• Crosspoint Anti Racism
  Crosspoint Anti RacismAn international, searchable collection of briefly annotated links covering such topics as anti-racism/anti-fascism, migrants, anti-Semitism/Shoah, migrants/diversity, indigenous people, Jewish resources/Shoah, human rights/refugees, disability resources, Roma/Sinti/Travellers, gays & lesbians, and women's rights. Can be browsed by country or by topic. The annotations are provided in English, Spanish, German, French, or other language depending upon the country of origin.http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/
• Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection
  Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection"A collection of Medieval clipart culled from various period sources, most notably woodcuts of the 15th & 16th centuries." Browsable by subject (animals and creatures, biblical scenes and figures, decorative borders and initials, human figures, and plants).
• Musee
  Free registration is required to access much of the site information and directory listings of 37,000 museums around the world including art, science, history, zoos, archaeology, aquariums, and more. The site features current exhibits, education, entertainment, archive reviews, and shopping links. There is an optional notification service available to contact subscribers when there are special exhibits at a favorite museum.
• NewsCenter: Up to the Minute News Resources
  Links for major wire services, one-stop shops, search for news, U.S. news, business news, international news, technology, entertainment, and more. Maintained by librarian Gary Price.
• The Artist's Toolkit: Visual elements and principles
  The Artist's Toolkit: Visual elements and principlesMinneapolis Institute of Arts & Walker Art CenterArtists use visual elements and principles like line, color and shape as tools to build works of art. Learn about these concepts with animated movies, create-a-composition activites, videos of professional artists in action, and an in-depth encyclopedia.
• A Guide To NASA Educational Programs
  Teacher/Faculty Preparation And Enhancement ProgramsoK-12oHigher EducationStudent Support ProgramsoK-12oHigher Education*Educational Technology Programs*Support of Systemic Improvement Program*Curriculum Support and Dissemination*Research and Developmenthttp://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/2000/nep/programs/index.html
• A Jazz Improvisation Primer
  A Jazz Improvisation Primer "Here you can find information on almost any topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group." Includes annotated bibliography and discography. Online version of text written by Marc Sabatella.
• A Lifetime of Color
  This is an extraordinary art education site that includes hands-on activities and techniques; galleries of student and professional work; information about art elements, principles, concepts, media, styles, and artists; an interactive art timeline and glossary; online games; teacher resources; and lesson plans for grades K-8.This is a good place to learn some basic techniques. Site is sponsored by Sanford, a manufacturer of art supplies.Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching, Lesson planning, Teaching Aids and devices.
• Activities for ESL Students
  Activities for ESL StudentsThere are over 1,000 activities on the a4esl.org website to help you study English as a Second Language.This project of The Internet TESL Journal has contributions by many teachers.http://a4esl.org/
• African Music and Dance Ensemble
  The Ensemble broadens access to knowledge about Africa's rich cultural heritage across the United States, Canada and Europe. The Ensemble has taught the skill, artistry and philosophy that inform the African music and dance traditions.
• Agayuliyararput: Our Way of Making Prayer
  This site provides a wealth of information on Native American Yup'ik and Inupiaq masks and culture.
• Amazing Picture Machine
  Search for pictures, maps, and other graphic resources on the Internet.Excellent collection and easily searchable, with an annotated list of good photograph and image sites and a list of the types of pictures in the database.Good for educational uses, from the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium.
• Amazing Space
  has an excellent series of inquiry-based activities on their web site entitled Amazing Space; http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/amazing-space.html
• American Folklife Center
  The American Folklife Center, which houses correspondence, artifacts, sound recordings, and photographs documenting folk arts, has showcased a number of its collections online.
• American Memory Project
  American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. From the U.S. Library of Congress. Access to over seven million images, texts and recordings documenting American history. Collections include African-American sheet music 1850-1920, architecture and engineering 1933 to the present, early silent films of New York City, and hundreds of others. American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Collection Finder Select collections to search
• Animated Gifs, Backgrounds, Graphics, Icons, Sounds, Movies
  Great collection backgrounds, animated GIFs, icons, and other small graphics for student Web page designers. Additionally there are more than 150 sound files in WAV and MIDI formats and a very few movies in QuickTime and AVI formats.
• Applying Big6 Skills, Information Literacy Standards and ISTE Nets to Internet Research
  Applying Big6 Skills, Information Literacy Standardsand ISTE NETS to Internet Research. Correlate Mike Eisenberg's and Bob Berkowitz' Big6 Skills with the national Information Literacy Standards developed by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and Association for Educational and Communications Technology (AECT) and the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS) to organize an introduction to research on the Internet.
• Artsedge
  ArtsEdge is an online resource center funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the United States Department of Education and administered by the Kennedy Center Education Department. Its mission is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject in the K-12 curriculum. The ArtsEdge website includes:arts education newsan annotated catalog of websitesK-12 curriculum materials, programs, and strategiesinteractive sections for students and the online communitya searchable and browseable database of arts education information directories and resources.
• Artslynx: International Arts Resources
  Artslynx: International Arts Resources. The amazingly wide scope of this comprehensive arts site includes links to information on organizations and collections; arts advocacy, education, funding, and administration; healing and disabilities; history; and more. Areas covered are visual arts, performing arts, and writing. This searchable site is useful for a range of users, from serious researchers to those looking for show tickets.
• Ask Dr. Math
  Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers. A searchable archive is available by level and topic, as well as summaries of Frequently Asked Questions (the Dr. Math FAQ).http://mathforum.org/dr.math/abt.drmath.html
• AskA+ Locator
  AskA+ LocatorThis directory of online question answering services (AskA) is "designed to link students, teachers, parents and other K-12 community members with experts on the Internet." Each service listing includes identification information (e.g., publisher, e-mail address, contact name, and links), scope, target audience, and a general description of the service. Searchable and browsable. From the Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) project sponsored by the National Library of Education and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology.
• AskERIC Lesson Plan Collection
  http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/The AskERIC Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 1100 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.
• AskERIC Visual Arts Lesson Plans
  The Educational Resources Information Center has a fully searchable database of visual arts content,
• Assessment Help for Teachers
  Teachers make judgments about students every day, based on such formal and informal appraisals of their work as classroom observation, homework assignments, and teacher-made quizzes. Soon, they'll have the first set o fprofessional standards to help guide them in making such decisions.The 220-page "Student Evaluation Standards" is on track to be approved this week by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, a nonprofit group whose members represent 18 national education organizations. The Joint Committee on Standards for Education Evaluation provides additional information on the proposed student evaluation standards, including an overview of how they were developed and a draft summary.
• Assessment Research by Roberta Furger
  Academic research points to the benefits -- and identifies ongoing challenges -- of implementing performance assessments in K-12 classrooms. Studies also identify the impact technology can have and is having on both classroom and large-scale assessments. Following are synopses of a sampling of studies on K-12 assessment.
• Assessments of Multimedia Technology in Education
  This is a Bibliography of a growing body of research devoted to assessing the effectiveness of multimedia in all levels of education, including corporate and military training.
• Bartelby.com
  Bartelby.com, which began as a research experiment in 1993 at Columbia University, has grown into a high-quality reference tool and an extensive repository of classic literature. It includes works by hundreds of authors: including over 10,000 poems and 86,000 quotations.
• Be a Geography Detective
  Be a Geography DetectiveOverview:At first glance, a landscape can be beautiful, boring, colorful, disturbing. Using the skills of a geography detective, however, students can learn more about the land and the relationships humans have with it. Students will apply the six "essential elements" of geography (location, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, and uses of geography) as they make in-depth observations and draw conclusions about historical landscapes. They will demonstrate understanding by writing journal entries, sketching landscapes, and making mental maps.Connections to the Curriculum:geography, language arts, science, history, art
• Blank & Outline Maps
  This collection includes printable outline maps of the world, continents, regions, countries, the states of the U.S., and the provinces of Canada. Maps are free "for educational or personal use at home or in the classroom." From About.com's geography page.
