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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES:

Blue Web'n A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web. Classroom Connect You'll find K-12 lesson plans, grants, and resources here. ERIC (Educational Products Information Exchange Institute) This is a K-College resource site from 16 Clearinghouses. Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library A great resource for both teachers and students. Over 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, and it's absolutely free. The entries are short so you can check facts quickly. There are also links to related web sites and books. From Now On: the Educational Technology Journal A top site for everything education and technology. Besides being able to subscribe to free monthly journal, the site offers articles on assessment, parenting, staff development, web site design, and the "Ten Best Web Sites for Educational Technology." A must visit. The Global Schoolhouse This site facilitates collaborative projects among other things. Pacific Bell Education First If you want to know more about the Education First initiative, this is the place to visit.

Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) You can visit many places within this site, including TEAMS Distant Learning and the Teacher Technology Center (TTC) California Department of Education This site offers a wealth of resources from educational grants to parent programs around the state. Pointers to other educational resources are plentiful.Visit California High School Networks Project, Specialized Secondary Schools, and California Partnerships Academy. U.S. Department of Education You can find grant opportunities and descriptions of successful programs. Links to great resources and research findings.

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Useful Web Sites for Teachers

 

PBS Teacher Resources:

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thornburg/index.shtm

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thornburg/thornburgarchive.shtm

These sites contain a myriad of information and archives of articles that teachers may find valuable. The Thornburg archive alone makes good reading. "Teaching with Technology: From Teaching to Learning -- A Canadian Perspective" by David Thornburg discusses making a shift from traditional teaching to project-based learning.

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/whats_new/techknow/archives.shtm

More archives of articles related to teaching with technology

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/teachtech/research.shtm

Links to the "latest and greatest" in educational technology research studies available online.

 

4teachers.com:

http://www.4teachers.org/feature/nebraska-yaf/index.shtml

Teaching creative writing across the Net: three teachers started a Young Authors Forum with the help of a grant. "connections are born out of honest communication. Both Hoatson and English believe the geographic distance between authors and reviewers provides anonymity for both parties. The forum encourages students to produce more text and their reviewers to comment more honestly. Each piece of writing is considered for its own merit with no regard to author status: economic, social, or academic."

 

NEA (National Education Association) - Teaching

http://www.nea.org

This site offers links to selected articles about teaching in general.

 

Englishcompanion.com

http://www.englishcompanion.com/

A must on your list of important sites, this site is a wonderland of great stuff for the English teacher. Jim Burke, who wrote English Teacher's Companion and other great books for English teachers, hosts the site, which in spite of the ".com" moniker, is a non-profit site. It will take repeated visits to take advantage of all its resources for teachers of English language arts.

 

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning - (McREL) K-12 Services & Products

http://www.mcrel.org/products/tech/technology/prodev.asp

This site contains links to other educational resources and services

 

Educator's Toolkit

http://www.Eagle.ca/~matink/

This is a newsletter that contains links to teacher resources, libraries, technology, parents, kids, themes, mini-themes, holidays, projects and lessons.

 

EDinformatics-Education for the Information Age

http://www.edinformatics.com/index.htm

This is a database of information leading to over 1,000,000 reviewed sites. Go to Literature, and you'll find a link to Chats and Forums.

 

TEACH THE TEACHERS COLLABORATIVE

http://www.teachtheteachers.org/

This site is a fairly new effort by private industry (Vons) and LACOE to provide a one-week workshop for teachers in Ojai, California at the Thatcher School. The site offers lessons that participants have created during their sessions. Although there are few English language arts- only lessons, you will find that it runs as a strand in many subject areas. Their lesson plan archives provides a model lesson which is used as a template for web-based lessons.

 

Education week on the Net

http://www.edweek.org/

This magazine (print & electronic) features current educational news plus information about teachers and technology.

 

CUE (Computer Using Educators)

http://www.cue.org/

Every teacher needs to attend at least one CUE conference in his or her professional lifetime. This site has something for everyone.

 

SCORE Activity Bank

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/sindex.htm

This section of the SCORE website contains a sections on graphic organizers, journaling, literature, rubrics, and writing. The rubrics section alone is an invaluable resource for both students and teachers of English language arts.

 

Education World "Where Educators go to Learn"

http://www.educationworld.com/

This site contains a storehouse of information, from "Subject Centers" to "Feature Areas." A must visit.

 

SCORE: CyberGuides: Teacher Guides & Student Activities

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

This site contains guides for the teaching of literature, grades K-12. It offers a template for a "new, standards-based, web-delivered concept at SCORE language arts" that would be worth looking as a basis for a lesson.

 

Pac Bell's Knowledge Network Explorer

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/

This site is home base for Blue Web'n, WebQuests, Filamentality, Lessons & More.

 

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educator

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

This site is "a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best sites for teaching and learning."

 

Filamentality

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

This site helps you create web-based activities for your students. You can begin with a Hot List, or choose a Sampler, Scrapbook , Hunt, or even a WebQuest. You can leave your activity on their server, edit it anytime, make as many as you need, and even delete it when you want.

 

SEETC (Southeast Educational Technology Consortium

http://www.seetc.org/

This site, made possible by a Technology Literacy Challenge Grant, was developed to "provide teachers the opportunity to share 'best practices' in the area of Reading/Language Arts." There are 16 schools in the consortium, and there are many resources for teachers of English language arts, including a template to help teachers get started.