GENERAL RESOURCES
COMMUNITY LEARNING NETWORK
http://www.cln.org
A site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you'll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search.
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what the WikiMedia Foundation is doing.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent organization of some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia , one of the 100 most visited websites in the world. Other online projects include Wiktionary , a multilingual dictionary; Wikibooks , a collection of free content textbooks; Wikiquote, a repository of famous quotes; Wikinews, a free news source; Wikisource, a repository for primary source material; and Wikimedia Commons, a repository for images and sound data. This makes it a good starting point for many projects.
NEW YORK TIMES LEARNING NETWORK
http://nytimes.com/learning/index.html
Connections for students, parents, and teachers. Use the Lesson Plan Search for tons of great arts related lesson plans. One of the few educational sites that has learning units on the subject of "Art as a Reflection of Society."
RUBISTAR
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
QUIZ STAR
http://quizstar.4teachers.org
QuizStar is a FREE web-based program. With this web-based utility, you will be able to create a custom quiz that others can take online. If you have a lesson plan centered around internet websites, or if you want students to be able to do take-home assignments over the internet, then QuizStar is for you. With Quiz Star you can...
- Create quizzes for your students to use for review
- Include Multiple Choice, True/False, and Short Answer questions
- Group Your students by Class Name (e.g. 3rd Grade Music)
- Activate and deactivate quizzes so they are available to students only on certain dates.
SURFING THE NET WITH KIDS
http://www.surfnetkids.com/
Columnist Barbara Feldman's site containing what's wonderful and educational on the Web for kids. Includes: Educational website reviews, Directory of kid site reviews, Directory of kids games, related blogs.
4 TEACHERS
http://4teachers.org
The online space for teachers integrating technology in the classroom.
HPR-TEC
http://www.hprtec.org
A cornucopia of online tools for educators including Assign-A-Day, NoteStar, Problem Based Learning Checklists and more, plus links to all the stuff at 4teachers.org and 4kids.org. "The HPR*TEC mission is to help teachers and other educators create, share, or find solutions to problems they encounter when integrating technology into education. Use our free site to network with other teachers, learners, and planners through a unique system supporting collaboration and resource sharing."
PUZZLEMAKER
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com
Research in accelerated learning has shown that using puzzles and games can actually increase retention and decrease learning time. Some of the puzzles you can make at this site are great aids to learning a new terminology, vocabulary, definitions, etc. Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists -- all online. (Recommended by GearUp teacher Arlene Iaquinto, Washington Irving Middle School, Clarksburg.)
THE WEBQUEST PAGE
http://webquest.org
Webquests are divided by Top, Middling and New. (Be sure to check out the NEW stuff. Some of it is pretty slick!)
This site is hosted by the Educational Technology Department at San Diego State University. It is updated continuously by Bernie Dodge, the man who invented WebQuests. There are tons of WebQuest training materials for teachers here. You'll also find examples broken down by subject and grade level.
ARTSEDGE
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org
ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts.
MARCO POLO
http://marcopolo.k12.wv.us
The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.
THE SOLUTION SITE
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/index.shtml
A Real Solution For Classroom Teachers
The Solution Site contains K-12 lesson plans that offer teachers from all subject areas a variety of opportunities to use thematic units and student-centered learning activities in the classroom.
The units and lessons contained within this site encourage problem solving and group collaboration to build higher level thinking skills while devising meaningful solutions.
EDUCATION WORLD: THE EDUCATOR'S BEST FRIEND
http://www.educationworld.com
Lesson plans, professional development, practical classroom ideas, website reviews, and so MUCH more. An incredible site for teachers of all disciplines and all grade levels.
ARTS WORK: The Herberger Center for Children and the Arts
http://artswork.asu.edu/site_map.htm
A treasure trove of arts education resources from Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University. Includes lesson plans for dance, theatre, music, visual arts and the integration of all four.
FROM NOW ON: The Educational Technology Journal
http://www.fno.org
Free online magazine. Full of terrific information and ideas!
Edited by Jamie McKenzie who, prior to devoting himself to full time speaking and writing in 1997, was the Director of Libraries, Media and Technology for the Bellingham (WA) Public Schools - a district of 18 schools and 10,000 students fully networked with 2000 pcs all tied to the Internet by 1994-95. He has now moved on to support technology and information literacy efforts in schools across North America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
ED WEB
http://www.ibiblio.org/edweb/resource.cntnts.html
EdWeb Exploring Technology and School Reform by Andy Carvin
"An intelligent, detailed, informed and practical guide, both to education related issues concerning the Internet, and to educational resources on the World Wide Web...." —Harvard Educational Review
THINK QUEST INTERNET CHALLENGE LIBRARY
http://www.thinkquest.org
You won't believe the great stuff you'll find here! "The library contains unique educational web sites that have been created through ThinkQuest competitions and programs. Built by kids for kids
to use and learn. It is also a great place to get ideas for your own project in one of our many programs around the world." See how other teachers and students have used ThinkQuest Programs as a highly motivating opportunity to work collaboratively in teams to learn as they create web based learning materials and teach others.
PREPARING TOMORROW'S TEACHERS TO USE TECHNOLOGY (PT3)
http://www.pt3.org
"The Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) program addresses a growing challenge in modern education: nearly all elementary and secondary schools are now "wired" to the Internet, but most teachers still feel uncomfortable using technology in their teaching. Since 1999, PT3 has awarded over 400 grants to education consortia to help address this challenge. Profound changes in the way teachers are taught are necessary to meet the demand for teachers prepared to educate 21st century learners."
See how they can help you in the present.
"Notably, the academic computing officers ranked education faculty as being slightly less prepared than their colleagues in the science, business, engineering, mathematics and occupational programs, but they were judged to be better prepared than their colleagues in the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences" —Source: Campus Computing Project's National Survey of Computing and Information Technology in American Higher Education .
Ideas from other arts teachers...
http://teachers.net/mentors/
RSS: A Learning Technology
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2004/may2004/0405_trends.htm
This article is first in a quarterly series of articles that will discuss learning technology trends in the distance or spotlight technology trends and examine their applicability to learning.
TEACHING AND LEARNING ON THE WEB
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl
See over 865 examples of how the web is being used as a medium for learning
WEST VIRGINIA DEPT. OF EDUCATION - OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY
http://access.k12.wv.us
An enormous amount of information and tools to draw from.
To go directly to Internet Resources menu: http://access.k12.wv.us/manual/index.htm .
For Curriculum Resources by Subject go to http://access.k12.wv.us/manual/urlindex.htm
OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT LINKS
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Education
Open Source links for Arts Education.
(About the DMOZ Open Directory Project.)