Sites for Educators
Reference Sites
Data Security: Fighting Off Cyber-Hackers
by Carol Holzberg
Here's information on computer security threats and what you can do to defend against adware, spyware, Internet hackers and the more than 500 PC viruses discovered each month.
Handhelds in the Classroom : A Web Tour
by Karen Vitek
Whether you're new to handhelds or you've been using them for a while, these Web sites will provide you with new ideas on how you can make the most of these versatile tools.
Worksheets and Templates
by Carol Holzberg
The Web is a great place for teachers to go for templates and design tools to create print or online worksheets. Here's where to find them.
Web Tech Support
by Carol Holzberg
When something goes wrong on your computer, you need help fast. Here are online tech support services so that you can fix it yourself.
A Virtual Tour of Washington's Smithsonian Institution
by Gwen Solomon and Stan Solomon
The Smithsonian is the world's largest museum complex and it has awesome content. Take a virtual trip to find the education-specific assets of this incredible resource.
Education Web Logs
by Carol Holzberg
Web Logs (weblogs or blogs) offer a way for anyone to express opinions, communicate ideas, and share links. These education blogs will help you get started.
Teaching Information Literacy: Tips and Resources
by Leonarda Brush
Information literate people know how to find, evaluate, and use information effectively wherever the information is. Here are resources that can help teachers and students.
Web Tutorials
By Carol Holzberg
Looking for an opportunity to learn more about your favorite software? Don't want to spend big bucks to do it? No problem! With an Internet connection, you can work through interactive tutorials and courses at no charge. Take your pick and become application savvy!
WebQuests
By Pete MacKay
WebQuests are natural extensions of teaching with technology. In 1995, San Diego University's Bernie Dodge defined the WebQuest model of learning as an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. This tour provides much information about WebQuests.
Understanding Disabilities and Special Education
By Cheryl Irish, Ed.D.
Parents, educators, and professionals working with exceptional individuals often seek reliable information related to disabilities. The Web sites in this Web Tour were designed to provide information, assistance, and advocacy to persons with disabilities, their families, and the professionals who provide services for them. There is a wealth of information, including research articles, fact sheets, case law, chats, stories, and teaching strategies, available at these sites.
Assessment, Assessment Rubrics and Evaluation Guidelines
By Carol Holzberg
For assessment tips and tools, and for help in developing, adapting, or adopting assessments that detail what you expect students to learn and evaluate what they have mastered for any given lesson, visit the Web sites in this Web Tour.
Money, Business, and Economics
By Carol Holzberg, PhD
Teaching children the importance of money and how to manage it wisely makes "cents" in a world where everything has a price. Carol suggests these Web sites with a variety of teaching and learning resources on money-related topics to help students mind their own business.
Online News for Kids and Teachers
By Susan Brooks-Young
Using newspapers as a teaching tool promotes student literacy. This tour
takes you to exemplary newspaper sites for students and teachers, as well as
to online news magazines, news sites sponsored by television networks, and
some interesting sites students can use to increase their knowledge about
current events throughout the world. Get ready to "Read all about it."
Beginning the School Year with Digital Links
By Ken Royal
Ken's principal welcomes back teachers digitally as well as traditionally. His back to school letter sparked this article idea for Internet help for new and veteran teachers. All of us know that each year the chance to begin again is one of the profession's exciting features. Ken hopes these sites and links will help start your teachers off to a great start for the new school. I know they will relieve some new teacher anxieties.
Homework Help
By Susan Brooks-Young
At one time or another, most teachers have heard excuses from students concerning missing or late assignments. Today, however, teachers can encourage students to use the Internet as a solution for some of these issues. Susan points to a number of Web sites that offer on-going homework help. In addition to providing access to research materials, some sites have online tutorials, message boards and email services for specific questions, live chats for students to participate in, and help areas for parents and teachers.
Planning a Party
By VaReane Heese
Children enjoy planning a party. Now they can use Internet resources and other technology to plan their event. VaReane explains the brainstorming and planning that should come first and then describes the Web sites to bookmark for students to visit in planning and organizing fun events for their parties.
Reference Sites
By Carol S. Holzberg
Written words have the power to tickle our fancy and teach abstract thinking. Literature can make us laugh or cry, transport us to faraway places, introduce us to new experiences, and motivate us to do great things. The Internet is a great source for free classical poems, literature, and quotations for reference or learning. Carol points us to great literary materials online.
Online Reference Tools
By Carol S. Holzberg, PhD
Need a quick fact or a definition for a difficult English or foreign-language word? Head for the Internet! Carol provides free online reference Web sites that make it easy to locate information about a particular topic, verify the spelling of a search word, or translate a phrase.
Test Prep
By Jeffrey Branzburg
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SAT, PSAT, ACT, AP, GED, CLEP, TOEFL ... preparing for these standardized tests is an important task for students. Over the years many mechanisms have evolved to help in this preparation, from books to courses to videos. The web can also help in test preparation. Here is a list of web-based resources (some at a fee and some at no cost) that can help.
Lesson Plan Portals
By Carol Holzberg
Knowing what to teach is only half the battle. Figuring out a way to introduce the subject so that students understand it, integrate it with what they already know, and use it as a stepping-stone for lifelong learning requires imagination, creativity, and organizational skills. Sometimes it's difficult to come up with a good idea. Why waste time reinventing the teaching wheel when you can draw from the experience of others? Carol offers these lesson plan portals for classroom activities. She suggests that you use the lessons you find as is or modify them to suit your particular instructional style.
