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LESSON PLANS
BUSINESS LESSONS: This site also has ideas for bulletin boards and links to other sites with business lesson plans.
LESSON PLANS THAT USE CLARISWORKS
SD LESSON PLANS: San Diego School System's resource pages.
AT & T: This is AT&T Best Education Sites that are organized by grade level and subject areas.
KATHY SCHROCK'S GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY'S RESOURCES
PROJECTS FOR INTEGRATING THE INTERNET
LESSON PLANS FOR CONNECTING STUDENTS
ON-LINE JOURNALS
FROM NOW ON: Articles on educational issues and lesson plans.
ON LINE MAGAZINE FOR KIDS BY KIDS
MIDDLE SCHOOL WEB JOURNAL FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
KID SAFE SITES
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
BOBBY 3.1 Web Accessibility Testing
Resources For Accessibility (2)
LANGUAGE TRANSLATORS
TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
NASA Page on Educational Technology--Grade A site on educational technology, including resources.
TEN TOP WEB SITES: This is a list of the ten best web sites for educational technology.
HELPCENTERS: Online support center with tutorials, Q & A written for users not technicians.
NICENET: Great way to get your class on the Internet.
HYPERSTUDIO: You can get free preview copies and learn more about HyperStudio.
CHAT ROOMS: This allows you to join chatrooms all over the world and in any language.
EPALS: This site connects teachers to classes all over the world. You can also set up a private chat room at this site.
NETSCAPE COMPOSER NEW USERS PAGES
http://www.cudenver.edu/public/education/k12/firnstuff/firn14.html Introduction to wordprocessing, ftp, and other computer functions.
TUTORIALS
Free Skills.com -- The ultimate tutorial on every aspect of computing. Downloadable lessons and study guides.
POWERPOINT- This tutorial is very simple and gives step by step instructions. You could use this with younger children.
Simple Steps for Making a Class Web Page
Microsoft Works Tutorial: A Teacher Guide
Microsoft Works Assignments for Students (Your Students)
CLIPART, SOUND, AND WEB DESIGN
WEB DESIGN 4- NETSCAPE COMPOSER
DESIGNER'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET
COPYRIGHT ISSUES
Copyright in an Electronic Environment DPI site on copyright issues.
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
REFERENCE
http://www.psychwww.com/ APA Guidelines: APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet
http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html Electronic reference formats recommended by APA
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/hdlpdu/cite.html Documenting digitized materials.
PROJECTS FOR THE CLASSROOM
GLOBAL SCHOOLHOUSE PROJECTS: This is the Global Schoolhouse Projects such as Letters to Santa, Geogame, and the International Schools CyberFair.
TELUS LEARNING CONNECTION: Projects you can work on with your students.
ACTIVE VOLCANOES
NEWSPAPER: Create your own classroom newspaper.
http://www.kidlink.org/index.html Kid-link Homepage
http://www.classroom.com/default.asp Classroom Connect
http://www.les.appstate.edu/courses/telecom/
Student projects in Telecommunications
http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Schools/cross.html
Global projects in telecommunications
http://www.epals.com/home.html
Links to classrooms worldwide interested in communication exchanges
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/facstaff/chip/taxonomy/#Taxonomies
Excellent discussion of classifications of computer applications in learning
http://www.teachweb.net/dir/Foreign_Language/ESL/
ESL teacher resources on the web. Try teaching with the web as well as lesson plans.
http://citt.marin.cc.ca.us/using.html Using computers in instruction
ttp://freetranslations.com Translates English to Spanish
E-MAIL PROJECTS
POSTCARDS: This is a daily postcard site where a former history teacher and her photographer husband have postcards from America. There is also a lesson plan on how to teach this site to students.
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/ This is a free service for teachers to e-mail classrooms in other countries.
http://www.epals.com/ This is also an e-mail exchange where you can e-mail classrooms from other countries.
http://www.telementor.org/ e-mail mentoring programs.
http://www.travlang.com/ Information on foreign countries.
TEACHER ISSUES
INFORMATION FOR NC TEACHERS: This site is operated by teachers here in NC.
LEARN NC: Information and issues that concern NC.
Books to Read
Glasser, William. The Quality School, 1998.
Links: http://www.wglasserinst.com/
Goleman, Daniel P. Working With Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books, 1998. Pp.352,
Aukstakalnis, Steve and Blatner, David. The Art and Science of Virtual Reality: Silicon Mirage. Peachpit Press, 1992. Pp. 317.
Kurzweil, Ray. The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed human Intelligence. Viking Press, 1998. Pp. 352.
Links: www.kurzweiltech.com
Gossen, Dianne and Anderson, Judy. Creating the Conditions.New View, PO Box 3021, Chapel Hill, NC, 27515-3021. 1995. Pp. 263.
Blur : The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy
by Stanley M. Davis, et al. Paperback (April 1999)Future Perfect by Stanley M. Davis, Stan Davis
Unleashing the Killer App : Digital Strategies for Market Dominance
by Larry Downes, Chunka Mui, Nicholas NegroponteRobot : Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
by Hans P. MoravecBeyond Humanity : Cyberevolution and Future Minds
by Gregory S. Paul, Earl CoxWhen Things Start to Think
by Neil A. Gershenfeld
OTHER
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN EDUCATION SITE: Variety of resources for students and teachers.
