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Internet Resources for Educators

This is an annotated guide to some of the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and issues so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily. This information exists in the form of facts, opinions, stories, interpretations, and statistics. It was created for many purposes (to inform, to persuade, to sell, to present a viewpoint, and to create or change an attitude or belief).

Before you begin Internet surfing, take a minute to ask yourself what exactly you are looking for. Do you want facts, opinions (authoritative or just anyone's), reasoned arguments, statistics, narratives, eyewitness reports, descriptions?

Please be aware that the World Wide Web is constantly changing and evolving. If you are unable to access a site, it might be temporarily under construction or it might be permanently closed. If you experience this for a particular site, please inform the webmaster.

 

Categories
Accreditation
Administration and Education
Adolescence in Education
Art Education
Charter Schools
Computer Education
Critical Thinking
Curriculum
Department of Education
Distance Education
Diversity
Early Childhood Education
Electronic Texts/Journals
Elementary Education
English Literature
Equity in Education
ERIC
Family Involvement in Education
Global Education
Higher Education
History Education
Home Schooling
Leadership
Lesson Plans
Math Education
Music Education
Physical Fitness Education
Policies in Education
Professional Development
Search Engines for Educators
School Reform
Science and Math Education
Special Education Standards in Education
Technology in Education
Television
Women in Education

Accreditation
The following associations accredit colleges, universities, and other degree-granting institutions of higher education:

 

Administration and Education

National Association of Secondary School Principals. NASSP is the nation's largest school leadership organization representing more than 46,000 middle level high school principals, assistant principals, and university professors. NASSP's online service brings to users of the Internet World Wide Web a wealth of information about the Association's activities. It will appeal to administrators, teachers, students, parents, and community and business leaders.
URL: http://www.nassp.org/

The American Federation of Teachers. AFT is a 984,000-member union of public and professional employees, including public and private school teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel (PSRPs), higher education faculty and professionals, employees of state and local governments, nurses and health professionals. The union exists to serve the interests of its members as determined by democratic processes at the local, state and national levels. For the most part, those interests have to do with:

establishing job security and fairness, usually through collective bargaining and legislative action;
empowering AFT members to participate in efforts to uphold high standards for their professions and the institutions in which they work;
disseminating information on professional issues and providing programs of training and professional development;
working in coalition with other organizations to address issues that affect all working Americans, such as access to affordable health care, employment opportunity, social justice and much more.
URL: http://www.aft.org/

National Endowment for the Arts.  Contains information on the arts community and contains a broad Arts Resource Center which permits viewers to read through an online catalogue of Endowment publications (many of them free of charge), to find contact information and links to arts service organizations, state arts agencies and regional arts organizations, and to read online versions of selected print publications.

URL:  http://arts.endow.gov/

Teacher's Workshop website. Includes instructions for specific disciplinary and instructional tactics as well as options for a managed listserv for teachers to post a description of their disciplinary and/or instructional issue and get comments from teachers around the world. See New Teaching Ideas, Listserv, and Teacher Exchange (a location for teachers to find cross-class pen-pals for their class). [Link suggestion: Dr. E. Bender]

URL: http://www.teachersworkshop.com/


Adolescence and Education

Adolescence Directory Online (ADOL) is an electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. It is a service of the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University. Educators, advisors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use ADOL to find Web resources for these topics: Conflict and Violence Resources about violence prevention and peer mediation; Mental Health Issues; ADHD, eating disorders, depression, adolescent development, and other issues related to the psychological well-being of teens; Health Issues; Alcohol and other drugs, obesity, AIDS, sexuality, acne, and other health related concerns. Advisor Resources:  Resources to help advisors find information fast. Includes info on professional organizations and links to other resources; Teen zines, help with homework, sports info, penpals, and games.

URL: http://education.indiana.edu/cas/adol/adol.html

Art Education
Art Times is a literary journal and resource for all the arts, publishing essays about music, dance, theater, film and the visual arts; reviews major art exhibitions; profiles personalities in the arts; publishes original short fiction and poetry; critiques the work of living artists; and offers brief reviews of new art books and videos. Each issue also features an extensive "Cultural Events Calendar" which includes the major museum shows in the Northeast's art centers of New York City, Boston and Washington, D.C. and an "Opportunities Column" where artists, writers, musicians and actors are alerted to calls for entries.