• Blue Web'n
  "Blue Web'n" combines "Blue-Ribbon" and "Web" (or you can think of it as "Blue-Ribbon" in duck talk). Blue Web'n is a searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references,&tools). Blue Web'n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites, but only the most useful sites -- especially online activities targeted at learners. Since there are a wealth of resources on the Web and few activities, they created Filamentality, a tool that turns existing Web resources into activities. Filamentality prompts teachers to "fill in the blanks" with links, instructions, and questions, and then builds a Web activity for students.
• Bridging the Home and School: A Case Study
  In today's society, there are many new technologies that educators have at their disposal to use both inside and outside of theclassroom. One such technology was the focus of the first stage of an on-going project on the "open school" model. This "open school" model isdesigned to provide access to information on a child's schooling to both students and parents outside of the traditional school day. This articleconsiders the use of one web-enabled technology called ThinkWave in twoone-term, elective courses.
• Bug Bytes
  A collection of more than forty insect sound files. Browse by species name or subject. Included are various larvae and adult insect feedings; movements of soil invertebrates; insects in plants; wing vibrations, and more. Additionally, there is a sample file to learn how to distinguish insects sounds from background noise. Length of each file is provided. From the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Building a Digital Workforce
  Taking action to close the IT skills gap in the current and future workforce is a critical challenge for business, labor, education, government, and the nonprofit sector that requires urgent attention by all stakeholders. This report sets out NPA's Digital Economic Opportunity Committee's recommendations for increasing the number of U.S. workers with IT skills. The report also includes examples of IT-related workforce development programs, many in a labor-management context, that illustrate how the recommendations can be implemented. These findings and recommendations resulted from a series of nine meetings and three conferences held by the DEOC over the life of the project.
• Castle Rock Pueblo:
  Castle Rock Pueblo: A Trip Through Time. A resource for teaching about southwestern archaeology and culture.http://www.crowcanyon.org/castlerockstudyEducational field trips allow readers to "visit" an ancient Pueblo Indian (Anasazi) village in southwestern Colorado during the 1200s?when people lived at Castle Rock Pueblo, the 1800s?when the site was discovered by explorers, and the 1990's when the site was excavated by Crow Canyon archaeologists and program participants.
• Children's Music Web
  Children's Music Web is an excellent site for parents, teachers, children, and professionals, promoting music for children with unbiased, free information. Focuses on music resources, not artists or companies. Partner sites link to more educational information, national and international radio programs and Webcasts, broadcasting resources, organizations, and music online.
• Chinatown Banquet
  Chinatown Banquet A community-based public art and education project based on the metaphor of a Chinese banquet raising awareness about the history, culture and conditions of Boston Chinatown, the city's most densely populated residential neighborhood.
• Choose the Best Search for your Information Need
  Choose the Best Engine for Your Purpose is a guide for choosing a search engine that will best fulfill your specific needs. Provides some great information for students on the different ways to use search engines.
• Choosing a Classroom Digital Camera
  Choosing a Classroom Digital Camera by Jeffrey BranzburgFor the new-to-technology educator, some considerations when buying a digital camera for school use.By Jeffrey BranzburgThis page is designed specifically with the new-to-technology educator in mind. Please feel free to reproduce it for use in your teacher training sessions or other staff development efforts.Digital photography can trace its roots back almost 40 years, when NASA needed a technology for spacecraft to send images back to Earth. Digital images are stored in computer memory and are able to be transmitted like any other computer file.When choosing a digital camera, we are presented with a wide (and sometimes confusing) selection of features to consider. Here is some information to help you make the best choice.
• Classroom Assessment
  Classroom AssessmentTeachers share their strategies for assessing their student's work and their teaching.Assessing Student Learning--and My Teaching--Through Student JournalsThis physics teacher finds the challenges of using student journals as an embedded assessment strategy are amply repaid by the benefits.Assessing Student Understanding with Interactive-Collaborative-Electronic Learning Logsby Paul HickmanA Massachusetts science teacher describes how technology enhances communication between student research groups and their teacher.Implementing Portfolios and Student-Led Conferencesby Jennifer WilliamsThis middle school teacher in Minnesota devised an assessment strategy that caught on with teachers of all subject areas.Using Self Evaluation with Fourth Gradersby Leah PoynterElementary school is not too early to help students learn to assess their own achievement. A veteran teacher tells how.
• Classroom Connect
  Classroom Connect is a provider of professional development and online curriculum resources that foster successful use of the Internet in education. They offer the K-12 education community a customized subscription service package that includes the professional learning programmes and standard-based classroom learning materials available, complete with face-to-face training and ongoing customer support. Through years of experience they found that this integrated approach helps educators effectively use the Internet as part of daily classroom instruction, which ultimately helps students develop key critical thinking skills while meeting core learning requirements in math, languages arts, science and social studies.
• Classroom Support
  Classroom SupportThese resources help education professionals assess skill levels for both teachers and students, and set grade-appropriate goals for students. This section also includes links to education information, provides teachers with ideas for technology-based lesson plans, and includes the tools necessary for creating appropriate use policies for these new technologies. Finally, explore resources that assist teachers in their professional development, including information about continuing education classes and online tutorials for software and hardware.
• Classroom Weather
  This site was designed to help teachers introduce atmospheric processes and the science of meteorology through experimentation and hands-on activities in the classroom.
• Climate Prediction Center
  Climate Prediction Center - The Climate Prediction Center serves the public by assessing and forecasting the impacts of short-term climate variability and emphasizing enhanced risks of weather-related extreme events. Educational materials include information on the ENSO cycle, and fact sheets and monographs.
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States
  These are geographic maps of the US.
• Communication as the Foundation of Distance Education
  Communication as the Foundation of Distance Education Robert F. BrooksFlorida State UniversityIntroduction Distance Learning Link Between Information and Communication Learning and Social Interaction Framework for Practical Application To Web-Based Distance Learning Conclusion and Recommendations BibliographyIntroduction Communication plays a vital role in learning, not only with respect to expository and discussion methods of instruction, but at a more consequential level in the development of higher mental processes through acquiring and learning to manipulate symbols. This has been so at least since the early days of Greek society where education of the citizen primarily was concerned with the ability to express oneself in a thoughtful manner in order to develop a better society. Isocrates, one of the first Western educators, stressed the relevance of speech in sharpening thought and judgment; his emphasis on the relationship between education and speaking well became the standard throughout the ancient Western world (Golden, Berquist,&Coleman, 1989).
• Computer Literacy Course Tutorial
  Computer Literacy Course TutorialHalifax Regional CAP Association 2001This is a course, on line, and also on a cd that takes teachers through the basics of the Internet.These materials have been developed by the Standardised Materials Training Team of the Halifax Regional CAP Association
• Connected Teacher
  Connected TeacherConnected Teacher is a free community resource for educators for sharing insights, finding new lesson plans, or visiting the links to educational materials for educators. As a member, you can get expert advice, meet teachers from your area, or report on what's going on in your classroom.
• Create a Graph
  "Create a Graph" helps students create their own graphs & charts. This online tool can be used to make 4 kinds of charts & graphs: bar graphs, line graphs, area graphs, & pie charts. (ED)
• Critical Issue: Providing Professional Development for Effective Technology Use
  Whether technology should be used in schools is no longer the issue in education. Instead, the current emphasis is ensuring that technology is used effectively to create new opportunities for learning and to promote student achievement. Educational technology is not, and never will be, transformative on its own, however. It requires the assistance of educators who integrate technology into the curriculum, align it with student learning goals, and use it for engaged learning projects. "Teacher quality is the factor that matters most for student learning," note Darling-Hammond and Berry (1998). Therefore, professional development for teachers becomes the key issue in using technology to improve the quality of learning in the classroom.
