• Academic
Innovations
Workshops and career seminars for guidance couselors and instructors bring
academic professionals the latest technological and theoretical methods.
• Academic Net
Academic Net directs teachers and administrators to publications and
conferences exploring the intersection of technology and education.
Visitors should take advantage of a search engine to rake through the
database for your particular discipline.
• BRHS Information
Retrievers
BRHS Information Retrievers offer useful links and starting points for
educators, librarians and high school students who are doing research or
simply browsing the Web.
• Center for
Educational Outreach and Innovation
The Teachers College at Columbia University operates this experimental
facility. You may read its newsletter, take advantage of its links, keep
up with innovations in distance learning and more through the site.
• Chat: Home's Cool
Homeschool and Family Site
Home schoolers and scholees may discuss the benefits of math in the living
room at this paid membership site. Pass along materials or swap lines of
moral support.
• Children,
Stress and Natural Disasters
Set of resources for teachers and others that helps prepare them for
working with children who have been through a disaster. It includes a
Guide for Teachers.
• Cornell
Theory Center Math and Science Gateway, The
The Internet can be a great teaching tool, and Cornell University wants to
help young people benefit from the Net's educational potential. To this
end, its Math and Science Gateway offers links to excellent educational
sites for high school students.
• David
Levin's Learning@Web.Sites
Learning@Web.Sites is an award-winning guide intended primarily for senior
high school educators who would like to enhance their curriculum and
instruction using the Internet. High school students will also find it to
be a rich online resource guide.
• Early Childhood
Educators' and Family Web Corner
A gold mine for early childhood educators and parents. Posts articles
about controversial topics, news, teleconference schedules, suggested fun
activities, message boards, job listings and links to magazines,
newspapers and more education-related sites.
• EdLinks
West Virginia high school principal John Mullens maintains a directory of
links to some of the Net's best education sites, which will be of use to
students, parents and educators alike!
• Education
Chat: The Progressive Educator
Creators of this forum intend it to be a real-time discussion of
education, teaching and schools among the alternative and progressive
education community.
• Educational
Resources Site, The
On these pages you will find a wide range of educational resources for
anyone with an interest in education. In particular these resources are
suitable for the 8-18 age range, within educational organizations.
• Educator's Toolkit, The
Directory of education and art links bursts with leads to special
education sites as well as more teaching resources and lesson plan ideas.
A newsletter lists the 50 most compelling sites.
• IBM K-12 Education
Promotes IBM educational software for teachers. Offers technological
solutions to teaching condundrums and helps institutions meet federal
requirements with creative curriculum development.
• Instructor
How can I get first-graders interested in math? How do I deal with problem
children? These are a few of the questions that Scholastic.com addresses
in this Web-zine. Posted are articles about classroom management and
curriculum strategies, contests, more.
• Intel in
Education Home Page
Semiconductor giant enthusiastically nurtures the next generation of
high-tech developers and its educators. Learn how to get financial and
technological support, including scholarships and funding, job training,
classroom equipment and software.
• Kathy Schrock's
Guide for Educators
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the
Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher's
professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the
tremendousnumber of new Web sites on the subject.
• Kid Info
Students, teachers and parents are invited to browse their respective
index to find Internet resources appropriate for them. In addition to
parent, teacher and student indices, there is also a directory for young
children.
• Media Awareness
Network
Gives parents and teachers the tools they need to teach media literacy at
home and in school. Suggests ways to convey abstract concepts to kids to
help them understand what they see on television and read in the news.
• Mission: Critical
Designed to sharpen critical-thinking skills, interactive learning tool
pairs instructional text with quizzes designed to hammer home concepts
such as conditional chain arguments and fallacious appeals. Logic lessons
help clear up fuzzy thinking!
• Mt. Laurel Hartford
School's Library Without Walls
The Library Without Walls has been developed to supplement print resources
at Mt. Laurel Hartford School, offering links to sites which support its
curriculum and will be useful to 5th and 6th graders in completing school
assignments.
• National Center to
Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology, Media and
Materials
Introduces special education teachers to technologies that assist
students. Video and a guided tour of two exemplary classes illustrate how
students use these aids.
• National Clearinghouse for
Bilingual Education
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and intended to improve
language and cultural education for individuals learning English as a
second language. Focuses on disseminating materials, building a network of
educators and deploying resources.
• Odyssey of the Mind
Nonprofit program teaches divergent thinking and problem-solving skills to
kids using challenging activities both inside and outside classroom
environments. Suitable for kindergarten through college. Features local,
national and international competition.
• PedagoNet Chat
This comprehensive site for teachers offers a forum for sharing course
ideas, job information and support. Generally this is an open room,
although an occasional moderated chat is scheduled.
• Regional Alliance for
Mathematics and Science Education, The
A model of how properly managed networked resources can play a pivotal
role in developing effective learning programs. Bent on reforming math,
science and technology education in the United States.
• Resources for
Kindergarten Teachers
The hedgehog is your online mascot for a tour of teacher resources. Leads
you to CD-ROM, book and movie reviews, tips, school reform articles, links
to other educational sites and, oddly enough, articles about Prague,
Czechoslovakia.
• Student and Teachers' Lounge:
Web University
Who knows whether the actual people behind these member names are students
and teachers. If so, they rarely discuss the square of the hypotenuse.
Still, a well-populated, good discussion area lies here.
• Teacher's Internet Pages, The
The Teacher's Internet Pages are updated, in part, every day and are
written by a team of international school teachers who have volunteered to
make a useful resource for other international school teachers and
administrators.
• Teachers.Net
Informative resource for teachers posts a reference desk, chat, lesson
exchange and more, delivering news, language and curriculum resources and
information about people and places. There are also job and mentor
centers.