URL: http://www.scultura.com/ArtTimes/ArtTimes.html

Charter Schools

CharterFriends National Network.  The Network's mission is to promote the charter opportunity connecting and supporting resource centers and other state-level charter support activities.  The Network pursues its mission through publications, conferences, online communications, a grant program, and multi-state initiatives on high priority issues  including charter school accountability, facilities financing and special education. (Added 10/15/98 from A. Arendt)

URL: http://www.charterfriends.org/

US Charter Schools.  Contains topics on starting and running a charter school.  Also has discussion groups, a resource directory, State information and contacts, and profiles. (Added 10/15/98 from A. Arendt)

URL: http://www.uscharterschools.org/

Computer Education

What's Working in Education. An Online Companion to The Learning Connection.  The Learning Connection: Schools in the Information Age interviewed many educators about their real-world experience using computers in the classroom. While the Learning Connection touches upon their experience, this What's Working in Education goes into greater detail about the "hows" and "how nots," and other lessons learned in the field.

URL: http://www.benton.org/Practice/Edu/

Critical Thinking

Relationship between epistemology and critical thinking. How do we view knowledge? Theories of intellectual development (Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, & Tarule, 1986; Perry, 1970) and reflective judgment (King & Kitchener, 1994) address individuals' beliefs or assumptions about the source of knowledge and the meaning of "truth."

URL: http://biology.uoregon.edu/Biology_WWW/Workshop_Biol/model/thinking.html

The following list comes from a Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources by Nicole Auer Library Instruction Coordinator Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. This bibliography, originally created for a panel discussion at a regional conference in Wisconsin, has grown with the increasing number of documents which address the problems and issues related to teaching and using critical thinking skills to evaluate Internet resources.

 


Curriculum

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth." This is a very nicely organized and presented virtual library of numerous links for educators and students in the following subjects: ARTS; BUSINESS; EDUCATION; ENTERTAINMENT; GRANTS; HEALTH; HISTORY; LITERATURE; MATHEMATICS; SCIENCE; SOCIAL STUDIES; TECHNOLOGY; TRAVEL...

URL: http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/

Department of Education

U.S. Department of Education.  Contains:  President's and Secretary's Priorities; Funding opportunities; Student financial assistance; Research and statistics; News and events; Programs and services; Publications and products; ED offices and budget; Year 2000; and other sites.

URL: http://www.ed.gov/

Database of U.S. Department of Education Publications in ERIC.  Find any publication produced or funded by the U.S. Department of Education since its creation in 1980 which appears in ERIC, the world's largest bibliographic database of education literature. The database currently lists 23,380 publications entered into the ERIC database through May 1998 (note that publications released in the last few months may not yet be in the database).

URL: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/pubdb.html

Distance Education

National Center for Education Statistics.  This is a full-text electronic version of the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) report entitled, "Distance Education in Higher Education Institutions"

URL: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/distance/index.html

Distance Education Clearinghouse.  This site is maintained by University of Wisconsin-Extension, its partners and other UW institutions.  It contains distance education articles and resources.  Some areas of emphasis include:   InfoSource; Distance Education Systemwide Interactive Electronic Newsletter; Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning; Virtual Initiatives for Technology, Teaching and Learning (VIT2AL).

URL: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

Diversity

The National Forum on People's Differences. "The goal of this memorable web site is simple but profound; to get people talking. Racism, stereotyping and other difference-based problems can be the result of misinformation or ignorance. This forum offers visitors the unique opportunity to confront their feelings head-on by asking difficult or embarrassing questions of people from different cultural or ethnic backgrounds. Past topics include subtle racism, sexual orientation and ageism, and the interactions are edited to make them clear and suitable for general audiences. 'Dare to ask. Dare to answer.'"

URL: http://www.yforum.com/

Early Childhood Education

The Montessori Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Montessori education in the United States and abroad. They offer programs and resources to Montessori parents, teachers, school administrators, board members, and to anyone interested in learning more about Montessori education.

URL: http://www.montessori.org/ssori.org/

The Canadian Council of Montessori Administrators (CCMA) supports Montessori school administrators in Canada and promotes AMI/MACTE standards of Montessori education. We offer expertise in Montessori school administration and the Montessori Method of education. This Website contains information about Montessori schools, the Montessori Method of education, and other Montessori resources on the Web.