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
  The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection contains to date over 6,400 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection categories include old and antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children and manuscript maps. Genealogy and family history can be studied on the maps. The online collection is an expanding cross section of digital images designed to highlight the depth of the collection.The collection can be viewed in three ways:The Insight Browser is the easiest way to begin experiencing the David Rumsey Map Collection. It utilizes any typical web browser and requires no plug-ins or downloads. This browser is recommended for first time users.The Insight Java Client is a fully featured Java application that requires download. It provides rich features and advanced functionality over the Insight Browser. The Java Client is recommended for researchers and frequent visitors.Selected content from the collection is available using a special GIS Browser that allows detailed overlays of historical maps and current geospatial data.
• Demos with Positive Impact ( in Math)
  DEMOS with POSITIVE IMPACT is a project to connect mathematics professors with effective teaching tools. As instructors we use a variety of techniques to try to get important ideas across to students. This project focuses on demonstrations that use some form of instructional technology. For the purpose of this project, we use the following broad descriptions. Instructional technology: any tool used to facilitate a learning process; for example, physical equipment or examples, graphical displays, simulations, computations, interactive modules, calculators, computers and computer software, the web, etc. Demonstration: a description or explanation of an idea, concept, or process, illustrated with some form of instructional technology. What we have in mind is a vignette, incorporated within a lecture that engages the learner on a level in addition to the dialogue of the instructor. In contrast to student activities such as projects or lab activities, these vignettes are intended to be presented by the instructor. http://www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/lroberts/demos/demos_story.html
• Developing WWW Research Lessons
  This site helps teachers to develop and post a WWW integrated lesson, that creates opportunities for students to solve problems and create new answers, and gives teachers ways to use the WWW as a tool in their classrooms.
• Digital Divide Network (DDN)
  Digital Divide Network (DDN)The Digital Divide Network is a group of concerned people in education and the computer industry who are working to provide information, resources, and events on unequal access to information technology. Divided into sections, and with links to news stories and other online resources, this is a useful starting point for research on access to technology. Includes links to current research and a digital divide discussion list. Find free computer centers by entering a ZIP code.
• Digital Photos Online
  Digital Photos OnlineWesley FryerThere used to be a considerable delay between capturing an event on film and sharing the resulting photos with others and it was also very costly. Digital photography, based on bits rather than atoms, is dramatically changing this process. Today, teachers and students all over the world use these new technologies to capture events, to allow students to be creators, to share what is going on in the classroom
• Discovery School.com
  DiscoverySchool.com is part of the Discovery Communication, Inc. The website provides teaching materials for teachers, resources for students, and advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school. The site is constantly reviewed for educational relevance by practicing classroom teachers in elementary school, middle school, and high school. CONTENT_For teachers - this section includes lesson plans (original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers and sorted by subject and grade or both), teaching tools (tool that help teachers create their own teaching materials), custom classroom (teaching tools available online - plus the ability to save documents in their own personal account, create and save puzzles with Puzzlemaker, create, save and administer quizzes with Quiz Center, and create and save worksheets with, Worksheet Generator, teacher's store and conversation_For learners - provides tools to help learners study, games, and tons of great clip art to use and many learning adventures. _For parents - this section provides parents with comprehensive book reviews, the educational software, videos, games, and toys for kids; tools to help their children with homework and assignments; tips and advice on everything from surviving their your children's research report and watching TV programs with children. _Store - here users can find and order all the teaching tools and videos, CD ROMS, books, worksheets and learning plans.
• Distance Education Clearinghouse
  Distance Education ClearinghouseComprehensive, annotated, searchable, up-to-date directory of resources.http://www.uwex.edu/disted/Subject: Distance educationCategory: Directories
• Drought Science for Educators -
  One of NOAA's partners in dealing with the causes and the effects of drought is the National Drought Mitigation Center. This site helps teachers of grades 5-12 incorporate drought into their lectures.
• Education in Geography
  If you access the general web site there are many resources on line including the magazine, world, but also there is an educational portion that has many teaching resources. There are all kinds of resources, events, and lesson plans here.
• Education Week
  Education Week is a national print and online magazine that focuses on current educational issues.
• Educational Resources on Asia
  Educational Resources on AsiaThis site provides resources and links to educational material relating to Asia. These include reference works, online periodicals, educational films and suppliers, K-12 curriculum materials and vendors, full-text of significant historical documents (primarily constitutional), as well as demographic, economic, educational, and political statistics. Maintained by the UCLA Center for East Asian Studies.
• Educator's Reference Desk
  Educator's Reference Desk is a Internet-based service providing education information to teachers and others interested in education.
• EduHound.com
  Extensive collection of briefly annotated links for teachers, administrators, and parents, organized into categories, or browse an alphabetical subject/keyword list. Includes specific subjects (animals, science, etc.) as well as specialized educational resources (home schooling, standards&assessment, etc.). Of particular interest are EduHound Espol, with resources for Spanish speakers; EduHound Espol (English), resources for teaching students whose primary language is Spanish, including Bilingual Tutorials; and EduPuppy.com, resources for Preschool-Grade 2. From T.H.E. Institute.
• Encarta Schoolhouse
  Encarta SchoolhouseThis MSN Encarta site offers resources for teachers, including lesson plans, educational sites, and educational technologies.
• Enchanted Learning
  Enchanted Learning is targeted at K-3 learners and produces children's educational websites and games which are designed to capture thier imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. Their mission is to produce the best educational material, emphasizing creativity and the pure enjoyment of learning.
• ETB Thesaurus
  The European Treasury Browser (ETB) Project has recently released amultilingual thesaurus available in eight languages: Danish, English,French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. The thesaurus is"aimed at indexing educational resources" and building an "interoperableinfrastructure to exchange and network metadata on educational resources forschools in Europe." The project seeks to add value to national resourcecollections by allowing teachers and students to locate Europe resources.The thesaurus gives users access to all resources, regardless of theindexing method used. Users have a choice of downloading the thesaurusbetween three different displays -- alphabetical, rotated, or systematic.Potential users of the ETB thesaurus are indexers working in educationdocumentation services, publishers, libraries, teachers, students,administrators, scholars, and researchers. Interested users may finddownloading the thesaurus a bit difficult; the first download yields a URLfrom which users can download the actual file
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
  Time-tested, librarian-created guide to copyright, intellectual property, fair use, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, bias and resource evaluation. Excellent. From Johns Hopkins University librarian Elizabeth E. Kirk.
• Evaluating Web Resources
  This site, created by two librarians at the Wolfgram Memorial Library of Widener University, provides a set of checklists to help users analyze the quality of the information at various websites. Types of pages include advocacy, business/marketing, informational, news, and personal web pagesThis is an example of learning to evaluate the resources on the web.
• Exploratorium Web Science Workshop
  By clicking the links below, you will find a variety of on-line "Web Lessons.""Web Lessons" are activities intended to help science teachers integrate the Web into their science curriculum. Since a "Web Lessons" may use dynamic content or require communication via the Internet, "Web Lessons" are best done during an active Internet session.
• EXPLORES! Using Satellite Data
  Florida State University implements the NOAA Direct Readout Program from the polar orbiting satellites. To date the university has installed over 230 weather satellite ground stations designed to receive live imagery from NOAA 12, 14, and 15 satellites (as the constellation now stands), and also supports WEFAX in about 1/4 of these schools. This site includes postings of APT, WEFAX and GVAR imagery received at FSU, plus weather satellite interpretation messages.
• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
  The Michigan State University Library, in partnership with the MSU Museum,have created a fascinating look into American epicurean history with their online trove of influential 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks.
• Filters and Filtering
  The Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association has pulled together a lot of information on their site that deals with the filtering issue as well as providing links to more information, including a summary and the full text of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), information on the Neighborhood Children___s Internet Protection Act (NCIPA), news articles, and more. This is a site to guide the individual teacher.
• Finding Information on the Internet
  The best introduction to Internet searching on the Web.Be sure to check out the section on how to choose search tools - there is an excellent chart comparing the features of the major Web search engines and directories. From the UC Berkeley Teaching Library.
