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Curriculum | Research | Planning/Administration | Students | Schools
Classroom Tools
- Gaggle Safe, controlled student e-mail accounts. Teachers can eliminate harassing and pornographic e-mail, monitor message content, or block e-mail with outsiders. The site has a monitoring system to flag suspicious mail.
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Standards and Evaluation
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Keeping Kids Safe Online
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Home/School Connection
- FamilyEducation.com, launched in 1996 by the Family Education Network, which has been providing parents with information designed to increase their involvement in education since 1990.
- American School Directory, which works with a number of corporate partners to offer its free Web services.
- Nschool is dedicated to providing free Web-based services to connect parents, teachers, and students.
- IBM's Learning Village offers a comprensive set of tools to provide Internet-based communication and collaboration among schools, parents, and the community.
- Making It Equitable
Equity-minded schools interested in using technology to bring all families into the fold are going beyond providing Web-based information and focusing on the issue of getting the technology itself into the hands of parents, with after-school classes and laptop take-home programs. These companies are involved in these sorts of ventures:
Microsoft's Anytime Anywhere Learning" Initiative involves partnerships; resources include guides to setting up laptop programs and summits for educators.
NetSchools offers every student and teacher in a participating program a wireless laptop ready to connect to both the Internet and a school's intranet from school and home.
Lightspan's Achieve Now is a program built around CD-ROM titles and inexpensive game machines for the homes, believing kids will be motivated to spend more time on homework, and family members will be more involved, if the homework is a video game.
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Sites for Busy Administrators
- Add-A-Form lets you add surveys, polls, questionnaires, and other feedback forms to any school, classroom or student Web site. You can build your own custom form, post it on any designated Web page, and then collect the compiled results.
- Administrator's Resources on the Net
- Education Week
- Internet-based Personal Management for Non-Techies
- Yahoo!: E-mail, schedules, address book, to-do lists, file storage ("My Briefcase").
- Excite: E-mail, schedules, address book, to-do lists, notepad.
- Netscape: E-mail, schedules, address book.
- Microsoft Hotmail: E-mail.
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School Reform Models & Information
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Assessing Technology's Impact
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Portals
- Britannica.com is a "knowledge and learning center" portal that makes a great default home page for research workstations. Britannica.com allows users to search a database of more than 125,000 expertly reviewed Web sites; the full text of the Encyclopýdia Britannica; a collection of selected full-text articles from more than 70 magazines; and citations for related books.
- School.aol.com Designed to be a useful everyday tool for schools, it prioritizes its audience to the extent of offering six individual grade-level-specific portals through which students "matriculate" as they advance.
- AT&T Learning Network relies on collaborations with Penn State University, George Washington University, and many other institutions to form a robust Virtual Academy where teachers can work on credentialing requirements or take classes on technology integration.
- FREE, which stands for Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, is a vertical portal for research purposes. It can easily serve as a single entry point for searching the hundreds of educational resources available through U.S. government agencies.
- My Yahoo! Perhaps the best possible portal is one designed specifically for you and your students. Yahoo! was one of the first sites to offer individuals the capability of creating their own portals. My Yahoo! allows you to customize the layout and links of your personal start page. Registration is free, and once registered, you have access to a personalized page with a calendar, ready access to favorite sites, free e-mail, and instant messaging.
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School-to-Work
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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
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Technology Training and Staffing
- Generation www.Y (also known as Generation Why) is a project developed through a U.S. DOE Technology Innovation Challenge Grant to enlist "today's youth as partners--and often leaders--in bringing technology to the classroom." The Generation model is based on coursework that teaches students the technology, communication, and teaching skills they need to mentor teachers in technology integration. Over 300 schools in 29 states are currently implementing the Generation www.Y class model.
- Michigan's Department of Education has a major project under way at this time to establish state guidelines to maintain effective educational technology programs in schools and school districts.
- TEK2000, a student technology enterprise in the Southern Berkshire Regional School District, offers an array of Internet services.
- School/Business Partnerships
A unique type of school/business partnership has made major headway in high schools in recent years. High-tech companies have stepped in to offer state-of-the-art coursework and professional certification to students as young as 16.
- 3Com NetPrep NetPrep classes teach students to design, implement, manage, and integrate computer networks. Rather than focusing directly on 3Com technology, NetPrep's designers pride themselves on offering a "vendor-neutral, standards-based curriculum" that trains students to work in any networking environment.
- Cisco Systems Academies The Cisco Academy Program teaches students how to design, build, and maintain computer networks. Online curriculum, hands-on experiences, and fieldwork prepare students for certification as Cisco Certified Network Associates (CCNA). Generally, the high school experience includes four semesters of work in the junior and senior years. Some schools offer the program to younger high school students as well. Many junior colleges and a number of four-year colleges will provide continued training tied to Cisco Certified Network Professional certification.
- Nortel Networks' NetKnowledge This four-semester program includes courses in Internetworking fundamentals, routing, switching, network management, unified networks, and emerging technologies.
- Novell Education Academic Partner (NEAP) Through the Novell Education Academic Partner (NEAP) program, students learn how to administer computer networks through hands-on lab exercises using equipment, books and materials authorized by Novell. Students completing the courses are able to handle the day-to-day administration of installed Novell networking software. NEAP is available to high schools, secondary vocational schools, and advanced or magnet middle schools throughout the world.
- REALskills! Three companies--SmartForce (formerly CBT Systems), National Computer Systems, and Manpower Professional (formerly Manpower Technical)--recently combined efforts to establish the REALskills! program. Courses currently available prepare students to test for Microsoft Certified Professional, NT Workstation and Server, and CompTIA's A+ certification.
- Tech Support
- techs4schools provides free online tech support for teachers from a team of volunteer technology professionals. Techs4schools is sponsored by Compaq Computer
- SupportNet
- ZDnet Help & How-to
- Ask Jeeves promises to "tame the Net for you" by letting users ask their questions in plain English and by retrieving information from an extensive knowledge base of millions of frequently asked questions.
- Google prides itself on delivering more highly relevant search results than other engines.
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