URL: http://www.ccma.ca/ccma/

Child Care Experts National Network Home Page. A resource dedicated to helping parents and their employers access information about child development, child care, early education, family support, and dependent care resources from local experts across the country. Also offers a service to connect users with community-based resources and referral agencies to help find quality child care.

URL: http://www.childcare-experts.org/

PBS Online.  Offers more than 1,000 free lesson plans, teacher guides, and online activities.  Created for pre K-12 educators.  Resources are grouped into six areas:  Arts and Literature, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Health and Vocation, and TechKnow for Teachers. (Added 10/15/98 per request of Marilyn Simon).

URL:  http://www.pbs.org/

Electronic Texts/Journals

Alex.  Alex allows users to find and retrieve full-text of documents on the Internet. It currently indexes hundreds of books and shorter texts by author and title, incorporating texts from Project Gutenberg, Wiretap, the Online Book Initiative, the Eris system at Virginia Tech, the English Server at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Online portion of the Oxford Text Archive. Subjects represented include: classics; comedy; drama; economics; education; fiction; history; language; law; music; philosophy; photography; poetry; politics; religion; sciences; and, sociology among others.

URL: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/alex-index.html

Teacher College Record. The Teachers College Record is a journal of research, analysis and commentary in the field of education, published continuously since 1900 by Teachers College, Columbia University. Index of professional peer-reviewed educational journals.

URL: http://tcrecord.tc.columbia.edu/

Elementary Education


Berit Cochran Interactive's Online Librarian. A list of Best Sites for Children! Each site has been carefully selected, reviewed and given a rating out of 5. Major topic areas are Just For Fun (arts, crafts, recreation), Kids on the Net (pen pals, elementary schools, kid/family home pages), Creatures Great and Small (various animals & other critters).

URL: http://www.liu.se/isk/eng/childres/chrhome1.html

Serious Stuff (academic subject-related sites), And More . . . (safe play on the Internet, other kids sites). You can click on a sub-topic name to go to the sites in that area; once you're there, you can scroll through the entire list. A well-done, well-annotated set of hot buttons for children.

URL: http://db.cochran.com/li_toc:theoPage.db 

English-Literature


The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letter, drama, and music. Now your students can learn about past Pulitzer winners, as well as the history of the awards through this official Web site. The main feature of this site is an archive of past Pulitzer-Prize winning works. Visitors will find photos, editorial cartoons, music clips, and the full text of all winning articles from 1995 to the present. Although winners from 1917 on are listed briefly, there are plans to update the site to include complete archives for these earlier years."

URL: http://www.pulitzer.org/navigation/index.html

Equity in Education

The Education Alliance for Equity and Excellence in the Nation's Schools is an organization based at Brown University that responds to the needs of diverse student populations in the public schools. Believing that language, culture, and diversity are fundamental to the success of educational reform, the Alliance creates partnerships with educators, policy-makers, researchers, and business and community agencies to promote: Advocacy at the national and local level; Leadership training for superintendents and staff; Language and culture curriculum designs; Inclusionary program models and practices and Action research and publications

URL: http://www.brown.edu/Research/The_Education_Alliance/

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education.  (ENC) has launched a new Web project titled Making Schools Work for Every Child, is a collaborative effort between ENC and the Equity Task Force of the National Network of Eisenhower Regional Consortia and Clearinghouse (NNERCC). The site is a resource for educators concerned about creating equitable classroom conditions in which every child can succeed at school. These Web pages include a collection of math and science materials to help teachers and administrators acknowledge children's diverse strengths, identify inequities, and improve the ways educators currently serve students with varied needs.

URL: http://equity.enc.org/

ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center

ERIC Document Reproduction Service. The ERIC Document Reproduction Service, is the document delivery component of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). ERIC is a nationwide information network designed to provide ready access to education literature. The ERIC database is the world's largest index to journal articles and documents in education, containing over 800,000 citations. Approximately one-half of the entries in the ERIC database (or 400,000 citations) relate to education documents. Identified by unique ED numbers, ERIC documents include a wide variety of resources such as teaching guides, research reports, bibliographies, issue papers, instructional materials, and test and evaluation instruments. EDRS makes these non-journal resources available to the public in microfiche collections as well as individually. Approximately 92% of the documents abstracted in ERIC are available from EDRS.

