The Internet Educator's Resources Page
Summer Fun for Educators:
Get Recharged and Then Get On the Web- 1998 NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for K-12 School Teachers
- The National Endowment for the Humanities each year offers teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Summer Institutes. All teachers selected to participate in a seminar or institute will be awarded a stipend of $2,350, $2,800, $3,250, or $3,700 (depending on the length of the seminar or institute) to cover travel costs, books and other research expenses, and living expenses.
General Resources for Educators:
Increasing Your Power Electronically- AskERIC Site
- The pioneering Web site that sets the standard for K-12 educational Internet resources. Has many full-text documents which summarize useful research, plus a collection of lesson plans, and archives of discussion groups (i.e., LM_NET, K12ADMIN, EdNet.)
- Search for ERIC Digests
- ERIC Digests are short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education, designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information. The full-text ERIC Digest database contains more than 1,713.
- ERIC Clearinghouses
- Links to the network of ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centers), which offer a wide variety of information for educators. Organized according to teaching specializations and interests of educators.
- Teacher's Guide to the U.S. Department of Education
- An easy to use Web document that provides a nice arrangement of links to major areas of the U.S. Department of Education. Useful if you are unable to find what you want through their DOE Home Page (immediately below).
- U.S. Dept. of Education
- The official Home Page of the U.S. Department of Education. Lots of links to educational documents, program information, research and education information.
- The Knowledge Network Explorer
- Designed for educators and others who would like to know more about issues affecting the schools and libraries in California. Includes information on Pacific Bell's Education First Initiative that helps schools get connected to the Internet, as well as newsletters, curriculum ideas and support, and more.
- The Big Six Skills for Information Problem Solving
- Now that you have experienced how vast amounts of information are available to you through the Internet and other electronic library resources, you probably feel a need for a system to help students make use of the information overload. Here is the best available: The Big Six Skills, created by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, a librarian-teacher team!
- Guides To Help You Use the Internet
- The EPA, Region 2 Library has put together an extremely helpful set of guides on using the Internet/Web. Their "Top Ten Basic/Advanced Internet Search Tips" is especially helpful!
- Argus Internet Guides Clearinghouse
- The Internet is as much about collaboration and cooperation as anything else. Individuals and organizations make their information resources available, and Guide authors search for, describe, evaluate, repackage, and include them in their guides. The Clearinghouse does much the same thing for the guides--they find, describe, evaluate, and make available these guides via a central location.
- What's What on the Web
- A site dedicated to helping people find new and useful Internet resources. Lists links to a number of "What's New"-type services which evaluate and/or describe new sites.
- Criteria for Evaluation of Internet Information Resources
- Have you wondered how to tell if a certain resource on the World Wide
Web is any good as an informational resource? Web Pages are like books
and magazines, in that they need to be evaluated when being used in an
assignment. These criteria will guide you in your evaluation.
Electronic Mail For Educators
- E-mail Concept
- Basic concepts of e-mail use, the whats, whys and wherefores. A nice explanation of this powerful new tool at our disposal.
- Chapter 7: Electronic mail, telex, and fax
- A chapter in "The Online World" by Internet educator, Odd de Presno, which explains e-mail and other electronic communications tools. Very informative for the new and experienced user, with links to other helpful e-mail resources and services.
- A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
- A public domain guide to using e-mail, by Kaitlin Duck Sherwood.
Includes sections on "Why Is E-mail Different," Page Layout," and much more.
Assistance for Using E-mail Software
- Eudora Tutorial
- Eudora is a very popular and very user-friendly way to read your e-mail. Here you'll find a few basic instructions for starting and using Eudora.
- Eudora Light
- Eudora Light is the freeware version of the excellent e-mail software, Eudora. You can download (for free) both Macintosh and Windows versions from this location, operated by the creators of Eudora, Qualcomm.
- Pine Information Center
- "Pine (a Program for Internet News & Email) is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was designed specifically with novice computer users in mind, but it can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well." This page is made available by the folks who created one of the most popular and user friendly e-mail software used on the Internet.
- The Listserv Users' Guide
- From the folks who brought us the Listserv software to facilitate
Internet discussions via e-mail, here is a helpful guide for users (i.e.,
members of discussion groups.)
The Language of the Internet and Discussion Groups
Internet users have created a specialized language which is used to communicate and describe their new activities and resources. This new "language" is constantly evolving, and is not to be feared. It should be embraced as part of the process of mastering the use of the Internet. Newcomers who learn the language of the Net, will find it to be useful, humorous, and enlightening.
- Glossary of Internet Terms
- Made available by the Arizona State University Library.
