Gil Dyrlis Web Resources
Presented at:
Hot Springs Technology Institute 2005
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Hot Springs School District
http://www.hssd.net
Web Technology and Curriculum Resources 2005
Odvard Egil Dyrli
Emeritus Professor of Education
Senior Editor/Web Editor, District Administration Magazine
www.districtadministration.com
Dedicated to the memory of Darlene Thompson, educator and friend
(Permission granted to copy and link to Web site for educational purposes)
Odvard Egil Dyrli
40 Barstow Lane, Tolland, CT 06084
dyrli@uconn.edu
Biography:
Web Resources (www.districtadministration.com):
· Dr. Hotlist’s Emerging Web Technologies
· Dr. Hotlist’s Curriculum HotSpots on the Web”
· Dr. Hotlist’s Professional Resources
· Dr. Hotlist’s Web Site of the Week
· “Odvard Egil Dyrli on…” monthly columns
Presentations:
The annual intensive update on new Web technologies that are transforming K-12 teaching, learning, and the curriculum, including global information systems, online cameras, language translators, online robots, darknets, podcasting, Really Simple Syndication, alternative Web browsers and Web furling (each participant receives a comprehensive and fully-verified guide to all resources).
· “Curriculum Hot-Spots on the Web 2005”
The annual intensive update on new online tools and resources to enrich, extend and transform the K-12 curriculum in every content area, including lesson plans, search tools, research centers, curriculum collections, online projects, links to schools and organizations, Web-based tutoring, Wiki sites, affinity groups, Wikicities, and professional resources for educators (each participant receives a comprehensive and fully-verified guide to all resources).
Emerging Web Technologies 2005
Odvard Egil Dyrli
Interactive Multimedia Web Technologies
· ActiveX from Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)
· Java from Sun Microsystems (java.sun.com)
· QuickTime from Apple (www.apple.com/quicktime)
· Shockwave, Flash and Dreamweaver from Macromedia (www.macromedia.com); (www.shockwave.com)
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· Internet Traffic Report (www.internettrafficreport.com)
· MCI Bandwidth Simulator (global.mci.com/us/enterprise/internet/simulator)
· Privacy.net (privacy.net); PrivacyFoundation (www.privacyfoundation.org)
· Anonymizer (www.anonymizer.com), AnonymousEmail (theanonymousemail.com)
AnyWho (www.anywho.com)
Bigfoot (www.bigfoot.com)
InfoSpace (www.infospace.com)
SuperPages (www.superpages.com)
Switchboard.com (www.switchboard.com)
US Search (www.ussearch.com)
Who2 (www.who2.com)
WhoWhere? (www.whowhere.lycos.com)
Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com)
Cyndi’s List (www.cyndislist.com)
Ellis Island Foundation (www.ellisisland.org)
FamilyHistory.com (www.familyhistory.com)
FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org)
Genealogy.com (www.genealogy.com)
National Genealogical Society (www.ngsgenealogy.org)
RootsWeb.com (www.rootsweb.com)
USGenWeb Project (www.usgenweb.org), WorldGenWeb Project (worldgenweb.org)
Atlapedia Online (www.atlapedia.com)
Cheap Tickets (www.cheaptickets.com)—New site for FlightTracker, under “Travel Resources”
Expedia Maps (maps.expedia.com)
FreeTrip.com (freetrip.com)
Google Maps (maps.google.com)
MapMachine (plasma.nationalgeographic.com)
MapQuest (www.mapquest.com)
Maps On Us (www.mapsonus.com)
MSN Maps & Directions (www.mapblast.com)
MSN Virtual Earth TerraServer (terraserver.microsoft.com)
Nationalatlas.gov (nationalatlas.gov)
Real-Time Traveler Information (www.etaktraffic.com)
VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com)
Yahoo Maps (maps.yahoo.com)
Example: Earth and Moon Viewer (www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html)
Example: International Space Station (spaceflight.nasa.gov/station)
Example: Mars Odyssey (mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey)
Live Web Cams
AfriCam (www.africam.com)
EarthCam (www.earthcam.com)
Tommy’s List of Live Cams Worldwide (www.rt66.com/~ozone/cam.htm)
WeatherCams (cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/wxcam.html)
WebCam Central (www.camcentral.com)
Example: Times Square Cam (www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare)
Example: View Sydney Harbor (www.viewsydney.com)
Example: Wailing Wall/Jerusalem (aish.com/wallcam)
Example: Corn Cam (www.iowafarmer.com/corncam/corn.html)
Example: Falcon Cam (falcons.55water.com)
