| Title | Description | Link |
| Apple Learning Interchange | Social Network for educators. | http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/ |
| Intel Education | Promoting the next generation of math, science, and technology leaders through resources which will aid students and teachers. | http://www.intel.com/education/ |
| Microsoft Education | Microsoft's way of aiding student learning through the use of technology. | http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx |
| Education World | Great lessons, ideas, and technology links for the classroom. | http://www.education-world.com/ |
| My Physics Lab Simulations | Interactive physics-related simulations in real time. | http://www.myphysicslab.com/ |
| Merlot | Great resources for learning and online teaching. | www.merlot.org |
| Gliffy | Free tool for creating flow charts. | www.gliffy.com |
| Teacher Web | You can customize and personalize your own classroom web site. | www.teacherweb.com |
| Inspiration/Kidspiration | Their goal is to provide software to help students think. | http://www.inspiration.com/ http://www.kidspiration.com/companyinfo/index.cfm |
| 4Teachers.org | Provides easy to make quizzes, rubrics, and about anything else a teacher would need in the classroom. | http://www.4teachers.org/tools/ |
| My Gradebook.com | Easy to use online grade book. | http://www.mygradebook.com/default.cfm? |
| Second Life | A virtual world created by its residents. | http://secondlife.com/ |
| Pay Attention! | Great video which explains how education has changed and how we need to use technology to help our students. | http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4/content/view/221/35/ |
PBL-Online: Teaching and Learning Online
| Information and resources for teaching and learning online. | http://pbl-online.org/online_courses.htm |
| Cool Text | Great, free, and useful logos, buttons, and banners to spice up your presentations. | http://cooltext.com/ |
Resources List for EdTech 575
DigiTales
http://www.digitales.us/index.php
"DigiTales' Website provides ideas, resources and inspiration for families, individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, churches and everyone else ready to discover the power and magic of merging the art of storytelling with the enchantment of using digital tools." Learn the seven story making steps, gather ideas by exploring the many DigiTales stories, and then learn how to create your own.
KnightCite
http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/
Automatic citation generator is provided by Calvin College. Choose from MLA, APA, or Chicago citation styles in the upper left corner. Then, fill in the appropriate information, and this page creates your citation, which can then be copied and pasted as needed.
Inside Art
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/
Inside Art is an online game which explores a painting from the inside out. During an art museum tour, you're sucked into a vortex and find yourself inside a mystery painting. Your only hope of escape is to answer the questions "Who?/What?/Where?/How?" A fish named Trish is your guide in this exploration of Van Gogh's Bank of the Oise at Auvers in its artistic and historical context.
Phonetics: The Sounds of Spanish
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
This site contains animated libraries of the sounds of Spanish and English. For each sound there is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-voice audio of the sound in context.
The Learning Zone
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/index.htm
The Learning Zone features a great series of interactive lessons for kids on fossils, animals, insects, rocks and minerals. Various characters (such as "Megan the Megalosaurus") help to guide students through the learning proces. From the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Energy Challenge
http://www.activescience-gsk.com/module12/home.html
This is a series of interactives and games that explore how much energy is in food, and how it is used by our bodies.
Science of Music
http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/index.html
What is music? Is birdsong music? How about the tap-tap-tap of a hammer, or the wail of a creaking door? Is playing a garbage can different than playing a drum? Explore the science of music through these online exhibits, movies, and questions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment, and above all…listen.
Thinking Fountain
http://www.thinkingfountain.org/
Lots of activities! Check out the experiments on how to grow mold, and lots of others! Click on the images on the main pictures for other activities. Also, explore the Index of Ideas and Theme Clusters.
Exlporers
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/explorers_start.htm
Students can read the pages about the explorers in the left column, and try some of the activities that go with each page. Then they can take an online quiz to see what they learned. The Explorers Chart is a timeline with links to individual reports for all the explorers listed at the site.
History of Inventions
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html
This site from CBC 4 Kids has an interactive timeline featuring facts about great inventions throughout history.
DinoDictionary.com
http://www.dinodictionary.com/index.asp
This site offers brief descriptions of 300 dinosaurs along with pronunciations of each as well as illustrations of their size compared to man. In the If Dinosaurs Could Talk section, listen to the dinosaurs talk about themselves to learn more about them. Play Do You Know Your Dinosaur to see how much you know about dinosaurs.
Living Things
http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/
If it's alive, it's in here. Anatomy, classification, ecosystems, and life cycles. Sponsored by the Franklin Institute Science Museum.
Money Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/flashcards/money
This money game flashes real photos of U.S. currency, and the student enters the amount of money that is shown. It shows the total of correct and incorrect answers. Great practice for students learning to count money!
