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Online Resources
 A Lifetime of Color
A Lifetime of Color has activities for all aspects of creating art. Various topics
include: Create Art, Study Art, Play Art Games, and Teach Art.
Interactive student activities explain the elements and principles of Art
in fun ways that the students will be sure to remember. This site would be useful for students studying any elements of art,
design, or drafting, and is useful background resource for reviewing
those teaching concepts we sometimes don't get around to covering in Art
class. A Lifetime of Color is hosted by Sanford and is suitable for students
in grades K-12.
Armadillo's K-12 WWW Resources
Armadillo contains resources covering: Networking Projects,
Educational Databases and Lesson Plans, and
Learning and Instruction. The site also lists great Internet resources for each of the major curriculum areas.
Classroom Connect
Classroom Connect extends a rich assortment of good information to support the Internet-ready teacher and school. One excellent list of resources listed by school subjects and topics is GRA+DES.
Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT)
Columbia University has gathered extensive and comprehensive resources to guide thinking about learning technologies. There are dozens of excellent essays and articles at this site along with project reports (LiveText, American History Archive, Discovery Web, Learning Arts, Advanced Media in Education Project, ILTweb, Hot Spots, ILTweb Guides to Internet Resources, Copyright Guide, WEBreview.) The visitor will find breakthrough thinking at Readings: Technology and School Reform. In addition, explore Resources and Curricula Topics.
MCREL
The Mid Continent Regional Educational Laboratory offers Technology Connections, which provide some of the best online resources available to help educators, administrators, and parents answer common questions and solve problems related to the implementation and use of technology in education.
NCREL
The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory offers excellent planning resources such as Learning Through Technology: A Planning and Implementation Guide a document which "helps educators and community members develop a comprehensive learning and technology plan. It's divided into six sections (1) Planning to Plan (2) Building a Knowledge Base (3) Establishing General Directions (4) Implementation Priorities and Strategies (5) Evaluation (6) Revising for Improvement. Also available at this site is the full document Plugging In:Choosing and Using Educational Technology which provides a process which helps a school to judge the degree to which "Engaged Learning" has been implemented throughout the school along with the support of advanced technologies.
NWREL
The North West Regional Educational Laboratory provides substantial resources to support program assessment and school improvement. The Technology Center offers support for strategic planning, distance learning and resources from Northwest Educational Technology Consortium (NETC)
Reinventing Schools: The Technology is Now
This publication launched by the National Academy of Science offers provocative ideas about the potential of new technologies to transform learning in schools, available for downloading as an Adobe Acrobat file. Topics include:
-- The Nintendo Generation: Information technologies permeate the lives of school children.
-- The Technological Juggernaut: Homes are where the hardware is.
-- Networking K-12 Education: When schools get wired, the educational possibilities are endless.
-- A New Model for Education: An information driven world calls for a new way of teaching students.
-- Systemic Reform: leadership + standards + technology = reform
-- Investing in Teachers: Tomorrow's teachers are needed today.
-- Ensuring Equity: Information technologies can most help those who most need help.
-- Opportunity to Change: New business opportunities could unleash a powerful entrepreneurial force in education.
-- Learning about Learning: Cognitive research has turned traditional teaching methods on their heads.
TERC - The Regional Alliance Hub
TERC houses articles, curriculum, and project reports organized by key topics. One of the best resources is a guide Winding Your Way Through the World Wide Web.
U.S. Department of Education
The Department describes successful programs, and points to excellent resources and reports research findings.
WEB66
Web66 has been at the forefront of school Web site development since the advent of graphical Internet browsers and offers a global listing of all schools which have Web sites, and many exciting examples of student research and publishing, the strategies for which are outlined in Mustang: A Web Cruising Vehicle. In addition to these curriculum related resources, Web66 offers a great deal of support regarding the more technical side of launching a Web site and server for those who wish to delve into such matters.
New Chalk
Using chalk -- the teacher’s tool -- as a
metaphor, New Chalk, a biweekly electronic newsletter published by the University
of North Carolina, explores uses and applications of these new networked instructional
technologies. Editions are brief and focus on real, practical examples of how instructors
use new technologies in their teaching. Using a common topic for each issue, editors
review real, practical examples of how instructors use the new technology in their
teaching. Back issues are easily accessible at the web site.
Asynchronous Learning Network
The Web of Asynchronous Learning Networks is the home
of JALN, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, and ALN Magazine.
The content of both of these online, full text journals focuses on pedagogical and design
issues. Many of the articles include the results of research projects. Documents can be
viewed or printed in HTML or Acrobat formats. Although the web site is developed and
maintained by the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, the articles cover a
wide spectrum of institutional settings and content areas.
PBS Net Learning
This web site was created in conjunction with a recent
PBS documentary called net.LEARNING. While we haven’t had an opportunity to
see this documentary, we included this web site because of the resources that it makes
available. The site is very well designed and user friendly, including areas labeled
"The Student’s Lounge," "Professor’s Office,"
"Laboratory" and "Library." Articles represent a variety of points of
view. A visit to the "Statistics Department" clearly shows the rapid spread of
web-based education and training. A "Seminar Room" is available for online
discussion of the issues.
Teaching and Learning with Technology
Calgary Regional Consortium
Various grade activities K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 all contain lessons devleoped to integrate other subjects
with Info Tech. Each of the lessons contain the following headings: Setting the Stage, Student Tasks and Assisgnments, Resources, and Assesment Rubrics. This site would be useful for any teacher who wants ideas on integrating technology into other subject areas. The assements show a great deal of thought and experience in teaching these various topics.
Virtual Activist Training Course
This site from NetAction provides a comprehensive introduction to using the Internet for organizing, communicating, and expanding missions. The Internet makes it possible for activists to expand their networks by identifying and contacting activists in other communities who have
similar interests and concerns. By joining the appropriate discussion lists and news groups, activists can identify and communicate with activists in other
communities who are working on similar issues. By sharing information, strategies, and/or advice, they are able to enhance the
effectiveness of their efforts, and benefit from the additional networking opportunities provided by the Internet.
Multiple Intelligences
This web site focuses on multipe intelligences, and is housed at the University of New Orleans. It is very useful in the classroom because teachers need to realize that all students learn
differently. This site has many resources an links about multiple intelligences and how to implement them into your teaching.
Multiculturalism and Education
This site, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Edudation at the University of Toronto deals with multiculturalism in the curriculum. It also
focuses on computers in the curriculum. It reviews documents regarding
curriculum and reviews web sites that are suitable for education purposes.
This is a resource for teachers, students and librarians. It offers students
links on multiple perspectives, multicultural holidays and information on
different countries.
Teacher's Friend
This site is excelelnt for pre-K - 6th grade. It is designed for
teachers and parents to use. You can get a free catalog! This colorful site
contains materials for
younger students. It is full of art work and activities to motivate and
challenge students.
Teaching Resource Center
This is a great site for students and teachers full of resource
material. This site offers many links for research and educational material.
It has everything you can think of. It is a good resource for lesson plans,
research, links, full text and materials. It is especially helpful for
researching educational topics. Use it for class papers, projects, and your
master's degree!
Hands-On Activities for Training
This site includes excellent hands-on activities from a series of 'train the internet trainer' sessions to public librarians in the Upper Hudson Library System (New York). The curriculum for the sessions is available and has some exercises.
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Kim Alexander
George Kelso
Louise Waterson
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