URL: http://edrs.com/

Ask ERIC.  AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, advisors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world. It began in 1992 as a project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on  Information & Technology at Syracuse University. Today, it encompasses the resources of the entire ERIC system and  beyond. (Added to list 10/14/98. Suggestion by Mary Campbell)

URL: http://askeric.org/

There are many sites available for searching ERIC documents. One of the best is:

URL: http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?searchform+ericdb

Family Involvement in Education

"A Business Guide to Support Employee & Family Involvement in Education" (from the Conference Board, 1997) is designed to provide business leaders with information about policies & practices that promote employee & family involvement in education.

URL: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/BusinessGuide/

Global Education

Best Practices in Education. Best Practices in Education is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to working with American teachers to find effective educational practices from other countries to adapt and apply in United States schools. They sponsor innovative projects with tangible goals and facilitate their delivery to US classrooms in pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade.

URL: http://www.bestpraceduc.org/

Global SchoolNet Foundation.  Global Schoolnet offers resources for teachers and instructors to share, compare, and prepare learning materials.  It also contains an area for children and teens.

URL:  http://www.gsn.org/

Higher Education

Chronicle of Higher Education. The online edition allows users to check on job opportunities both in education and in industry. It's also a rich source of higher education news.

URL: http://chronicle.com/

HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH META-INDEX: Hyperlinks to various research resources across the nation.  This page is designed specifically for Institutional Researchers and the educational research community at large. It is a continuously updated list of research and governmental resources available on the Internet and World Wide Web.

URL: http://www.irp.panam.edu/more_html/utpa_erlist.html

Council of Graduate Schools. The CGS homepage is a work in progress and will be continually updated and modified as more information becomes available. Meetings, publications, government relations, research, awards and other programs offered thorough the Council, items of interest to faculty and students, diversity and international issues are some of the areas that will be covered in depth on the CGS website.

URL: http://www.cgsnet.org/

A Brief Summary of the Best Practices in College Teaching. A collection of practices that constitute excellence in college teaching compiled by Tom Drummond of North Seattle Community College.  It is intended to challenge the professional development of all teachers.

URL: http://nsccux.sccd.ctc.edu/~eceprog/bstprac.html

History Education

This Black History site offers a full range of activities and explores African-American issues on the Web.  It contains five activities which were created as models for ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning. Black History was chosen as a topic because of its popularity and the wealth of Internet resources available on the topic.

URL: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html

The Civil Rights Movement: A Black History Celebration.  Another terrific interdisciplinary Web project from George Cassutto and his students. Ninth grade students posted over 20 separate pages offering information and perspectives on the Civil Rights movement. Explore the activities and format as inspiration for guiding your own students to master a topic by becoming experts and posting a Website. Also look through other projects created by his interdisciplinary team in North Hagerstown, Maryland.

URL: http://www.fred.net/nhhs/project/civrts.htm

History Index. Consists of a single large file (approximately 200 Kb) offering about 3000 connections arranged alphabetically by subject and name.  Given the large number of sites of interest to historians, this index does not pretend to be exhaustive although the authors have attempted to include as many free public access sites as come to their attention. The general aim is to offer a sufficient number and variety of pointers to suggest the wealth of material available, to allow the user to build a personal bookmark file quickly and effectively, and to provide those building web sites a convenient source of pointers. Links to sites providing particularly good resources and those pointing to major subsections of this index are in bold font and followed by the symbol ==>

URL: http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/history/index.html

Home Schooling


Homeschool Zone is an online virtual community of homeschoolers, afterschoolers, parents, and educators. Weekly FREE newsletter; discussions; LIVE chat conferences & guest speakers; cool web links; homeschooling info, support & listings; penpal addresses

URL: http://www.caro.net/~joespa/

Leadership


ASCD is an international, nonprofit, not partisan education association committed to provide leadership in educational change and innovation.

URL: http://www.ascd.org/

Lesson Plans


An effective lesson plan can make the difference between classroom success and failure. It's not easy to think of new and creative approaches. Before you recreate the wheel, see what other educators are doing to stir the minds of students. The following sites offer lesson plan ideas for all grade levels and subjects:

URL: http://www.libraryspot.com/lessonplans.htm

Teachers Helping Teachers. Internet home page by teachers, for teachers. This excellent site features teaching ideas and tips for all levels and subjects, ready for immediate implementation in the classroom; ideas for in- service sessions; a great listing of educational web links; and an online teacher chat room where educators from across the world can share ideas.