Example: Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam (www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh)
Online Language Translators
Babel Fish (babelfish.altavista.com)
Free2Professional Translation (www.freetranslation.com)
ImTranslator (translation.paralink.com)
Example: Education Portal of Argentina (www.educ.ar)
Example: Kids Web Japan (web-jpn.org/kidsweb/index.html)
Intelligent Agents
Active Sales Assistant (www.activebuyersguide.com)
Alexa (www.alexa.com)
Dealtime (www.dealtime.com)
Excite Shopping (shopping.excite.com)
Froogle (froogle.google.com)
GottaDeal (www.gottadeal.com)
mySimon (www.mysimon.com)
My Yahoo! (my.yahoo.com)
Shopping.com (www.shopping.com)
Top10Links (www.toptenlinks.com)
Woot (www.woot.com)
Chats/Forums
Activeworlds (www.activeworlds.com)
Administrators.Net (administrators.net)
Cybertown (www.cybertown.com)
TalkCity (www.talkcity.com)
Tapped In (tappedin.org)
Teacher Focus (teacherfocus.com)
Teachers.Net (teachers.net)
Topica (lists.topica.com)
RingSurf (www.ringsurf.com)
WebRing.com (www.webring.org)
World of Webrings (www.webringworld.com)
Instant Messaging (“IMs”)
AOL Instant Messenger (www.aim.com)
Microsoft’s MSN Messenger (messenger.msn.com)
Yahoo Messenger (messenger.yahoo.com)
ICQ.com (web.icq.com)
Web Phones/Voice Over IP
Dialpad (dialpad.com)
Get The Phone (www.getthephone.com)
GloPhone (www.glophone.com)
Net2Phone (www.net2phone.com)
People Resources
Academy of Achievement (www.achievement.org)
AllExperts.com (allexperts.com)
Ask an Expert Sites (www.k12science.org/askanexpert.html)
Electronic Emissary (emissary.wm.edu)
EPALS.com Classroom Exchange (www.epals.com)
ExpertCentral.com (expertcentral.com)
Mentor (www.mentoring.org)
The Nobel Channel (www.nobelchannel.com)
Pitsco’s Ask An Expert (www.askanexpert.com)
Online Robots
123-bots (www.123-bots.com)
Agentland (www.agentland.com)
Botspot (www.botspot.com)
Intelligent-Agents.com (www.intelligent-agents.com)
Example: SmarterChild (www.smarterchild.com)
Example: MySiteAgent (mysiteagent.com)
Smarthinking (www.smarthinking.com)
Tutor/Mentor Connection (www.tutormentorconnection.org)
Tutor.com (tutor.com)
Example: Sioux Falls School District Tutor List (www.sf.k12.sd.us/documents/tutorlist.doc)
Example: Laredo ISD Tutor Program (www.laredoisd.org/tutor)
Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)
Wiki Books (en.wikibooks.org)
Wiki Watch (www.weblogg-ed.com/newsItems/departments/wikiWatch)
Wiki Wiki Web (c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb)
Example: WorldHistory.com Wiki (www.worldhistory.com/wiki)
Example: Teachers’ Lounge Wiki (teacherslounge.editme.com)
Example: Swiki (coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/9)
Podcasting
Edupodder.com (www.edupodder.com)
The Podcast Directory (www.podcast.net)
iPodder.org (www.ipodder.org)
Podcasting 101 (radio.blogware.com/blog/Podcasting101)
Weblogg-ed (www.weblogg-ed.com)
Example: ESC From the World (www.matthewbischoff.com)
Direct Connect (www.neo-modus.com)
Freenet (freenet.sourceforge.net)
Groove (www.groove.net)
Waste (waste.sourceforge.net)
P2pnet.net (p2pnet.net)
Really Simple Syndication
RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators (www.weblogg-ed.com/rss_for_ed)
PubSub (www.pubsub.com)
FeedForAll (www.feedforall.com)
Bloglines (www.bloglines.com)
Pluck (www.pluck.com)
Example: Manheim Township School District (www.mtwp.net)
Firefox (www.getfirefox.com)
Spread Firefox (www.spreadfirefox.com)
Mozilla (www.mozilla.org)
NetCaptor (www.netcaptor.com)
Safari (www.apple.com/safari)
Macomb Intermediate School District’s Guide to Furl (www.misd.net/il/Docs/index.htm)
Guide to Using Furl (www.classroomhelp.com/workshop/furl_guide.pdf)
Visit My Class (www.visitmyclass.com/blogs/wenzloff)
Furl.net (www.furl.net)
Example: The Wenzloff Archive (www.furl.net/members/wenzloff)
Example: The Craig Nansen Archive (www.furl.net/members/craig_nansen)
Example: The Dyrli Archive (www.furl.net/members/dyrli)
Affinity Groups and Wikicities
Google Groups (www.googlegroups.com)
Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com)
Groups@AOL (groups.aol.com)
MSN Groups (groups.msn.com)
ICQ Groups (www.icq.com/groups)
Wikicities (www.wikicities.com)
Example: High School Online Collaborative Writing (schools.wikicities.com)
Atomic Learning (www.atomiclearning.com)
BrainPOP (www.brainpop.com)
Unitedstreaming (www.unitedstreaming.com)
Safari Video Networks (www.safarivideonetworks.com)
Example: Warren Consolidated Schools (www.wcs.k12.mi.us)
