Internet Education Index

• Good Calendar Links
• Teachers’ Resource Sites
• State and National Education Organizations
• Online Education Journals
• Cool Pages for Kids
• List of Pages with Education Links
• PBS TeacherSource—2,500+ lesson plans and activities

• KET Electronic Field Trips
• KET K-12 ITV Links

Good Calendar Links

• Learning Network from The New York Times features daily quotes, vocabulary words, and lesson plans.
• Conversation Starters is a daily news activity for parents and kids.
• Classroom Today from Classroom Connect provides links to weekly classroom-ready web activities.
• Education World has weekly classroom features.
• C-SPAN in the Classroom

Where To Find More

RESOURCES

• Kentucky Department of Education
• U.S. Department of Education and its National Center for Education Statistics
• A National Network of Regional Educational Labs takes you to all ten regional educational labs. Those especially interested in standards and benchmarks for all disciplines may want to go directly to the Mid-Continent Regional Lab.
• AskERIC provides Internet-based access to the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally funded clearinghouse for education-related issues at Syracuse University.

STATE AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Kentucky

• Kentucky Department of Education
• Kentucky Teacher is the department’s flagship publication for teachers.

National

• U.S. Department of Education
• USDOE E-Rate Information
• Education organizations from Yahoo!
• The National Education Association is a national organization of teachers and administrators. Its web site is a resource for all educators, featuring links to local and state affiliates, newsgroups, mailing lists, information on public policy issues, and much more.
• National PTA
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• National Council for the Social Studies
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
• The National Foundation for the Improvement of Education works to improve education in collaboration with teachers, researchers, school staff members, and students in public schools.
• Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)

EDUCATION JOURNALS

• Education Week
• Instructor magazine
• Journal of Technology Education
• Journal of Research on Technology in Education
• Technology & Learning Magazine Online
• T.H.E. (Technological Horizons in Education)
• Meridian: A Middle School Computer Technologies Journal seeks to “introduce educators to the reality and possibilities of applying the latest technology to teaching and learning in the middle school classroom.”
• MultiMedia Schools magazine
• From Now On—The Educational Technology Journal by Jamieson McKenzie
• The International Digital Electronic Access Library (IDEAL) includes the full text of all 175 Academic Press Journals and is available by license to college and university libraries worldwide. Even if your library doesn’t subscribe to IDEAL, you can still log on as a guest user and browse (by title or subject), search, view, and print tables of contents, abstracts, and some complete articles.