URL: http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html

PBS Online.  Offers more than 1,000 free lesson plans, teacher guides, and online activities.  Created for pre K-12 educators.  Resources are grouped into six areas:  Arts and Literature, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Health and Vocation, and TechKnow for Teachers. (Added 10/15/98 per request of Marilyn Simon).

URL:  http://www.pbs.org/

Math Education


The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. As the primary professional organization for teachers of mathematics in grades K-12, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has the responsibility to provide broad national leadership in matters related to mathematics education. In meeting this responsibility, NCTM has developed a set of standards for school mathematics that address content, teaching, and assessment. These standards are guidelines for teachers, schools, districts, states, and provinces to use in planning, implementing, and evaluating high-quality mathematics programs for kindergarten through grade 12.

URL: http://www.nctm.org/

This list comes from the Math Forum. Formerly the K-12 Teachers' Place, this section of the site is split by level, Pre-Kindergarten through High School:

 


COMPASS.  Curricular Options in Mathematics Programs for All Secondary Students.  COMPASS is a  secondary school implementation project funded in part by the National Science Foundation.  COMPASS provides information and assistance with the implementation of five comprehensive curriculum projects that support the Standards set forth by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics .

URL: http://www.ithaca.edu/compass/

E-MATH: A Guide to E-mail Based Volunteer Programs Designed to Help Students Master Challenging Mathematics, Science & Technology.  This guide describes some of the existing e-mail based volunteer programs. Each description includes a source for finding further information if you or your organization are interested in participating in, or initiating, a similar program. Also included are a description of essential elements that characterize telementoring initiatives and a list of useful telementoring resources.

URL: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/emath/

The Math Forum. The Math Formum contains math resources, key issues in math, a showcase, student center, and teacher's place.  The teacher's place holds information for both primary and secondary, and college and university levels of education.

URL: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/

The Fractal Microscope is an interactive tool designed by the Education Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for exploring the Mandelbrot set and other fractal patterns. By combining supercomputing and networks with the simple interface of a Macintosh or X-Windows workstation, students and teachers from all grade levels can engage in discovery-based exploration. The program is designed to run in conjunction with NCSA imaging tools such as DataScope and Collage. With this program students can enjoy the art of mathematics as they master the science of mathematics. This focus can help one address a wide variety of topics in the K-12 curriculum including scientific notation, coordinate systems and graphing, number systems, convergence, divergence, and self-similarity.

URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/Fractal/Fractal_Home.html

Music Education

Musicians and students of music have "scored" with this set of lists of musical scores from the American Music Center Library. Great numbers of scores are listed by composer and instrumentation. Jazz scores have a special listing. If you're a member of the Music Center you can actually check out 20 at a time. Center staff can generate custom lists of scores along a great number of parameters. Other areas of the Center resource include information on grants, publications, musicians and more. (Link updated 10/14/98 AA)

URL: http://www.amc.net/resources/library/scores.html

The Archives of African American Music and Culture is a center devoted to the research and study of African American music and culture. Collections include audio and video recordings, photographs, original scores, and oral histories, among other artifacts and ephemera related to popular, religious, and art musics, and Black radio.

URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/index.html

Physical Fitness Education

PE Central welcomes you to the ultimate Web site for physical education teachers, students, interested parents and adults. The goal is to provide the latest information about contemporary developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.

URL: http://pe.central.vt.edu/

Coaching Youth Sports. An electronic newsletter for Coaches, Athletes, and Parents. The purpose of this newsletter is to present information about learning and performing sport skills. This information comes mostly from the motor skill learning and sport psychology areas of the sport sciences. While the primary focus is on athletes in the 6-16 year age range, topics related to high school athletes may also be discussed. The content of articles will not deal with specific sports, but will be more generalized so as to apply to a variety of sports.

URL: http://www.chre.vt.edu/~/cys/

Policies in Education
The Education Policy Analysis Archives is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing analyses of education policy exclusively on the World Wide Web.

