Educator's Resources



	Language of the Internet and Discussion Groups \| Contacting Other Educators \| Lesson Plans on the Internet \| School and Classroom Projects Using the Internet
	Educator's Resources General Resources Acceptable Use Policies - Do They Protect Us http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listaupsaj.html AUPs are signed up parents and students and in some cases teachers, in most school Districts. Essentially, it is a way to protect a school from harm and allow the school to take disciplinary action for inappropriate use. Is it enough? Argus Clearinghouse Guides http://www.clearinghouse.net/ The Internet is about collaboration and cooperation. Individuals and organizations make their information resources available. The Clearinghouse Guides authors search for these resources, and then describe, evaluate, repackage, and include the information in their Guides, and make available these guides via a central location. Ask Eric http://ericir.syr.edu/ This pioneering Web site sets the standard for K-12 educational Internet resources. There are 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.) Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) http://www.ala.org/acrl/il/ This is a gateway to and a gathering place for resources on information literacy focused on improving the teaching, learning, and research role of the higher education community. Search for Eric Digests http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/index/ 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. Big6™ Skills Information Problem Solving Process http://www.big6.com The Big6 is the most widely known and used approach to teaching information research skills. CyberGuide Ratings for Content Evaluation http://www.cyberbee.com/guide1.html Designed for teacher use, add the total number of points you award to a given site using their rubric and determine the overall CyberGuide rating. The rubric asks questions about content. California Learning Resource Network http://clrn.org/home/ The purpose of this site is to provide a one-stop information source that enables California educators to identify supplemental electronic learning resources that meet local and state frameworks and standards. CARET: Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology http://caret.iste.org/ CARET was founded in 2000 with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. CARET drew on the research literature and input from educational groups to establish a list of critical questions in educational technology and a set of criteria for evaluating research in terms of both methodology and relevance. CSULB Information Literacy for K-16 Settings http://www.csulb.edu/~lfarmer/infolitwebstyle.htm Extensive resource page for Big6™ (research process) support, with lesson files CTAP Region IX Orange County http://www.ocde.k12.ca.us/ctap/ The major purpose of California Technical Assistance Program is to promote the effective use of technology in teaching and learning through the regional coordination of educational support services based on local needs. Five key component areas of this project are: Staff Development, Technical Assistance, Information and Learning Resources, Telecommunication Infrastructure, and Coordination and Funding. Educator's Reference Desk http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world. Eric Clearinghouse http://www.accesseric.org/ This site provides 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. Federal Resources for Educational Excellence http://www.ed.gov/free/subject.html More than 30 federal agencies make hundreds of high quality federally supported resources available at this site. There are programs that you can be a part of, plus excellent web sites that can be used in classes. Guides to help you on the Internet from the Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/Region2/library/pubs.htm#net 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! Irvine Unified School District http://www.iusd.org/district_info/homeland/schsafeinfo.htm Comprehensive school safety information. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Critical Evaluation http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html Articles on website evaluation. There is a great deal covered on Kathy Schrock's pages including lesson plans and teaching tools. Resources for Parents and Teachers http://www.fema.gov/kids/teacher.htm This site for kids identifies online resources acquaint kids with the need for emergency planning. Rubric-Maker http://www.teach-nology.com Teach-nology.com offers teachers free access to 21,000 lesson plans, 5,600 printable worksheets, over 200,000 reviewed web sites, 50+ teaching articles, 60 teaching themes, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice from expert teachers and more. SBCEO: For Teachers: Critical questions on Emergency Preparedness for Teachers http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/emergency.html This site from Santa Barbara contains a list of questions teachers should consider in preparing for a possible emergency in the schools or classrooms. Standards Matrix http://www.surfline.ne.jp/janetm/big6info.htm Uses the Big6 skills process and the National Information Literacy Standards developed by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and Association for Educational and Communications Technology (AECT). Teacher Source http://www.pbs.org/teachersource 4000+ lesson plans and activities, many based on primary sources, all tied to PBS programming. The Teacher’s Guide to the U. S. Dept. of Education http://www.ed.gov/pubs/TeachersGuide/ This is 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). Teaching with Historic Places http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp This program from the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, created in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, offers information for using historic places to teach. Big6 Template