TEASERS: This site has good brain teasers to use with your classes.
ENCYCLOPEDIA: Good to use to show students that the Internet is a resource and how to use it for research.
TRAILBLAZER: A good site for 4th grade teachers because the information goes with the NC 4th grade curriculum.
PBS: The PBS kid site.
SCHOLASTIC: You have a 3 month trial usage with this site and then you have to pay a subscription fee to continue use.
WISHBONE: Goes along with the popular TV show on PBS.
AWARDS: This site has a variety of pins you can give your students as rewards.
10 BIG IDEAS: This site has activities, lessons, good sites for kids, and professional information.
http://207.136.90.76/dictionary: Dictionary of Computer terms
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.cgi: Technology terms
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/network/ Learn about networks, etc.
TEACHER SEARCH ENGINES
WEBRESOURCES: This is a site that was created by a graduate student at ASU that has a wide variety of information on all subject levels.
MAMMA.COM: This is the mother of all search engines.
SNAP.COM: This is useful for local information.
YAHOOLIGANS: A good way to teach your students how to search on the web. A drawback is that it limits your searches.
GEOGRAPHY SITES
EDUCATION WORLD: This site has a geography game and takes you to other exciting sites.
SOCIAL STUDIES SITES
HOLOCAUST: This site is a teacher's guide for studying the Holocaust.
STAMPVOTE: You can find information about major events of particular decades on this site.
NC INFORMATION: Good for 4th and 8th grade teachers in NC.
ELECTRONIC FIELD TRIPS: This site has unit plans and activities for Social Studies.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SCAVENGER HUNT
MATH
FUN BRAIN: This site had math games for the classroom. Your students can play against the computer and be scored.
A PLUS MATH: This site has math games and flash cards.
SWARTHMORE: This site has math problems, workshops, teacher 2 teacher, and web units.
http://millbrad.homestead.com/millbradindex.html- a classroom math site.
NUTRITION AND HEALTH
DOLE: This site has information about healthy eating habits.
READING AND WRITING
SCIENCE
WEATHER: The Weather Channel page.
EARTHSKY: You can find out information and pictures about the constellations for every night of the year.
VEARTHQUAKE: This is a good site for scientific research.
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THE ARTS
MUSIC: This site has information about the importance of music in the classroom.
SCREAM: This site is for trumpet players.
INTEGRATION SITES
WEATHER: This is a site from a news station meteorologist about the different types of weather.
THEME UNITS: This site has theme units on a variety of subjects.
AWESOME LIBRARY: Multidisciplinary lessons
AMERICAN DREAM:This is a great project for older students that uses history, social studies, and writing to look at how the American Dream has changed over the decades. The site has teacher and students sections that are helpful to each.
STORIES: This site is for younger children all over the world. You can read the stories of other children or your students can submit their own stories. You can also submit art and music to this site.There are many topics that you can choose from to read about or add information.
CYBER GUIDES: CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one online computer. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards.
OCEANS:This extensive Web resource consists of Web-based learning activities that integrate language arts with oceanography. Each activity is based on one of seven books about the ocean and are written to be adaptable. Includes writing activities, games and puzzles, art ideas, Web resources, and a section for teachers.
BLUE WEB'N: This is a great search engine that has lessons, projects, tutorials and ideas on any subject you can think of and at any grade level.
ESSENTIAL INTERNET RESOURCES: This site contains a comple list of URLs which deal with every aspect of computer technology.
http://www1.appstate.edu/~churchjw/ - a local in integration consulting.
Secondary School Educators Current topics and resources of interest to 7-12 teachers and administrators.
WHERE TO PURCHASE COMPUTERS
SONY:Information on products and cost for a variety of equipment.
VIDEO CAPTURE SITES
SHOPLET: Description of video capture cards and the costs.
NCSU: This is a NC State site that has information on what you need and how to capture video. There is also information about adding images to presentations.
LIBRARY: Capturing video clip information with Adobe Premiere 4.0.
DIGITAL VIDEO CAPTURE: This site deals with digital video capture.
DIGITAL CAMERA SITES
ZDnet: Reviews, descriptions, and prices for digital cameras. Gives you tips on what camera to buy and pointers on how to take a good picture with a digital camera.
COMPUTERSHOPPER: This is a guide to help you pick out the right digital camera.
STEVE'S DIGICAMS: You can find information about digital cameras and scanners here.
FTP AND TELNET SITES
FTP GUIDE: Start with this site to learn more about FTP. Look at the sections about a typical login session and commands.
PROGRAMS: This site has FTP programs you can download.
CUTE FTP: Information on Cute FTP
FTP QUESTIONS: Frequently asked questions about FTP.
FTP SEARCH: FTP search page
TELNET INFORMATION: Information about Telnet
TELNET: How to get started with Telnet.
TELNET SOFTWARE: This site has Telnet software.
TELNET SITES: Telnet sites that are on the Internet.
LISTSERVS
LISTSERVS: Explore the three sections at this site.
COMPUTER TERMS
STUDENT PROJECTS