Web Sites for Kentucky Educators
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KET Educational Resources
- Instructional TV Catalog—a searchable guide to the ITV offerings aired on KET ED, organized by curriculum area. You’ll find series and episode descriptions, broadcast schedules, links to teacher’s guides, downloadable MARC records, and connections to Kentucky Academic Expectations.
- KET ED Broadcast Schedule
- Instructional TV Web Sites—companion web sites for KET-produced instructional television programs
- Teacher’s Guides—downloadable guides for many of KET’s instructional television programs
- KET EncycloMedia—a comprehensive, Internet-based multimedia learning service offering video clips and a wealth of related standards-based resources for teaching across the curriculum
- Arts Toolkits—teacher-written lesson plans and a wealth of other resources for teaching and incorporating drama, music, the visual arts, and dance, all related to KET videos and aligned to Kentucky standards
- KET Distance Learning—supplemental high school classes in humanities, German, Latin, and physics, originated by certified teachers at KET and delivered via CD-ROM, DVD, and the Internet to schools in Kentucky and beyond.
- KET Professional Development—training and enrichment for educators developed in partnership with education organizations and advisers throughout Kentucky and the nation
- KET Classroom eNews—e-mail announcements from the KET Education Division on new programs, initiatives, and news of interest to Kentucky K-12 teachers, staff, and students
- KET Arts Pages—news about and links to many other KET arts resources, including broadcast schedules, KET arts productions, and related educational materials
- News Quiz—a weekly KET production for 4th through 8th graders featuring highlights from the past week’s top news stories and a multiple-choice quiz
- Video-Multimedia Resources—information on equipment and teaching methods, a discussion listserv, the Kentucky state contract for school televisions and displays, and other resources on video/multimedia production and media literacy instruction
Other Web Sites for Teachers
- Apple in Education—teaching resources and educational computing information
- Busy Teacher’s Website—an extensive and diverse list of subject areas such as archaeology, chemistry, ecology, and paleontology. The Recess section has games that can be played online during those dreaded rainy days.
- Education World—a comprehensive source for education links on the Internet. Search by keyword, use the topic list, or browse the awards section for extensive reviews of the hottest education sites.
- Kathy Schrock—a popular education consultant’s site of useful information
- Kentucky Virtual Library—online library reference and research information and resources for Kentucky school use
- Library and Media Technology Wiki by Melissa Gardner, University of Kentucky SLIS
- The MSN Lesson Collection—a growing archive of lesson plans and student activity sheets designed by teachers. U.S. teachers who submit their favorite original lesson plan are eligible to win a computer or other prizes.
- PBS Teachers
Education Organizations
Kentucky
- Kentucky Arts Council—includes a page on art in education
- Kentucky Association of Teachers of History—includes links to other Kentucky history sites
- Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Kentucky Department of Education
- Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources—includes information on the Salato Wildlife Education Center and KET’s Kentucky Afield series
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Kentucky General Assembly
- Kentucky Science Teachers Association
- Kentucky Society for Technology in Education
National
- Cyber School Bus—resources from the United Nations
- International Society for Technology in Education
- Library of Congress Learning Page—a collection of many teaching resources, including the American Memory collection of digitized images related to various periods of U.S. history
- National Council for the Social Studies
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- National Education Association—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.
- The NEA Foundation
- National Park Service—listings of all U.S. national parks, monuments, designated historic sites, and memorials by name, state, or region (via clickable maps)
- National PTA
- National Science Foundation—information about research opportunities in science, math, and engineering, with program deadlines and a grant proposal guide, along with research results from currently funded domestic and international projects.
- National Science Teachers Association
- U.S. Department of Education and its National Center for Education Statistics