Wordly Wise Wordbuilder Games
http://www.hoadworks.com/gamemenu.htm
This site contains a huge gallery of word games to build your vocabulary. The first two games are on an Internet server and are therefore blocked by Websense, but the rest of the games are all available.
Introduction to Bunraku
http://www2.ntj.jac.go.jp/unesco/bunraku/en/
This site explores the world of the Japanese art of Bunraku, the traditional puppet theatre of Japan. Learn the history, how the stage is constructed, and all about the puppets and how they are made. You may also view various video clips of Bunraku productions.
Careers in Earth Science
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/career/index.html
Sponsored by NASA, this site provides information about jobs in earth science such as geologist, meteorologist, and forest ranger.
Gettysburg: A Virtual Tour
http://www.civilwaralbum.com/gettysburg/index.htm
This site features over 450 photos, 48 panoramas and 18 maps taken during a summer 2001 guided tour of Gettysburg and the battlefield.
Create My Art Gallery
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/
This flash-enhanced site from the Seattle Museum of Art teaches kids how to understand works of art, and then helps them to select art to place in their own Virtual Gallery. One of the best art appreciation sites on the Web for students in Grades 2-6.
Natural History Museum
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/mammals/index.html
From tiny shrews to enormous whales, mammals are the most diverse group of animals ever to live on our planet. Equipped with wings, fins, horns and spines – they have evolved to fill many niches and roles. Discover more about this complex group, which of course, includes us.
Everyday Spelling
http://www.everydayspelling.com/welcome.html
This is a great resource for students in grades k-8. There are dozens of activities categorized by grade level to help students learn to spell. Visit the Workout Room for Puzzles, Words in the News, Writing Prompts, and Language Facts. The Reference Room has 25 Frequently Misspelled Words for each grade as well as Links to language tools and Spelling Strategies.
Visual Dictionary
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/
The Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work. You can use the Index to enter a word or use the picture index to navigate through 15 themes with 6,000 images. The themes are: Astronomy, Earth, Plants and Gardening, Animal Kingdom, Human Being, Food and Kitchen, House, Clothing and Articles, Arts and Architecture, Communications, Transport and Machinery, Energy, Science, Society, and Sports and Games. Try the Game of the Week, where you can put your language skills to the test.
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/index.html
Learn the basics of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and numbering with these online lessons. Lessons include Writing, Numbers & Fractions, and Eye of Horus. There are also links to other Egyptian sites.
Energy Quest Room
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/
This is a great site for students to explore to learn about energy. They can mouse over and click on the pictures on the main page to go to the different sections of the site. Sections include Movieroom, Time Machine, Art Gallery, Games, Solar Facts, and many more.
USA Map Games
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
Students can learn the states and their capitals with fun online games. There are also links to many other educational activities on this page.
News Map
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
Kaleidoscope Painter
http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
Student's can use their imagination to create kaleioscope pictures with this online applet. Just click and drag the mouse slowly around the black square. Changing the brush size creates a different look. Click Clear to start over.
A Walk in the Woods
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/woods/
At this site from the University of Illinois Extension, students can take a virtual walk in the woods and listen as someone describes what they are seeing. There is also a Spanish version of the walk. Be sure to check out the Index, Teacher's Guide, Nature Notes, Getting Ready, and Fun Place.
CARENET: Click on a question below to find answers, best research evidence, references, and CARET selected studies:
http://caret.iste.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=questions&topicID=1
ISTE
http://www.iste.org/
NCREL - Critical Issue: Using Technology to Improve Student Acheivement
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/technlgy/te800.htm
Apple Learning Interchange - 2007: Teaching Ideas
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/collection.php?collection=1
Intel Education
http://www97.intel.com/education/
Microsoft Education
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.mspx
Education World - Technology Tools
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/archives/tools.shtml
4Teachers - Teach with Technology
http://www.4teachers.org/
Clicker Classroom
http://www.clickerclassroom.com/K-12.html
Content Area Resources
The Internet as an Instructional Tool: Learning Resources
http://edtech.boisestate.edu/elearn/links/learningresources.htm
The Internet as an Instructional Tool: Links for Educators
http://edtech.boisestate.edu/elearn/links/educatorlinks.htm
Merlot (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) http://www.merlot.org/
My Physics Lab Simulations
http://www.myphysicslab.com/
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/doc/intro.jsp
Gliffy (free, Web-based, and collaborative)
http://www.gliffy.com/
Cmap (free and collaborative)
http://cmap.ihmc.us/
Inspiration/Kidspiration (not free, but they do have a 30 day trial)
http://www.inspiration.com/
4Teachers.org
http://www.4teachers.org/tools/
Teacher Web
http://teacherweb.com/
My Gradebook.com
http://www.mygradebook.com/default.cfm?
