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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.

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.



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