WebTour Guide
By Margaret Riel
Time to board your virtual tour-bus! Margaret, an acknowledged leader in telecommunications and educational computing, has compiled not just one but three separate tours.
- Tour 1 - We visit a wide-ranging but close-knit community of learners.
- Tour 2 - We view virtual objects, avatars, and other cutting-edge technology.
- Tour 3 - We visit some places where the technology facilitates educational reform. There'll be no lunch stops, so grab a snack and let's go!
The Busy Teacher’s Guide to Using Classroom Technology
By Michael Hutchison
For all the teachers who would like to develop technology-based lessons and conduct online projects, but who simply don’t have the time, resources, or ability to go it alone, here’s great advice. Michael provides his choices of web sites that can make your teaching more efficient and also more rewarding.
Ken's Konnections #17 -Sites By and For Technology Coordinators
By Ken Royal
Here's a sample of sites by and for Instructional Technology Coordinators. ITCs are teachers, advisors, and philosophers. More teachers have asked them for more favors than of almost anyone in education. Some have teams and others work alone to accomplish their tasks. Ken says that the sites cannot be separated from the people who share them. Behind every URL is a pioneer, leading the way in small and large districts throughout the United States. You may know someone in your own district in this position, or you may be the one who takes charge in a district needing direction. These sites help make a difference.
Ken's Konnections #16 -Tips and Ideas For Surviving the Beginning of School
By Ken Royal
If you are a teacher, you know that the reinventing never ends. In some ways, every teacher-new and old-is nervous at the start of a new school year and every teacher has a new beginning every year. Ken offers URLs for starting the new school year and hopes that these Konnections will not only help you begin your new school year on the right foot but also has useful advice that's applicable any time of the year.
Ken's Konnections #15 - Resources and Research
By Ken Royal
Some the most useful sites are in this Konnection - like everything from library resources to humanities sites. If you or your students need to know "Why?" you will find no better collection than this Konnection. Some are specific like Inventors Hall of Fame and some are more general like Ask Jeeves. Favorites include How Stuff Works, Needle in a Cyberstack, The World Lecture Hall, and TrackStar to name a few. Research using the Internet can be difficult, with many searches taking on a life of their own. These sites will narrow searches and still keep the thrill in the hunt for knowledge.
Ken's Konnections #14 - Technology
By Ken Royal
There are some cool places offering software, like Yahoo, and even advice for free, like ZDTV. If you enjoy experimenting with voice, chat, video, animations, and more, you may find something interesting here. I suggest that everyone check Yahoo's Messenger, PhoneFree, and Gif Construction Set or Gif Builder, even if you're not the experimenting kind. And donýt miss the lessons at ZDTV's site. Your students will love 16 Color, too.
Ken's Konnections #13 - Lessons and Learning Links
By Ken Royal
You'll find lessons and links that will enhance your teaching in this Konnections. It's always good to share ideas, and these sites are the height of that sharing. From multiple intelligences, to Zoom School, to Scholastic, to The Teacher's Toolbox, to Teachers.Net Lesson Bank, you'll find exciting new material, lessons, and units to use in your own classroom. Beginning teachers should try The Beginning Teachers' Toolbox built especially for them, too.
Ken's Konnections #8 - Do It Yourself Web Pages
By Ken Royal
If you need a base of operations on the Web, consider some of the free pages offered in this Konnections. Ken says that some work like professional Web sites, with FTP (file transfer protocol) software to upload data, while others give you simple choices to point and click. Check out the sites and examples that other teachers have created.
Ken'sKonnections #7 - Project Web Sites
By Ken Royal
This edition of Ken's Konnections is devoted to some great project sites on the Internet that will help you and your students become world citizens. The projects are designed, presented, and operated by some of the most incredibly generous people you'll ever find. Many spend countless hours after their "real" jobs to make student projects work smoothly. Ken presents such a large variety that there is bound to be something for everyone.
Tailoring Professional Development
by Joanne Tate
Successful professional development is like a good suit of clothes. It has to fit. Joanne Tate presents a wardrobe of professional development activities being tried on by educators in Victoria, Australia.
Special Education Resources
By Roger Gottlieb
Looking for resources for Special Education? This annotated resource list is extremely useful and leads to volumes of information.
On-line Resources for Librarians
By Roger Gottlieb
The Internet may be the world's largest library someday. And librarians and media specialists are already our guides through much of this information. Here is Roger's list of web sites for librarians and media specialists and for anyone who helps people find their way through the web's on-line resources.
Internet Glossary, Part II
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
Arun provides a new list of words that are important to telecommunications technology. Keep this list bookmarked when you know you'll encounter words you don't know.
Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terms
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
Have technical terms ever confused you? Arun provides a list of commonly used terms and acronyms and their definitions.
Internet Education Technology Resources
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
This month, Arun brings us sites about some of the critical issues in school reform, such as standards, effectiveness, and assessment.
More Sites for Teachers
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
Arun has found additional sites of interest to educators.
Teachers on the Internet
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
There are many places where teachers share information and ideas via the Internet. Here are a few of Arun's favorites.
More Education Web Sites
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
There are so many sites on the Internet devoted to education issues that Arun needed a second feature to provide additional information for you.
Educator Web Sites
By Arun Kumar Tripathi
Many educators want a variety of educational web sites that will help them use the Internet and other educational technologies in the classroom, Everybody will able to find some of their favorite sites in this list that Arun researched.
Education in Israel Online
By Amnon Till
Amnon presents general information about education online, web sites from schools, the Israeli Department of Education, search engines, and more.
Sites on Technology, Education & the Future
By Amnon Till
Amnon provides his top picks of sites that provide useful information on technology, education and the future.
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