From Now On :
Jamie McKenzie's award-winning online journal is dedicated toward
educational technology for engaged learning and literacy.
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"Information
Literacy Ideas and Teaching Strategies" : Joanne Troutner's article
in School Librarian is chock-full of links to worthwhile sites
to help you enrich your teaching with technology.
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"Five
Rules for Writing a Great WebQuest" by Bernie Dodge. Find out how
the FOCUS acronym/concept will help your students explore the Web more
productively, learn more and produce better results.
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AskEric's
Integrating Technology You'll find informed, linked coverage
of just about every facet of integrating technology into your
curriculum on this site.
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"Teaching
Social Studies with the Internet" : Covers lesson planning, using
primary sources, virtual field trips, and publishing student work.
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American Memory
Collections :
"...a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history
and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million
digital items from more than 100 historical collections."
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Blue Web'n : "...a
searchable database of over 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites
categorized by subject area, audience, and type."
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Filamentality
: "...a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through
picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and
turning Web resources into learning activities."
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Teachervision.com
: This site, from Learning Network, provides printable graphic
organizers for teachers and students.
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WISE
: The Web-based Inquiry Science Environment where "students examine
real-world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies."
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Trackstar
: "...helps instructors organize and annotate web sites (URLs) for use
in lessons."
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Kathy Schrock's Guide
for Educators: "...a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing
curriculum and professional growth." Frequently updated.
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TourMaker
: Like a field trip on the Web, complete with commentary. You gotta
check this site out!
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Fast 'n' Easy
Websites from SchoolBlog : Create--or have your students
create--their own websites using new SchoolBlog "open-source"
technology. No HTML, no FTP, just type and submit. And it's FREE (for
now).
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"Internet
resources for K-8 students: Update 2000" by Blyth Bennett. A
compendium of fine sites across all subject areas including math,
literature, science, health, and more.
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AskERIC
Lesson Plans : "Contains more than 1,000 lesson plans...written and
submitted to AskERIC by teachers all over the United States." Browsable
by subject.
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The Busy Teacher
: No-nonsense design is broken down by subject areas that in turn
provide valuable links. Quick and easy to search.
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Tapped In :
"...the online workplace of an international community of education
professionals, K-12 teachers and librarians, professional development
staff," and others.
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The
Electronic Classroom : "Ideas and information about applying
technology in literacy instruction."
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MyGradebook.com
"...allows teachers to log in and work on their gradebook at any time
from any computer connected to the Internet. When you assign passwords
to students and parents, they can log in to view their own grading and
attendance summaries."
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"Web design that
won't get you into trouble" by Shirley Duglin. From Computers
in Libraries . This article is a very good primer on what to keep
in mind when designing websites/portals. Provides a valuable list of
related links.
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California
Department of Education : Keep up with content standards, testing,
and where the state is headed education-wise.
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SCORE:
The Schools of California Online Resources for Education supports
content standards and curriculum frameworks while promoting information
literacy. Content areas include History/Social Science, Language Arts,
Mathematics, and Science.
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FAST
FACTS : Almanacs, factbooks, statistical reports and related
reference tools. An amazing compendium of useful websites. Go here
first if you need info quickly on just about any factual question or
term.
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