• Geography Network
  The Geography Network is an online resource to discover and access geographic content, including live maps and data, from many of the world's leading providers
• Getsmarter.org
  Getsmarter.org, an initiative of the Council on Competitiveness, gives students, parents and teachers a free and private way to compare science and math skills to students worldwide. It also provides warm-up practice quizzes in both math and science. Site visitors can instantly compare their performance with that of students around the world, based on the results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in 1995-99.
• Gina Amenta-Shin Ed. D.
  Gina is a member of ISTE's NETS for Teachers Writing Team and NSCD's Staff Development Standards for Online Learning Team . Through her past experiences as both a doctoral student and professor, Gina has developed multiple perspectives of distance learning - using interactive technology and virtual communities to facilitate online professional development. Her research interests include analyses of how learners construct their own understanding based on their prior experience. She believes it is important to build on the conceptual and cultural knowledge students bring to the classroom and to discover strategies for strengthening achievement for all students in a collaborative culture. The majority of Dr. Amenta-Shin's work with NICI introduces teachers to a process for rethinking classroom teaching and learning. Through an inquiry-based learning approach educators discuss, study, plan, apply, and reflect on integrating technology into a student-centered learning environment.
• Girl Power
  Girl Power! http://www.girlpower.gov/Supports the national public education campaign sponsored by the Department of the Health and Human Services "Girls at 8 or 9 typically have very strong attitudes about their health, so Girl Power! seeks to reinforce and sustain these positive values among girls ages 9-14 by targeting health messages to the unique needs, interests, and challenges of girls." Includes adult resource links and research and news about girls.
• Google Labs
  This experimental site from the Google search engine "showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time." Play with keyboard shortcuts, telephone searching, a glossary (thesaurus), and more.http://labs.google.com/
• GT World
  GT WorldThis is a site for those caring for talented and gifted children. It provides definitions of terms and emoticons to be encountered on site; information on testing; some articles; and recommended reading for children, teens, gifted adults, and parents. Members can participate in the MOO (a kind of chat room); the site also maintains several electronic mailing lists.
• Guggenheim.org
  This site introduces you to the five Guggeheim Museums. Venice, Italy; New York; Berlin, GR; Bilbao, Spain; Las Vegas, NV. Each museum is clickable to obtain the information about that museums programs. Each museum has an education center as well as many other offerings.
• Guide to African American Documentary Resources
  A highly selective collection of over 80 annotated links to sites "relating to African American history," including academic, government, and other sites, and digitization projects. Searchable and browsable. Includes a plain-text version for convenient download to PDAs.
• Handheld
  HandheldComputer ActivitySuggestionsOrganizing and PlanningReferenceInformationData GatheringData Manipulation and DisplayIndividual LearningCommunicating and Collaboration
• Handheld Education.com
  The purpose of this site is to help teachers and students improve teaching and learning through the use of handheld computers
• Handhelds Go to Class - New short film and story!
  In one of the largest school implementations to date, District 230 in the Chicago suburb of Orland Park equipped its three high schools with 2,200 handheld computers in the fall of 2000. Interested teachers were given classroom sets or students could buy or lease the handheld computers. According to English, biology, and social studies teachers in the district, use of the handhelds has increased student productivity and efficiency across all disciplines. In just one example, Laura Ritchey had her biology students use the handhelds to create an "ecological footprint," a measurement of the human impact on nature. Sidestepping the tradition of handing out paper assignments, Ritchey "beamed" the assignments to her students' handheld computers via an infrared ray. The students then used their handhelds to collect field data and instantly input the data into the school computer for further analysis. http://glef.org/orlandpk.html
• Harnessing the Power of the Web
  This guide will help you to understand collaborative, project-based learning on the Internet. We use the term NetPBL (Networked, Project-Based Learning) to describe this kind of learning.These resources will help you introduce your students to powerful educational experiences grounded in student-centered, project-based learning well-supported in the literature. Whether you're just starting out or ready for advanced levels, this guide will help you.
• How the Weather Service Gets the Word Out
  How the Weather Service Gets the Word Out - This document shows how the National Weather Service (NWS) strives to utilize the latest technologies available for the dissemination of climate, water, and weather data and information. Timely access to weather information is provided through NWS systems, including the - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio (NWR) - NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS) - Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) - Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN) Teachers will find information about resources from the American Meteorological Society and Project Atmosphere including the formation of the Atmospheric Education Resource Agent (AERA) network, DataStreme, AAAS, the American Geological Institute, and others, with information about audiovisual materials, computer software, and data sources.www.nssl.noaa.gov/resources
• HTML Goodies
  Have you ever seen colorful text or a pull down menu on a Web site and wondered how they were done? A visit to the HTML Goodies site should answer most of your questions. The HTML Primers section offers lessons for beginners and HTML Tutorials has 98 tutorials to take you to the next level. Java Goodies is the "Largest Java Script Repository on the World Wide Web." The tutorials are written in simple, friendly language and the site is easy on the eyes. Bookmark this site for reference.
• In Search of the Ways of Knowing Trail
  - Your jeep breaks down on your way to the remote village of Epulu in central Africa. You along with four youths from different local cultures are forced to walk through the Ituri Forest to get there. Together you'll have to navigate the forest by foot to arrive at Epulu. In the process you'll learn about plants, animals, and survival. You'll need the free Flash
• Isometric Drawing Tool
  Isometric Drawing ToolUse this interactive mathlet to make dynamic drawings on isometric dot paper. You can draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. You can shift, rotate, color, decompose, and view in 3D or 2D. Start by clicking on the cube to the left. Then place the cube on the grid where you would like it. Move the mouse slightly and another cube will be ready for placement.
• ISTE National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators
  Today's teacher preparation programs provide a variety of alternative paths to initial licensure. They address economic conditions, needs of prospective teachers, and the demands of employing school districts. Regardless of the configuration of the program, all teachers must have opportunities for experiences that prepare them to meet technology standards. The existence of many types of programs virtually ensures that there will be no one method for providing learning experiences to meet these standards.The Technology Performance Profiles for Teacher Preparation suggest ways programs can incrementally examine how well candidates meet the standards. The Profiles correspond to four phases in the typical preparation of a teacher. The Profiles are not meant to be prescriptive or lockstep; they are specifically designed to be fluid in providing guidelines for programs to create a set of benchmarks in planning and assessment that align with unique program design.ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION.Teachers apply technology to facilitate a variety of effective assessment and evaluation strategies. Teachers:A. apply technology in assessing student learning of subject matter using a variety of assessment techniques.B. use technology resources to collect and analyze data, interpret results, and communicate findings to improve instructional practice and maximize student learning.C. apply multiple methods of evaluation to determine students' appropriate use of technology resources for learning,communication,and productivity.
• JASON Project home page
  Grades: Kindergarten - 12 Synopsis: Don't worry, this is not another scary movie installment! This JASON is an educational program that lets students and teachers perform exciting scientific fieldwork from their classrooms, exploring regions from the polar ice caps to the steamy rain forests.
• Justice Learning
  CIVICS EDUCATION WEB SITE, NYTimes.com and NPR have launched (www.justicelearning.org), a free civics Web site designed for high school students and teachers. The Web site is organized around eight distinct civic issues that are updated twice yearly. It will use lessons and articles fromThe New York Times Learning Network and content from NPR's Justice Talking radio show. Current issues include gun control, juvenile justice and Webcensorship.
• K-12 GIS for Educators
  GIS software can help learners of all ages grasp the ways that geography affects their everyday lives and the world around them. GIS helps students and teachers engage in studies that require and promote critical thinking, integrated learning, and multiple intelligences--at any grade level.
• K12 Handhelds
  K12 HandheldsHandhelds is a company which focuses on handheld computing in education. It provides schools with integrated solutions for handheld use in education that include: planning, professional development, hardware, software and applications, educational bundles, implementation and support, and assessment.
