mail Lists (Listservs) from the EdWeb site.

• Where F + U+ N = Learning - A resource for collaborative teaching AND learning on the Internet. NickNacks provides strategies for educators, including practical tips on exchanging files, leading or participating in a successful project, Internet tools and resources, and sample projects. Collaborative education on the Internet is fun...when you're prepared!

• The CEARCH Virtual Schoolhouse
  Global SchoolNet helps K-12 teachers and their students design collaborative projects that foster networking on the Internet. The site also features students' QuickTime(r) movies, contests, and a monthly calendar of projects sponsored by other online sites.

• THE 'LECTRIC LEARNING WEB
  NetTeach News
  These two web sites were created by Kathy Rutkowski, internationally known for her work with educators in creating global learning communities.

• Virtual Internet Guide offers Virtual Internet tours, tutorials and guides to acquaint surfers to all avenues on the Internet and World Wide Web. Additional sites are listed to help you enhance your Internet skills including help clinics, resource sites, Internet applications, subject lists, resource tools, HTML, home page creation, online TV, magazine and news sites.

• Citing electronic sources menu page includes links to APA and MLA.

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