- HTML for Dummies: Glossary
- Although the book is about hypertext markup language, its online site has a nice glossary of Internet terms.
- The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette
- The Internet has its own ways of doing things. Arlene Rinaldi has gathered together some basic information about how to go about things, and how to ne a good Net Citizen in the process! Especially useful are sections on Electronic Communications, Discussion Groups, and of course, the Interduction.
- NETiquette-- Networking Etiquette
- From Australia comes a comprehensive set of guidelines, lore, and
explanations for why it is advisable to follow a particualar code of
conduct in the electronic community called The Internet! An excellent
resource.
Using E-mail to Contact Other Educators
- AskERIC Discussion Group Archives
- A collection of the latest postings to popular education discussion groups such as K12ADMIN, LM_NET, KIDSPHERE, and Ednet.
- T I L E . N E T / L I S T S E R V
- This WWW site is a reference to all the LISTSERV discussion groups on the Internet. The data comes from Walter Shelby Group's InfoMagnet, a Windows program for finding, searching and participating in LISTSERV discussion groups. The data originally came from ftp.listserv.net, from files about all the publicly available discussion groups running LISTSERV.
- Search The List of Lists
- This form allows you to search one of the largest directories of special interest group e-mail lists (also known as listservs) available on the Internet.
- Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
- Also known as "The Kovacs List", contains descriptions of electronic conferences on topics of interest to scholars and professionals. Includes informative listings and descriptions of the groups, accessible through a search engine, as well as subject and alphabetical listings. (Note: See K-12 Education subject grouping.)
- Listserv Discussion Groups
- A listing of Internet discussion groups for educators. Includes brief descriptions, along with addresses for subscriptions to the groups. Maintained by Andy Carvin at the EdWeb Home Room, through the support of The Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists
- Another helpful place to find Internet discussion groups. Organized alphabetically, by both Names of the groups, and the Subjects they discuss.
- Liszt: Search for Discussion Groups
- Yet another helpful place to find Internet discussion
groups. Organized alphabetically, by both Names of the groups, and the
Subjects they discuss.
Lesson Plans On The Internet
- Tales from the Electronic Frontier
- Online version of the book: Tales from the Electronic Frontier. "Ten teachers recount actual experiences using the Internet in K-12 science and mathematics education. The stories illustrate how this technology can be used in different contexts and for different purposes, stimulating analysis and reflection about how the Internet can--and cannot--support teaching and learning."
- The AskERIC Lesson Plans Page
- AskERIC, at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, maintains a collection of lesson plans and curriculum units from a wide variety of sources, covering a range of subjects and grade levels.
- OnlineEducator
- A very nice collection of lesson plans using the Internet in a variety of settings and subject areas.
- Teacher's Edition Online
- An online magazine for teachers, including nice sections with lesson plans, tips and ideas.
- The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
- The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is designed to help educators improve teaching and learning in science and mathematics education. Check out the Resource Finder to find instructional materials for K-12 math and science, or follow hundreds of links to Internet sites for math and science education.
- Access Excellence Activities Exchange
- Collection of links to curriculum activities, lessons, and ideas. Provided by Genentech, many of these excellent units were developed by their teacher-fellows.
- NCSA SuperQuest for Teachers
- A 3-week modeling workshop and year-long support program for high school science and mathematics teachers. During the final week of the workshop, the teachers spent most of their time working on collaborative modeling projects. The intention was not only to put new skills to use, but also to share ideas about different classroom uses of modeling with the other workshop participants and the world at large.
- California State, and California Regional Telementor Curricular Projects
- These curricular projects, designed by California Technology Project
Telementors, use cooperative and/or collaborative learning, authentic
and/or portfolio assessment, sheltered techniques, critical thinking, and
student centered learning with Internet resources as part of the learning
experience.
School and Classroom Projects Using the Internet
- Global SchoolNet Foundation
- Since 1985 Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) has been a leader in the instructional applications of telecommunications, a major contributor to the philosophy, design, culture, and content of educational networking on the Internet and in the classroom. GSN has had an incredible impact on networking in the K12 community.
- KIDLINK Global Grassroots Dialog
- This is a grassroots, email-based project aiming at getting as many children in the age group 10 -15 as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog. KIDLINK organizes a series of 24-hour-a-day discussions between children, between adult coordinators, teachers, parents, and other interested persons. The topics are many. Think of it as a series of 24-hour-per-day conferences based on email.
- IECC-Classroom Connections
- This is a set of e-mail discussion groups with specific related purposes. The IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) mailing lists are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.