• KITE - 1000 cases on how to integrate technology in K-12 classrooms
  KITE is a case-based reasoning system that is designed to help K-12 teachers to integrate technology in their classroom. The system has a 1000 cases (July 2003) and has multiple options to search to the context of the teacher.
• LD Online
  LD Online has a special section on how technology can diminish barriersfor children.
• Learning styles assessment
  Learning Styles AssessmentRead the word(s) in the left column and pick the description that best expresses how you usually handle each situation.This site contains a matrix to help the user to assess his or her learning styles.
• Learning to Adapt Lesson Plans to Different Teaching Styles and Computer Configurations
  How do you adapt a lesson to different teaching styles and classroom computer configurations. This is an important resource because many teachers can access the lesson plans, but need to learn to tailor them for their own uses.
• Learning with Laptop Tech Resources Page
  Technology Coordinator Resources Laurie and Fred Bartels run the laptop program at Rye Country Day School in New York. They put together this website with resources to help you both plan for and use laptops in schools.
• Lesson Plans Page.Com
  The Lesson Plans Page is a collection of over 1,000 lesson plans, primarily at the elementary level, that were developed by Kyle Yamnitz, students and faculty at The University of Missouri. More recent lesson plans were submitted by the users of this website. The Lesson Plans Page was developed to assist educators of all types. Elementary school teachers get lesson plans that are ready to use in their classrooms. College students get great example lesson plans or ideas to base their own lesson plans on. Distance education learners can get lesson plans to use at home and parents can get ideas for educational activities to use with their children.
• Library Spot
  Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, reference desks, and other student help sites.
• Lucas Videogallery in Edutopia
  The Video Gallery features nearly 50 documentaries and 70 interviews with experts on topics such as assessment, emotional intelligence, and project-based learning.Use the right-hand panel to browse documentaries and interviews according to topic. To browse documentaries, the "documentaries" tab must be red (click on it if it is white); to browse interviews, the "interviews" tab must be red. The default topic is assessment. Use the pulldown menu to select a different topic to browse.There are over 50 documentaries and 70 interviews with experts on topics such as assessment, emotional intelligence, and project-based learning.Use the right-hand panel to browse documentaries and interviews according to topic. To browse documentaries, the "documentaries" tab must be red (click on it if it is white); to browse interviews, the "interviews" tab must be red. The default topic is assessment. Use the pulldown menu to select a different topic to browse.Once you have selected a documentary or interview to watch, it will download and play in this (left-hand) panel. Below most video clips will be a link to an "accompanying article" for more details about the featured school/program.QuickTime 5.0.2 or higher is required.
• Magic Tales of Mexico: Folklore of the Texas-Mexican Border
  Gene Cowan maintains a web page of folktales collected by Gabriel Cordova. Magic Tales of Mexico: Folklore of the Texas-Mexican Border features both English and Mexican translations of several tales passed down orally by family storytellers
• Map Machine
  This is an online resource to show maps of many kinds from all over the world, and there are other resources on the site that are printable.
• MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom
  MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a consortium of premier national education organizations, state education agencies and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States. First launched in 1997 as a collection of standards-based, discipline-specific educational Web sites for K-12 teachers.
• Math-lets
  Math_lets are math applets you can use to explore math and create interactive lessons. See our i-Math Investigations for examples of lessons that use Math_lets. (You can find some college-level mathlets in the Mathematical Association of America's online journal, JOMA.)The Illuminations Math_lets are available for public use-provided that they are used only for educational, nonprofit purposes and that the NCTM Illuminations Project is appropriately credited. See Terms of Use.http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/index.html
• Mathematics Teacher Education Resource Place
  The Mathematics Teacher Education Resource Place is a website dedicated to supporting and improving the preparation of mathematics teachers (preK-16) by providing on-line resources, hot links, and a professional forum for those engaged in the teaching of mathematics content and methods courses, or in the field supervision of beginning teachers.
• Museum of the Rockies
  Museum of the RockiesPartnership between Montana State University Libraries and the National Leadership Grant for Libraries, created a database, which will make the Plains Indian cultures accessible via the Internet and World Wide Web. The database is titled Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains
• Museums Online
  Museums OnlineMuseumStuff.com is the one-stop shop for museum information, where Internetusers can discover and explore thousands of museums and related resourcesaround the country. This search engine, which features a "broad range ofmuseum 'stuff,'" offers links to various museums, virtual exhibitions,museum events, fun and game sites for secondary and post-secondary students,and educational links.The museum links are arranged in three separatecategories -- art, history, and science -- and can be accessed from the mainpage. The virtual exhibition section offers 55 topics ranging from AfricanAmerican, to ceramics, to evolution, to motorcycles, to religion, to zoos/animals. Viewers can search for museum events by organization name, month,and specific day, or perform an advanced search using a combination ofselections. On the whole, this gateway to museum stuff provides enoughresources to pique the interest of persons in many different areas.The National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities tracks key K-12 school facilities issues. Resource Lists are annotated bibliographies that include links to full text publications and related Web sites, descriptions of books, studies, reports and journal articles. A Mediation Model For Dynamic Literacy Instruction - Lisbeth Dixon-Krauss"Jerome Bruner remarked that Vygotsky's conception of development is at the same time a theory of education (Bruner, 1987). It is also a dynamic theory of learning and teaching; the learning evolves through the teaching, and at the same time the teaching evolves through the learning.This paper presents a mediation model for dynamic literacy instruction which applies this idea to classroom research and makes it accessible and functional for teachers."
• NASA K-12 Internet in the Classroom:
  Initiative to help K-12 schools use the Internet for Space Science education. Offers a variey of projects, some without charge, to schools across the United States. Internet initiative videos are available at the cost of distribution from NASA CORE . http://quest.arc.nasa.gov
• National Foundation for the Improvement of Education
  NFIE provides grants and technical assistance to teachers, education support personnel, and higher education faculty and staff to improve student learning in the nation's public schools. Find out about new grant opportunities.
• National Geographic Teacher Community
   
• National Severe Storm Laboratory's Weather Room
  This page provides general information for kids, parents, and teachers. Elementary school coloring books are available for printing and use for weather education. There is information about tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning and thunderstorm, with weather lessons on the basic introduction to map analysis and interpretation, and information about weather careers.
• Native American/American Indian/First Peoples
  features articles, educational resources, and bibliographies of contemporary and historical Native-themed books as well as bibliographies of books written and/or illustrated by tribal members. The site author is Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of JINGLE DANCER, a contemporary powwow picture book, and an enrolled member of Creek Nation. Books and resources are recommended from a Native perspective. Contact: c-smith@texas.net and/or visit:
• New State Fact Sheets on the Technology Gap
  New State Fact Sheets on the Technology Gap-Updated data available for all 50 states on how each state is fairing in addressing the Digital Divide.
• No Child Left Behind
  Signed into law on January 8, 2002, the No Child Left Behind Bill will significantly impact the terms and conditions of primary and secondary education in America, especially where it comes to how federal monies earmarked for education are allocated.
• NOAA - Especially for Teachers
  WeatherYou can find information about tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, tsunamis and all kinds of hazardous weather.Climate Change and Our PlanetYou can find information about climate change, earth science and sciences as it relates to our planet.Oceans and CoastsThis category includes information about fish, marine mammals, our coasts, navigation and the many facets of the waters that surround our nation.Satellites and SpaceThis category includes information about satellites and space.Training, Other Opportunities&External LinksThis category includes information about Operation Pathfinder, the GLOBE Program, NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program, as well as external links to other websites.
• NOAA Education Resources
  A page with many links, including experiments and science fair projects.www.nws.noaa.gov/er/box/education.html
• North Carolina State University: Introduction to Videoconferencing
  North Carolina State University: Introduction to Videoconferencing An introduction to videoconferencing. This site includes information about creating and implementing classroom projects using videoconferencing.
