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Blue
Web'n
is an excellent beginning place for thinking about the different educational
uses of the internet. It is based on a useful typology
of web-based tutorials, activities, projects, lesson plans, hotlists,
resources, and references and tools; see its quick
definition page for an elaboration of these distinctions.
A more elaborate elaboration and discussion may be found in Tom March's
"Sorting
Strands of the World Wide Web for Educators" and in his "Working
the Web for Education." The selection of teaching-oriented
sites, subdivided by subject area, is particularly fine and is kept
up-to-date. This is very likely the best education site on the
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Math
and Reading Help for Kids is a user-friendly directory of hundreds
of articles and resources to help parents and children make informed
decisions about school related issues. This website also recommends
children's tutoring and educational games to help kids improve math
and reading skills. There is a wealth of practical advice and information
here, useful for teachers as well. |
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MERLOT
(Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
is hosted by the California State University Center for Distributed
Learning and offers a growing collection of online teaching resources
from around the world. While anyone can view the online collection,
membership (available for free upon registration) gives users rights
to post new resources and to comment on existing ones. The focus
is on university-level teaching, but many of the resources could be
used at the secondary level as well. |
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EduHound
is maintained by T.H.E. Journal (Technological Horizons in Education)
and provides a useful classification and listing of a broad range
of educational sites. Teacher-related topics such as standards
and assessment and educational software are included.
T.H.E. Journal is available online and also by free subscription. |
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Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators provides
an easy-to-use, subject-based list of sites on the internet that can
be used to enhance both classroom activities and professional growth.
There are a lot of very nice websites collected here, as well as useful
"slide shows" for teachers about using the web. |
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This
History/Social
Studies Web Site includes humanities as well, and has a large
collection of relevant links. The size of the collection here
can be daunting at times and not all links are annotated, but there
are many gems to be found. The websites in the Creative
Applications section are chosen for the way they creatively utilize
the web's educational potential; check them out! |
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EdHelper.com
provides links to a large number of online lesson plans organized
by subject. It also includes on its entry page a useful set
of links to recent articles on education-related subjects. |
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The
Busy Teachers' WebSite K-12
offers specific lesson plans and projects for many subjects, as well
as opportunities for classes to participate in ongoing "interactive
web projects." |
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EDSITEMENT:
The Best of the Humanities on the Web is sponsored by the National
Endowment of the Humanities and includes an excellent array of NEH
websites under the categories of Art
and Culture, Literature
and Language Arts , Foreign
Language, and History
and Social Studies. |
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Educational
Resources and Lesson Plans
includes just that, including lesson plans designed to make use of
the internet and a variety of other useful resources. |
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Technology Tips for Educators provides 5-minute instructions
on how to do all sorts of useful things with computers and the internet. |
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Room
108 contains links to all sorts of online educational
games and interactive sites in the music, science, math, social studies,
and more. An unusual and very entertaining set of resources. |
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The
New York Times Learning
Network offers a lesson plan related to a current news story as
well as a very useful archive
of previous ones, along with news quizzes and other teaching resources.
The Times also maintains a useful general purpose page used by its
newsroom to navigate
the web. |
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Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence
provides long lists of educational resources from government agencies
and government-funded projects by subject area. The lists are
not annotated, but there is an abundance of excellent resources here.
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