- The CHATBACK Trust
- CHATBACK was set up to provide an email facility for schools in the
UK and abroad. Most are special schools, and cater for children who have
some mental or physical difficulty with communicating. The project
encourages young people to correspond with each other for social
interaction. It has links with children in Argentina, Australia, Canada,
Estonia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, USA, and even a
special school in Novosibirsk in Siberia.
Problems and Policies Providing Internet Access At School
- Acceptable Use Policies: Rice University
- A collection of links to Acceptable Use Policies and articles on the subject, selected from a wide range of resources (i.e., magazine and journal articles, school and district policies.) Note actual policies are in the first section: "Acceptable and Unacceptable Use of Net Resources from Armadillo"
- The Internet Advocate
- This is a very well-organized resource for school librarians and educators wanting to provide high quality access to the Internet for their students. Visit this helpful page to see some excellent ideas and plans!
- Access to the Internet in School Libraries
- Overview of the issues surrounding Internet access through schools and school libraries, with links to key articles, followed by links to acceptable use policies at a number of schools.
- A Dozen Reasons Why Schools Should Avoid Filtering
- Informative list of considerations regarding the blocking of Internet sites, written by one of America's leading administrators using the World Wide Web. From Jamieson Mackenzie's online magazine, From Now On.
- Ballad of an EMail Terrorist (c)
- What do you do when your fourth grade
student receives an obscene email message? This lengthy message describes
a recent real problem and how Al Rogers, one of the pioneering Internet
educators, managed it.
Writing Prompts Using the Internet
The following links connect to a lot of possibilities to stimulate writing by students. Visit these pages with the idea in mind to find ideas, quotations, timeless information tidbits, and personal stimulation which will help you help your students get motivated to write regularly in your class.
- Today In History and the Today In History Archives
- From the U.S. Library of Congress, each day the Library of Congress offers interesting information, images, sounds-- a presentation of historic facts highlighted by items from the American Memory: Historical Collections of the National Digital Library, full-text collections of primary resources (books, pamphlets,photographs, music, films, and more!).
- Today In History
- Every day a huge list of birth and death dates, events, and milestones in history are posted to this site. Check it out for an interesting source of trivia quiz or energizer activities for your students.
- CNN Newsroom and Study Guide
- Every morning at 12:45 a.m. CNN broadcasts a 15 minute commercial-free TV news program designed especially for schools. They create a free, four page study guide to aid the teacher in use of each broadcast. It is available on the Web, or you can have it delivered to your e-mailbox. For the e-mail version, send this message: subscribe cnn-newsroom Your Name to: Majordomo@tenet.edu
- On This Day....
- Gives names of famous people (mostly movies-related) who were born and died on the day of your choice. Allows you to also lank to and search their Movie Database for inforamtion about movies, actors, directors, etc. This service is managed by the Internet Movie Database folks.
- Literary Calendar
- Click on a day of the month of this calendar, and find out about an important literary event that occurred on that day in history.
- News Grief
- Take the concept of a daily news brief, adding plenty of satire, sarcasm and cynicism and you have the ingredients for giving grief back to the news with their own unique "Skewpoint." News Grief is the first comprehensive daily satirical feature in the cyberworld.
- TIME News Service Daily
- The Top Daily News Stories From TIME Magazine. You can check in here daily, and find summaries of the top, hot news stories, as well as links to related stories from TIME Magazine.
- San Francisco Examiner
- The Electronic Examiner also has daily top news stories and features from the San Francisco Examiner, like the Bee above! Search its full-text archives of past issues as well.
- The Quotations Home Page
- "The collections presented here contain thousands of quotations, old and new, familiar and obscure, humorous and pompous, ironic and maybe even a little profound. This site is intended as a place for enjoyment, enlightenment, exploration and general reference. While, in general, the material on the site is very accurate, serious folks who want citation details accurate to three decimal places may want to look elsewhere."
- The Quotations Page
- Lots of quotations are available here, including the Quote of the Day. Each day a quotation is selected and made available by the click of your mouse. If you want more quotes, try the Random Quotations Page, which chooses new quotes every time you load it.
- Thought for the Day
- Available via e-mail only: Dan Galvin offers an e-mail service which delivers a "thoughtful" quotation to your mailbox each day. To subscribe, send this message: subscribe TFTD-L to: LISTSERV@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU
- Motiv8
- Here is a page that provides only quotations that are motivational and uplifting. It even has a link that you can select which keeps changing to a different quotation every few minutes.
- Cool Word of the Day
- Each day a new word and its definition are made available online at this site. The definition itself contains links to its wording, so if you can't understand a word in the definition, just click on it to see its definition.
- Trivia Questions for The Eighties
- A fun collection of trivia questions about The Eighties decade.
- Return to Ramon Garza's Web Links Page..