• Ology
  A cleaver, animated site with activities related to "ology", the study of something. Website includes activities about genetics, paleontology,astronomy and biodiversity.
• On the Ice
  On the IceThe San Jose Sharks, a National Hockey League franchise, has developed several math lessons in English and Spanish, from "Presenting the Great Zamboni" to "How Much Dirt Does a Dump Truck Dump?"
• Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Americans
  TCP___s groundbreaking briefing examines and makes recommendations about Internet content for underserved Americans (e.g., low-income, limited-literacy, non-English-speaking).
• PBS Kids Cyberchase
  PBS Kids CyberchaseA fun math related game is available every day at Cyberchase. Use the show to reinforce a concept taught in class. Pump up the math skills andhave a little fun at the same time. Take the poll (and have studentsapply their knowledge of graphs) or have a peek at the next day's show.Grade Level: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle SchoolContent Area: Mathematics (General) [Dewey #510], Technology (General)Application Type: Activity, Resource
• Portfolios
  special focus area - portfolios and many websites for examination of the use of portfolios.Article: Student Portfolioshttp://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ae/al_stufolio.htmlor(PDF 24 KB / 6 pgs)To read and print PDF files, get the Acrobat Reader.Portfolios for Assessment and Instruction, article by Judith Arter et. al.http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed388890.htmlScoring rubrics for portfolioshttp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/libst/Portfolio/Scoring.htmlElectronic portfolios: Webfolioshttp://www.cgc.maricopa.edu/williams/block/assignments/portfolio.htmlSample use of portfolios for specific skills/disciplineshttp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/libst/Portfolio/Dividers/Math.htmlhttp://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/libst/Portfolio/Dividers/Science.htmlUse of portfolio for assessment of student outcomeshttp://k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us/~assess/s04-02.htmSample use of portfolio for certificationhttp://www.snc.edu/educ/edpages/portfolio.htmlhttp://members.tripod.com/lepine/P-Assesm.htmlPortfolio assessment project at SIU at Edwardsvillehttp://www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/portwing.htmlA Guide to the Development of Professional Portfolioshttp://www.edu.uleth.ca/fe/ppd/contents.htmlOther resourceshttp://www-tep.ucsd.edu/portfolionews/PNResources.htmlhttp://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/bibs/portfoli
• PowerPoint in the Classroom
  Written for K-12 students, this tutorial covers all the basics and more of using the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software. This Microsoft-related site also includes tutorials on other Microsoft programs such as the e-mail software program Outlook Express, the Web browser Internet Explorer 4, and the Web site editor Front Page.
• Project Based Learning Checklist
  Project Based Learning Checklist from www4teachers and the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium (check out the great tools at their site) - This is a cool site where you can easily build a checklist for or with your kids before they write, do an oral or multimedia presentation or an experiment. They will know what to look for when they self-evaluate their work.
• Research in Education
  The online Research in Education page of Education Week, listed under thespecial Reports section, provides in-depth coverage of the latest findingsand trends in education research. This page offers a compilation of recentresearch-related articles, , andunderscores the increasing influence of rigorous education research.
• Research It!
  - dictionary, thesaurus, famous quotes, maps, translation
• Resource Listing for Weather and Climate
  *Instruction - This document is intended to assist those who teach weather and climate at any level from pre-school through introductory college level courses, by listing some of the available instructional resources. Teachers will find information about resources from the American Meteorological Society and Project Atmosphere including the formation of the Atmospheric Education Resource Agent (AERA) network, DataStreme, AAAS, the American Geological Institute, and others, with information about audiovisual materials, computer software, and data sources.
• Resources for Teachers at the Folger Shakespeare Library
  The Folger Shakespeare Library, a private research institution, is the world's most significant repository of Shakespearean material. Its holdings, which include the largest collection of English Renaissance books outside of the U.K., attract scholars and educators of international repute. The Folger Shakespeare Library is now more than a research center; it creates and runs a variety of humanities programs which reach out to both the scholarly community and the general public.In 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell addressed their introduction to the First Folio of Shakespeare, "To the great Variety of readers / From the most able, to him that can but spell." Even though these words might have been intended to capture a larger market share in the seventeenth century book trade, the words have proven true, time and time again. Shakespeare's genius and appeal defies the limits of time, place, and age. As the twentieth century has turned to the twenty-first, the interest in this late sixteenth, early seventeenth century poet and playwright has endured. Shakespeare is as popular in universities in Japan as he is in elementary classrooms in the District of Columbia. Shakespeare wrote plays, and plays are meant to be performed, not just studied. Even though new technologies provide wonderful access to digitized images of the First Folio and to historical documents and illustrations, "the play's the thing." Bringing students and teachers to Shakespeare must start with language and performance, and getting students up on their feet with his words in their mouths is still the best way to engage them with Shakespeare and involve them in active learning.
• Searching for Digital Libraries in Education:
  Why computers cannot tell the story. Library Trends, 45 (4), Special issue: "Children and the digital library", 746-770. Abstract This article argues for the evaluation of digital libraries in schools by drawing upon situated observations, an exploration of educational goals, and a discusssion of current technologies. As most of the research and development of digital libraries has been directed toward specialized workplace settings, the authors posit that an unrealized potential exists for the development of educational digital libraries, raising a number of current questions and challenges. First, the meanings and practices of information searching and information use are explored from the perspectives of teachers and students. The article next focuses upon contexts of library activity, emphasizing how physical and digital spaces carry their own meanings in relation to the scho ol community and pedagogical practices. Further, these physical and digital spaces articulate and become the contexts of new hybrid practices and roles for educators and students alike.
• SOHO: Exploring the Sun
  The International Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a cooperative project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). See real time photos of the sun taken from outer space. Find daily solar data as well as links and educational information for the layperson and the solar physicist. Subscribe to receive "What's New" messages by e-mail.
• Soundzabound.com
  Soundzabound.com - Royalty Free Music
• Special Needs Education Network (SNE)
  This resource directory is in two parts: A Directory of Organizations active in special needs education and an organized collection of links to Internet sites for Special Needs Education. Sections include: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Autism, Blindness/Sight Impairments, Deafness, Developmental Disabilities, Down Syndrome, Dyslexia, English as a Second Language (ESL), Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Gifted Education, Learning Disabilities, Multiple Sclerosis, Technology and Special Needs, and more.
• Teacher Professional Development
  WestEd projects support teachers___ career-long growth and development, beginning with preservice education and continuing with induction, inservice, and mentoring programs. Professional development efforts also address the learning needs of child-care professionals and professional developers themselves.Which programs are involved with Teacher Professional Development?Assessment and Standards Development Services (ASDS)Center for Child and Family Studies (CCFS)Center for Prevention and Early Intervention (CPEI)Learning InnovationsNational Center for Improving Science Education (NCISE)Policy ProgramProfessional and Organizational Learning (POL)Science and Mathematics ProgramTeacher Professional Development Program (TPD)Western Regional Educational Laboratory (WREL)
• Teacher Resource Page
  A compendium of teacher activities for the classroom. Make a barometer or explain the Doppler effect with a classroom activity. Show the class why the sky is blue or show the difference between relative humidity and the dew point. The page includes information about Project DataStreme as well as resource links.
• Teacher's Mind Resources
  Proposing a teacher-based approach to educational reform, the Teacher's MindResources site is built around a recently published study of education,entitled _Teaching in Mind: How Teacher Thinking Shapes Education_. Whilelargely promotional, the site offers a great deal of perspective into thecurrent analysis of reformist trends and initiatives to stand on its own asa valuable source of insight and inspiration to educators at every level.Philosophically, the site's author is convinced that popular efforts toapply "universal" educational standards are meaningless - if they fail totake into account what each teacher brings to the class as an individual.Thus, it focuses on the teacher's mind as a unique tool destined tointerpret every mandated standard differently and uniquely. Offering forums,media, and recently published research in the area, the Teacher's Mind sitelooks both to inform and engage all users.