Social Networking How To:
http://www.edutopia.org/how-use-social-networking-technology
Social Networking: Their Space
http://www.edutopia.org/whats-next-2007-school-social-networking
Internet for Educators - Learning Resources (this will get you started)
http://edtech.boisestate.edu/elearn/links/learningresources.htm
Second Life
http://secondlife.com/
Club Penquin
http://www.miniclip.com/games/club-penguin/en/
FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://www.free.ed.gov/
Merlot (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.org/
Link to Content Specific Instructional Software Links
Club Penquin http://www.miniclip.com/games/club-penguin/en/
Club Penguin was created by New Horizon Interactive in response to growing concerns about the safety of children online. The site was created after consulting with educators, law enforcement representatives and other parents, doing extensive research into online safety, and conducting widespread testing. Finally, in October 2005, Club Penguin opened to the public. Its founders continue to focus on the three key areas: fun, safety and service. The Club Penguin world is updated every week and most of the company’s resources go into making Club Penguin safer than ever. Eighty per cent of Club Penguin’s staff is made up of safety personnel and moderators, many of whom are also parents.
Second Life http://secondlife.com/
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 3,051,919 people from around the globe. From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. You'll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow residents. Because residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other residents. This site contains areas with mature content. However, you can restrict access to a "PG" section of the site especially devoted to teens. You can read some interesting things about Second Life here: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/12/02.html.
Online Teaching Practice
Online Teaching Resources-DeAnza College
http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/taylorvalerie/stories/storyReader$42
Online Teaching Best Practice
http://www.riverwithin.com/best_practice.htm
Teaching Online: Have You Got What it Takes?
http://members.shaw.ca/mdde615/index.htm
Examples of online tasks and activities
Connections Academy Curriculum Samples
http://www.connectionsacademy.com/curriculum/samples.asp
K12 Sample Lessons
http://www.k12.com/curriculum/sample_lessons.html
Headsprout Sample Lessons
http://www.headsprout.com/home/samples.cfm
TX TIPD Corp
http://txtipd.wm.edu/virtuallesson.php
WorldWideLearn "demo and sample courses"
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/learning-tools/elearning-demos.htm
Online Learning Communities and Community Building
New! Curriki: Global Education and Learning Community
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
Learning Times
http://www.learningtimes.net/
Learning Communities Catalyst
http://www.lcc.edu.au/
Community Learning Network
http://www.cln.org/
Edutopia: Professional Development Through Learning Communities
http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_481&key=238
Social Networking Sites and Teens: An Overview
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp
How to: Social Networking Tools for Learning
http://www.edutopia.org/how-use-social-networking-technology
Social Networking: Their Space
http://www.edutopia.org/whats-next-2007-school-social-networking
Internet-based Tools for Learning
7 Things You Should Know:
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=7495&bhcp=1
Educational Bloggers Network (EBN):
http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/
Weblogg-ed:
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
School Blog News:
http://www.schoolblogs.com/
Edublog Webring:
http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=edublog;action=list
Content Delivery in the Blogosphere:
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4677A.cfm
More than Personal: The Impact of Weblogs:
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/xml/papers.cgi?format=full&id=3
The Weblog Question:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=59100462
Blogging for Librarians:
http://www.geneseo.edu/~Pitcher/toc.shtml
Web Teacher - How to Use the Internet
http://www.webteacher.org/macnet/indextc.html
Edutopia: A Glorified Whiteboard
http://www.edutopia.org/1756
Quick Topic free message boards (create your own message board here...)
http://www.quicktopic.com/
Wikis in the classroom - video link with an introduction to wikis and classroom uses
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3429997833514823728&q=classroom&hl=en
Journal of Online Teaching and Learning
http://jolt.merlot.org/vol3no3/frydenberg.htm
Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage Blogs:
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html
Article in ISTE's Learning and Leading with Technology
Blog On: Building Communication and Collaboration Among Staff and Students
Several Articles in Learning Technology (IEEE Computer Society)
http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/october2006/index.html#_Toc148658494
Study on Kid's and Social Networking
e School News article about Kid's and Social Networking:
http://www.eschoolnews.org/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=7304
Kids Social Networking Study (the actual study)
http://www.grunwald.com/surveys/sn/index.php
NSBA Publication (publication related to the study):
CREATING & CONNECTING//Research and Guidelines on Online Social — and Educational — Networking
NSBA Educational Technology:
http://www.nsba.org/site/page.asp?TRACKID=&CID=63&DID=195