URL: http://epaa.asu.edu/

Professional Development

Tapped In.  Teacher Professional Development Institute.  Tapped In is a growing community of over 1700 K-14 teachers, staff from several professional development organizations, and researchers engaged in a professional discourse, collaborative work, and a variety of Online activities. Members have real-time discussions and classes in our "virtual conference center", browse Web sites together, learn about new professional development activities, and interact via mailing lists and discussion boards all in a single Online venue. It's put up by the ed folks at Stanford.

URL: http://tappedin.sri.com/

Science and Math Education Resources

This is part of SciEd, the HPCC/ESS K-12 Outreach Project, from the University of Washington. It includes: Science in the News, Ask Science Questions, Astronomy and Space Science, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Mathematics, Multiple Disciplines, Paleontology, Anthropology/Archeology, Science Museums and Exhibits, History of Science, Doing Science, Ethics in Science, Skepticism and Pseudoscience, Science Reference Shelf, Suppliers of Equipment and Software, Science Education Organizations, Other Science Links

URL: http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/science.html

The Why Files - Science Behind the News. Founded by the National Institute for Science Education.  Feature articles and discussion forum are available at this site.

URL: http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/

Science NetLinks. MCI, along with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has created a website that is a useful tool for science teachers in the classroom. The Website lists a number of science-related websites that have been evaluated by esteemed scientists. Each website goes through a rigorous evaluation process in which accuracy, relevance, and overall quality are evaluated. Once a website has been approved by the board of scientists, a link and description of the site it is placed on sciencene links, and then categorized (as biological, physical, etc.) Teachers should feel confident using these websites in classroom activities, since they have been evaluated by other scientists and found to be accurate.

URL: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/


PUMAS (poo' á mas) -- is a collection of one-page examples of how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can be used in interesting settings, including everyday life. The examples are written primarily by scientists and engineers, and are available to teachers, students, and other interested parties via the PUMAS Web Site. Our goal is to capture, for the benefit of pre-college science education, the flavor of the vast experience that working scientists have with interesting and practical uses of math and science... ( Ralph Kahn, PUMAS Editor and Founder)

URL: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/OER/innovation.html

Al Bodzin's Home Page. Al's web page serves as a resource for K-12 educators, especially science educators. He is currently a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in Instructional Technology for Science Education at North Carolina State University. Al learned to incorporate technology into his biology teaching while a high school teacher in South Carolina. This is an exceptionally well-done page with links to Al's personal favorite sites (Nanoworld, Ocean Planet, & Classroom Connect) and to pages with selected links to a lot of "great sites" in biology, ecology, science, and K-12 education.

URL: http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/a/ambodzin/public/home.htm

School Reform


New American Schools.  New American Schools is a dynamic coalition of teachers, administrators, parents, policymakers, community and business leaders, and experts from around the country committed to improving academic achievement for all students. NAS works to change American classrooms, schools, and school systems using designs  blueprints for reorganizing an entire school rather than a single program or grade level within it  and by providing assistance to help schools implement these designs successfully. All NAS designs have been validated through extensive research and testing. Currently, over 700 schools in 30 states throughout the country are using NAS designs. Eleven school districts and groups of districts have made a commitment to put NAS designs in place in at least 30 percent of their schools by the year 2000. (Added 11/11/98 per M. Simon)

URL: http://www.naschools.org/

Search Engines for Educators

My Virtual Reference Desk - Resources and Index for Educational sites.

URL: http://www.refdesk.com/educate.html

Education Links.  This list is maintained by the College of Education at University of Missouri - Columbia. The list includes the following categories:  General Resources, Associations, Curriculum, Especially for K-12 Students, Government, Journals and Periodicals, K-12 Schools and the Internet, and Publishers.

URL: http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/coelinks.html

David Stern's Demo HomePage. A librarian at Yale has pulled together wonderful instructions, hints, and resources for constructing a home page.

URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/scilib/dsdemo.html

Special Education


Center for Innovations in Special Education.  CISE is a collaborative effort between the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the University of Missouri-Columbia, College of Education. Their mission is to  provide professional development services and resources for those who ensure all learners achieve their potential.

URL: http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~mocise/

Standards in Education

Good teachers have standards in mind when they set their lessons up, where the idea of a "standard" represents a specific idea of what the teacher expects a student to recall, replicate, manipulate, understand, or demonstrate at some point down the road - and of how the teacher will know how close a student has come to meeting that standard.
Standards: Making them Useful & Workable for the Education Enterprise (1997).  This site examines how skill standards are used by education institutions & suggests how they can be used more effectively.