• Teachers Teaching Teachers
  3 BackgroundT3 is teachers teaching teachers to provide the best professional development program for the appropriate use of educational technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science worldwide. There are now T3 courses covering mathematics and science topics from primary school through high school and university. Today the T3 program operates in more than 25 countries around the world. We anticipate that additional countries will join the program. If your country has no T3 program listed, contact info@t3ww.org for further information.The principle of teachers teaching teachers is the cornerstone of this program. T3 Instructors have been trained to teach others how to use calculators and computers in appropriate ways to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics and science.T3 was founded at The Ohio State University by Professors Frank Demana and Bert Waits.In the summer of 1988 they offered three one-week courses for teachers to learn how to use the power of computer and graphing calculator visualizations to enhance the teaching and learning of pre-calculus mathematics (pre-calculus is the course in US high schools typically preceding a calculus course). Beginning in the summer of 1995, Demana and Waits invited interested educators to participate in their annual T3 summer institute week at Ohio State. That experience and participation in other T3 conferences created the need to expand the T3 program to countries outside the US.
• Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources
  Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources This site, created by two librarians at the Wolfgram Memorial Library of Widener University, provides a set of checklists to help users analyze the quality of the information at various websites. Types of pages include advocacy, business/marketing, informational, news, and personal web pages.
• Teaching, Learning &Technology:
  A Report on 10 years of ACOT Research. (1995). Publication L01567A. Cupertino, CA: Apple Computer, Inc.
• Teachology
  Teachology is a series of staff development segments available for teachers and administrators to utilize on the web. The first three segments spotlight teachers implementing effective and motivational strategies in their classrooms. The fourth segment focuses on teachers using technology to connect with other educators and online education opportunities.
• Technology Integration Proficiency Rubric
  Technology Integration Proficiency Rubric Rubric for assessing teacher integration of technology.
• Technology Resources for Teachers
  Resources to help teachers make the best use of technology in teaching their day-to-day curriculum.Please note that this section is based on abstracts found in ENC's database of K-12 materials. All ENC abstracts are descriptions rather than evaluative reviews.Source www.enc.org
• TERC
  Founded in 1965, TERC is a not-for-profit education research and development organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts.TERC's mission is to improve mathematics, science, and technology teaching and learning. TERC works at the edges of current theory and practice to:*contribute to understanding of learning and teaching*foster professional development*develop applications of new technologies*create curricula and other products*support school reformThey imagine a future in which learners from diverse communities engage in creative, rigorous, and reflective inquiry as an integral part of their lives.
• The ABC's of Web Site Evaluation by Kathy Schrock
  The author states this as the ABC's or beginning evaluation of web sites for teacher use in quality instruction.
• The Anacostia Museum and Center for African-American History and Culture
  Focuses on modern African-American history and culture.
• The Archaeology Channel
  The Archaeology Channel isa public-education project of our nonprofit, tax-exemptorganization, Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI).We created this streaming-media website as a way ofsharing with people everywhere the important messagesof archaeology and indigenous peoples. TAC has valueto educators in a variety of ways. Our on-demandstreaming video and audio content may be used inclassroom lessons and we have a Teacher Resources area(accessible from our home page) that includes lessonplans and other kinds of information designed to assistteachers in employing archaeology in the classroom. Weare constantly expanding our list of videos (29 so far)and audio programs and adding new features. We arealso about to expand our Teacher Resources areadramatically by compiling links to curriculum elementsand other materials on the Web.We and all professional archaeological organizationsbelieve that archaeology has a largely untappedpotential to excite kids about learning and providevaluable lessons, and not only about the human past.Archaeology is a valuable means of encouragingtolerance, multicultural perspectives and respect fordiversity. Because archaeology involves many differentdisciplines, it can be used to teach any subject underthe sun, including social studies, math, science,geography, writing, art, and many others. ALI iscommitted to promoting the use of archaeology byeducators at all levels.
• The Assessment Program at NWREL
  The Assessment Program at NWREL is dedicated to providing the highest quality research, services and products for teachers and schools across the nation and world.http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/Oral CommunicationOur unique approach to oral communication assessment and instruction reinforces both academic and career-related communication competencies.Listed below you will find the NWREL Oral Communication Scoring Guidelines (Rubrics).Scoring GuidesCustomer Service Communication RubricsThe CSR (customer service representative) rubric is a modified version of the EAR model and can be used for instruction and assessment of work-related communication behaviors. Applications include school-to-work and business settings.EAR Related to SCANS Comparison ChartThe E.A.R. Assessment System and the SCANS Interpersonal Communication Competencies.Group AssessmentOral Assessment
• The Braille Bug
  http://www.afb.org/braillebug/parents_teachers.aspThe American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) created the Braille Bug web site to teach sighted children about braille, and to encourage literacy among all children. AFB--a national nonprofit founded in 1921 and the organization to which Helen Keller devoted more than 40 years of her life--addresses the critical issues, such as literacy, that are facing America's ten million blind or visually impaired children and adults.
• The Coastal Ocean Observatory Laboratory room (aka COOLroom)
  The Rutgers Marine and Coastal Sciences (RMCS), in conjunction with the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JCNERR) has addressed the need for innovative materials that provide educators with the knowledge and skills they need to develop scientific literacy in their students The COOL Classroom is a series of Internet-based instructional modules that link middle and high school classrooms with active research investigations at the Rutgers Marine & Coastal Sciences (RMCS) COOLroom, a collaboration of oceanographers studying the coastal ocean off the coast of New Jersey. Here you will find information about how to use the COOL projects and printable teachers guides. The Coastal Ocean Observatory Laboratory room (aka COOLroom) is where a group of scientists are collaborating to develop a three-dimensional understanding of the ocean over time. And it is, quite literally, one room. Since 1997, this room has served as command central for studies being conducted on a cross-section of the ocean off the New Jersey coast, and is where scientists interpret the results so they can be published on the world wide web for anyone's use.
• The Dirksen Congressional Center's Web Suite
  The Dirksen Congressional Center's Web Suite --http://www.dirksencongressionalcenter.org -- has been selected as the2002 winner of the APSA Information Technology Politics Section's BestWeb Site in the Professional category. The APSA committee found TheCenter's Web suite to be "an outstanding example of a site that providescomprehensive content utilizing a clean design that [is] easy tonavigate while providing a variety of teaching materials andactivities." An announcement regarding the award is available on theAPSA Section Web site at: http://www.apsanet.org/~itp/.
• The Exploratorium
  This is a very rich web site which is from a learning place that has a variety of resources for teachers, students, and parents. There are the ten cool sites, and there are webcasts, and all kinds of learning involving sports , physics and lots of science and math.
• The Gateway
  http://www.thegateway.org/This is a great searching site for K-12 lessons and other teacher's materials.
• The Global Schoolhouse
  Offers programs that help teachers integrate use of the Internet into their teaching. Intended for all levels of Internet use, and includes activities for students at all age levels.
• The Jane Goodall Institute
  The Jane Goodall Instituteadvances the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment for all living things. With Dr. Jane Goodall's words and example as guiding principles, the Institute inspires hope for a brighter future.
• The LOC.gov Wise Guide
  This Wise Guide portal was designed to introduce you to the many fascinating, educational and useful resources available from the nation's library and one of the most popular Web sites of the federal government. The federal government and the Library of Congress, in particular, maintain and develop hundreds of Web sites. For the user, navigating this online labyrinth can be rather daunting. Thankfully, the Library of Congress has partnered with the Ad Council to create the "Wise Guide," which is refreshed monthly (much like a magazine or periodical), and offers links to "the best of the Library's online materials." Currently, the site has eight archived issues of the Wise Guide and the most current edition as well. In the most recent edition (June 2003), visitors can follow links to materials dealing with Father's Day, John Philip Sousa (and the recent reconstruction of his "Library of Congress March"), and an amusing collection of dance instruction manuals from 1490 to 1920. This helpful online compendium will be a great boon to those looking to keep up to date about some of the most useful online materials available from a number of federal government sponsored sites.