http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/library/Big6template.htm A helpful template for using the Big6 research process. U. S. Dept. of Education http://www.ed.gov This is the official Home Page of the U.S. Department of Education containing lots of links to educational documents, program information, and research and education information. What’s new on the Web http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-41.html A site dedicated to helping people find new and useful Internet resources with lists of links to a number of "What's New"-type services which evaluate and/or describe new sites. Top Language of the Internet and Discussion Groups The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/ 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 be a good Net Citizen in the process! Especially useful are sections on Electronic Communications, Discussion Groups, and the Introduction. Internet Terminology and Definitions http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~au/workshop/int-def.htm Find definitions for those strange and exotic new words you see while using or reading about the Internet. Glossary of Internet Terms http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html A good source for definitions of words and terms related to the Internet. Common Internet File Formats http://www.matisse.net/files/formats.html This is similar to the resource above. "This list is mainly intended for use on Macintosh computers and PC's running MS-Windows. This is only a partial list of what really is out there but for these common platforms, the majority of the file types encountered on-line can handled with the tools herein." Top Contacting other Educators Ask Eric Discussion Group Archives http://ericir.syr.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?searchform+listservs A collection of the latest postings to popular education discussion groups such as K12ADMIN, LM_NET, KIDSPHERE, and Ednet. Search The List of Lists http://catalog.com/vivian/interest-group-search.html Search one of the largest directories of special interest group e-mail lists (also known as listservs) available on the Internet. Tile Net/Listserv http://Tile.net/ 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. Top Lessons on the Internet Welcome to Tales from the Electronic Frontier http://www.wested.org/tales/index.html Ten teachers share actual classroom experiences using the Internet in K-12 science and mathematics. Their vivid, first-hand accounts illustrate how this powerful tool can enhance teaching and learning. Drawing on teacher successes and dilemmas, Tales can help expand classroom resources, engage students in new ways and connect with other teachers. Tales includes over 50 annotated resources, sharing information about online math/science organizations and Web sites. Ask Eric Lesson Plans http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/ 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. The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse http://enc.org/ 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. "Historical Treasure Chests" http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/treasure/index.html A model for engaging students in an investigation of authentic materials from the past. Four primary sources - a photograph, a letter, a map, and a rare book - and questions to guide the investigations. Media Analysis Tools for teachers Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndpedu/lessons/media.html National Archives Digital Classroom http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/worksheets.html This site has a worksheet for teaching about political cartoons. Look on the American Government page for political cartoons. NCSA SuperQuest for Teachers http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/SuperQuest/sqt/projindex.html 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. Top School and Classroom Projects Using the Internet The Global Schoolhouse http://www.gsn.org/ Global Schoolhouse has joined forces with Lightspan.com to bring you the best online collaborative learning. Please use the links on this page to find Global Schoolhouse content and tools plus easy access to the wealth of material on Lightspan.com. 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. Inter-Cultural E-Mail Classroom Connection http://www.teaching.com/iecc/ 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. Internet Subject Specific Paper Mills http://www.coastal.edu/library/papermil.htm This sites was compiled as part of a Teaching Effectiveness Seminar on cheating, plagiarism and Internet paper mills. The sites are listed by title such as All Shakespeare and China Research Papers. Plagiarism and the Web http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm There is much useful information here with ideas for using bad papers of those paper mill sites to teach students that using those sites will only produce bad grades. There are resources and ideas. Thinking and Talking about Plagiarism http://bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/techtiparchive/ttip102401.htm This is a valuable site contain information about teaching strategies and assignments related to the issue of plagiarism. It takes a stance that policing is not the best way to solve the problem. There are ideas and information that you can use. Problems and Policies Providing Internet Access At School Acceptable Use Policies http://riceinfo.rice.edu/armadillo/acceptable.html 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 http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/~lchampel/netadv.html A Web-based Resource Guide for Librarians and Educators Interested in providing youth access to the Net. 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 Visit this helpful page to see some excellent ideas and plans! IUSD http://www.iusd.org/bdpolicy/policies/6163_4a.htm Technical Resources Acceptable Use Policy. Top


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