URL: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Standards/

Technology and Education


California Technology Assistance Project.  The Schools of California Online Resources for Educators Project (SCORE) supports the California curriculum frameworks and is funded by the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) and the California Technology Assistance Program (CTAP). CTAP provides direct links to the California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse, CalTIP (The California Technology Information Project-three major focuses: technology planning, grants and funding, and English Language learners), Early Reading & Technology Summer Institute, Internet Technical Academy, Telemation's Online Project Information Center, History/Social Science SCORE, Language Arts SCORE, Mathematics SCORE, Science SCORE, and California Department of Education. Also, links are provided to each of California's 11 regions.

URL: http://www.ctap.k12.ca.us/


The Digital Classroom : Primary Sources, Activities, and Training for Educators and Students. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) encourages teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom. The Digital Classroom provides materials from NARA, methods for teaching with primary sources, and sample lesson plans." Included are the following major sections:

  • Primary Sources and Activities -- Reproducible primary documents, lesson plans correlated to the National History Standards, and cross-curricular connections

  • Publications -- Educational materials published by the National Archives and Records Administration and available for purchase

  • Research and National History Day -- Student activities for navigating the resources of the NARA Web site

  • Professional Development -- Information on workshops and summer institutes for educators

 

URL: http://www.nara.gov/education/

Old Colorado City Communications. National Science Foundation. Wireless Field Test for Education Project.  This site is the publically available hub for reporting plans, progress reports, and test results related to the NSF Wireless Field Test for Education, the Mongolian Wireless Test Project, and the 1997-1999 Local History by Wireless Project. The Progress Reports section is the most active section. The Regulatory section contains public policy considerations.

URL: http://wireless.oldcolo.com/

Association for Educational Communications and Technology. The mission of AECT, "is to provide leadership in educational communications and technology by linking professionals holding common interest in the use of educational technology and its application to the learning process." Every year, approximately 1500 educators from across the United States and around the world convene to share ideas, discuss current issues, and present the results of their practices and research. AECT now boosts over 10 different divisions and 12 regional affiliates. Each division and affiliate have their own focus and flavor which means that there is something for everyone who attends the conference.

URL: http://www.aect.org/

From Now On : The Educational Technology Journal. A journal for educators providing articles on introducing and using information technology in schools. Articles are available in full text.

URL: http://fromnowon.org/

The Technology Source. This site provides thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools in teaching and in managing educational organizations.

URL: http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/

Education Technology. The Clinton Administration has made an unprecedented commitment to bringing technology into the classroom. As a central element of the President's lifelong learning agenda, the Administration created the President's Educational Technology Initiative. Recognizing that technology can help expand opportunities for American children to improve their skills, maximize their potential, and ready them for the 21st century, President Clinton and  Vice President Gore have challenged the nation to assure that all children are technologically literate by the dawn of the 21st century and equipped with the communication, math, science, reading, and critical thinking skills essential for enhancing learning and improving productivity and performance. This web page lists numerous grants that are available to educators to improve technology in their schools.

URL: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/tec-guid.html

Television


NASA... On the Cutting Edge is a series of interactive educational live shows that take students and educators on electronic field trips to laboratories, classrooms, NASA Centers, and remote sites across the country to experience science, mathematics, geography, and technology in real-world settings. Viewers will be able to see how the skills they are learning in school, including teamwork, cooperation, and commitment to excellence, are used by scientists, engineers, and other professionals every day.

NASA... On the Cutting Edge will be simulcast and rebroadcast on several distance learning networks, public television, and NASA Television. Post-program Webchats with NASA scientists let students continue exploring topics and careers on the cutting-edge of science.

URL: http://www.enc.org/news/nf_19980803.htm#4

Women in Education


The American Association of University Women is a national organization that promotes education and equity for all women and girls. Their commitment to these issues is reflected by the AAUW public policy program. AAUW is composed of three corporations: the Association, a 160,000-member organization with more than 1,600 branches nationwide that lobbies and advocates for education and equity; the AAUW Educational Foundation, which funds pioneering research on girls and education, community action projects, and fellowships and grants for outstanding women around the globe; and the AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund, which provides funds and a support system for women seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination in higher education.

URL: http://www.aauw.org/


 
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