• The NASA Why? Files
  The NASA Why? FilesThe NASA Why? Files is a U.S.distance learning initiative that integrates the use of a television broadcast, web site, and educator's guide. The project uses Problem-Based Learning to introduce students in grades 3-5 to NASA research and missions. The television broadcast(or videotapes) and web site provides students with the opportunity to learn subject matter and develop problem-solving skills while engaged in real-world problems.
• The National Lightning Safety Page
  Here's lots of information about lightning safety. You can download the Online Lightning Quiz to your computer by clicking on the .exe file. Be aware that this is a very large file.
• The National Report on e-Learning
  The National Report on e-Learning: Putting a World-class education at the fingertips of all children. (2000). Publication of the Office of Educational Technology, Washington, D.C. http://www.ed.gov/Technology/elearning/index.html
• The Pantheon
  The Greek world of gods and goddesses is extremely intricate, and The Pantheon Web site provides an effective way to begin learning about this world, both for beginners and for those looking to brush up on their knowledge of their exploits and times.
• The Tomb of Tutankhamon
  This is a site that puts you in the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamon. You have the actual tour of the ways in which the tomb was originally explored after its discovery. This is in fascinating detail with notes. You will miss the smells, the darkness and the silence of the tomb, but you will see it in amazing detail in photographs.
• The Virtual Cave
  This site tells the story of caves in words and pictures: what's in them and how it got there. Because caves are so diverse, I've split them into four underground realms. Grab three sources of light, a helmet, some sturdy boots, and your mouse, and people can have fun exploring sea caves, lava caves, solution caves and erosional caves.
• The WebQuest Page
  A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March.
• The WWW Virtual Library
  The WWW Virtual LibraryAgricultureAgriculture, Gardening, Forestry, Irrigation...Business and EconomicsEconomics, Finance, Marketing, Transportation...ComputingComputing, E-Commerce, Languages, Web...Communications and MediaCommunications, Telecommunications, Journalism...EducationEducation, Applied Linguistics, Linguistics...EngineeringCivil, Chemical, Electrical...HumanitiesAnthropology, History, Museums, Philosophy...Information&LibrariesGeneral Reference, Information Quality, Libraries...International AffairsInternational Security, Sustainable Development, UN...LawArbitration, Law, Legal History...RecreationRecreation and Games, Gardening, Sport...Regional StudiesAfrican, Asian, Latin American, West European...ScienceBiosciences, Health, Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry...SocietyPolitical Science, Religion, Social Sciences...
• Traces: Historic Archaeology
  Traces: Historic Archaeology (3-5)In this unit, students will "recover" and analyze artifacts from sites in use from the settlement period to the second half of the 19th century. They will look for similarities and differences among the artifacts and the lives they reveal. In conclusion, students will look at today's artifacts of the future and consider how we will be viewed in the future.
• U.S. Education Standards
  Education World presents the objectives of the voluntary National Education Standards for the major subject areas. This site allows educators to stay abreast of the current efforts being made in the area of National Standards.
• Urban Classroom Success Stories
  Urban Classroom Success Stories Featured in October Issue Of Enc Focus. http://www.enc.org/text/focus/ In the fall issue of ENC Focus, teachers who work in urban classrooms sharetheir approaches to math and science instruction, and at the same time point out that their challenge is the same as their colleagues' in suburban and rural schools-to teach all children well. Two of the nation's best-known spokes persons for successful teaching in difficult environments. Kay Toliver and Ruby Payne-are featured in this issue. Toliveris interviewed by Terese Herrera, mathematics resource specialist, ENC. Based on her 30 years in New York City classrooms. Toliver recounts ways she used the urban environment to bring math alive to her students. RubyPayne has studied the "hidden rules" that operate in all classrooms but often lead to misunderstandings with children from generational poverty. Her article will help others recognize the rules and their outcomes. Other articles show how teachers take advantage of the many learning resources in urban centers. In Los Angeles County, California, and in Ithaca, New York, teachers and natural history museums join forces togather data on modern-day biodiversity and fossil records. Examples of K-12 teachers and university teachers working together are found in descriptions of projects across the country--in Hamilton County, Ohio, Little Rock, SanFrancisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Nashville, and New York City. The content of the issue will be online after October 1 and expanded to include three articles that do not appear in the print version. Online you can quickly access the discussion areas for this issue, adding your own prescriptions for success in the classroom or your observations on the ideas presented.
• USGS Learning Web
  K-12 students, can come get what they need to do homework.Project IdeasPut creativity into your project.Homework HelpHomework has never been easier!Lesson plans and activities for teachers to use in the classroom.Lesson Plans&ActivitiesTeach with innovative activities.Paper ModelsClassroom projects can be fun!Resources for anyone who is curious about natural science.Research ToolsReadings, careers, Q-&-A's, and more.Special TopicsEarth hazards and more.Playtime WizardFun activities for kids.* Coloring Pages* Trivia Games* Topo Bingo NEW!* Printable Bookmarks NEW!Image WizardSee cool pictures!Clipart
• VolcanoWorld
  The Web's Premier Source for Volcano InformationVolcanoWorld has been the Internet's leading source of information about volcanoes since January 1995. Each year VW serves about 4 million different users, including grade school kids, teachers, college students, professors, researchers, government scientists and the general public. VolcanoWorld was originally funded by NASA and hosted at the University of North Dakota. VW is now part of BrainSpace, a non-profit organization devoted to informal learning for kids and adults of all ages. Click the top button to the left to find out more about the new VW, or use the buttons along the top to go straight to volcanoes and eruptions! Have a good visit, but don't step in any hot lava!
• VORTEX: Unraveling the Secrets - A Storybook This project, Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment
  VORTEX: Unraveling the Secrets - A Storybook This project, Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment, helps teachers and students understand facts about tornadoes and shows how the scientific method of making observations, collecting data, and developing and testing hypotheses to reach an informed conclusion is used.
• Wayback Machine
  The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf more than 10 billion pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. Collection includes Web, Moving Images, Texts, Audio, Software. Still not sure what's so cool about this site? Go to http://webdev.archive.org/web/web.php, enter a URL, click "Take Me Back"and see how many years of the site have been archived.Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School, College, Adult/Professional Content Area: Community Interest (Reference Desk), Technology (Internet) [Dewey #600] Application type: References & Tools
• WebQuest Rubric Template and Rubric Collection
  WebQuest Rubric Template and Rubric Collection can be found at this site produced by Education Service Center Region 20 (San AntonioTX) and teachers in that region.The site features rubrics to evaluate student products created as a result of webquests. Some are based on the excellent rubric template found at the Rubric Collection web site, while the majority are based on the ingenuity and creativity of teachers.http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/rubrics/Default.htm
• Windows to the Universe
  This site represents interdisciplinary lessons in astronomy, global change, weather, mythology on three levels advance, medium and beginner. There are specialized teacher pages and workpages for students.Lesson Plans and Activities for the ClassroomToolsTeacher WorkbookClassroom ActivitiesEducational LinksTeachers___ Share-A__"ThonEducational Standards SearchClimate and Global ChangeWorkshop for Educators
• WWW.4teachers
  This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a free, Web based monthly publication that provides a place where educators and others with interests in K to 12 education can encounter new ideas about technology's role in education. At this site they can express their opinions, share experiences, and be inspired and educated by other teachers' narratives about using technology in educational settings. The site features interviews, Web lessons, and surveys as well as online lesson plans that guide students through an annotated set of sites (URLs) on such subjects as language arts, science, mathematics, and research in teaching. Abstracted 10/97. (Author/LCT)from www.enc.org
• Xpeditions Greeting Friends from Other Places (K-2)
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/gk2/friends.htmlStudents will be introduced to map reading by examining the___Afghanistan, Land in Crisis___ map (available in print or online). Students will practice different types of greetings and learn how children in Afghanistan might greet one another.