Example: Pasadena Unified School District (www.pusd.us)
Example: Dubuque Community Schools (www.dubuque.k12.ia.us)
Example: Marcus Whitman School District (ww2.mwcsd.k12.ny.us/pfletcher)
QuickTime Player (www.apple.com/quicktime)
RealPlayer/RealOne Player (www.real.com); RealPlayer/RealOne Guide (guide.real.com)
Windows Media Player (www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia ); WindowsMedia.com (windowsmedia.com)
American RadioWorks (americanradioworks.org)
8 Notes (www.8notes.com)
Boston Pete (www.bostonpete.com)
Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures (www.listeningadventures.org)
Entertainers of the USO (www.6thcorpsmusic.us)
Experience Music Project (www.emplive.com)
Lycos Music (music.lycos.com)
MP3.com (www.mp3.com)
Musica Viva (www.musicaviva.com)
Musicmatch Jukebox (musicmatch.com)
My Sheet Music (www.mysheetmusic.com)
PianoNanny (www.pianonanny.com)
Playmusic.org (www.playmusic.org)
Radio Lovers (www.radiolovers.com)
Radio@Netscape (radio.netscape.com)
Rhapsody (listen.com)
Songs for Teaching (www.songsforteaching.com)
Example: Capital Steps (www.capsteps.com)
Example: Mt. Carmel High School Band (www.mchsband.com)
Altavista Image (www.altavista.com/image)
Google Image Search (images.google.com)
Yahoo Image Search (images.yahoo.com)
Pics4Learning (www.pics4learning.com)
Teach With Cartoons (cagle.slate.msn.com/teacher)
Hubble Heritage Project (heritage.stsci.edu)
Film
The Greatest Films (www.filmsite.org)
The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.org)
IPIX Immersive Imaging (www.ipix.com)
TeachWithMovies.com (www.teachwithmovies.org)
AdTools ScreenMates (www.adtoolsinc.com)
Ananova Video Reports (www.ananova.com)
FunRanch.com (www.funranch.com)
George Newall’s Schoolhouse Rock Video (www.georgenewall.com/seminar.htm)
Greenland (www.greatestplaces.org/medias/media_html/qtvr.html)
Haptek.com (www.haptek.com)
Homemade Ipod Ad (wired.com/news/mediaplayer/0,2108,65996-mplay=choose,00.html)
Honda Accord Ad (www.steelcitysfinest.com/HondaAccordAd.htm)
HowStuffWorks Animation Tour (www.howstuffworks.com/at-1.htm)
Internet Archive Wayback Machine (www.archive.org)
Mars Rover Animation (www.maasdigital.com)
NaturePanoramas.com (www.naturepanoramas.com)
Olympics Humor (home.datacomm.ch/marco.fernando/fla/bozzetto/olympics.swf)
“Presidents” (www.colonize.com/warp)
Push.com Games (games.push.com)
Sodaplay (www.sodaplay.com)
Snowglobe (ww10.e-tractions.com/snowglobe/globe.htm)
Stob Tech (www.stobtech.com)
Visual Thesaurus (www.visualthesaurus.com)
The Virtual Body (www.ehc.com/vbody.asp)
The Flash “Mind Reader” (www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/mindread/mindread.html)
The “Color Test” (www.njagyouth.org/colortest.swf)
Standards Resources
Developing Educational Standards (edstandards.org/Standards.html)
StateStandards.com (www.statestandards.com)
AOL@School Lesson Plans (school.aol.com/teachers)
A to Z Teacher Stuff (atozteacherstuff.com)
Columbia Education Center (www.col-ed.org)
EdHelper.com (www.edhelper.com)
Lesson Planet (www.lessonplanet.com)
LessonPlansPage.com (www.lessonplanspage.com)
McREL Lesson Plans (www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans)
Microsoft Education Lesson Plans (www.microsoft.com/education)
Online Projects
Generation YES (www.genyes.org)
Global SchoolNet Foundation (www.globalschoolnet.org )
iEARN—International Education and Resource Network (www.iearn.org)
JASON Foundation for Education (www.jason.org)
KIDLINK/KIDPROJ (www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ)
NASA Quest (quest.arc.nasa.gov)
SitesALIVE! (www.sitesalive.com)
Teaching.com (www.teaching.com)
ThinkQuest (www.thinkquest.org)
Student Examples: Davidson County Schools Technology Center (techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us)
Class Examples: Mrs. Silverman’s Webfolio (kids-learn.org)
ABCTeach (www.abcteach.com)
APTE Puzzle Center (puzzles.apte.com)
Discovery School’s PuzzleMaker (www.puzzlemaker.com)
Filamentality (www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil)
Quia (quia.com)
SchoolExpress (www.schoolexpress.com)
The Science Spot (sciencespot.net)
Thematic Units (www.edhelper.com/cat301.htm)
Trackstar (trackstar.4teachers.org)
The WebQuest Page (webquest.sdsu.edu)
WebQuest Projects (projects.edtech.sandi.net/projects)
WWW4Teachers (www.4teachers.org)
Libraries and Museums
American Memory Historical Collections (memory.loc.gov)
American Museum of Natural History (www.amnh.org)
The Archaeology Channel (www.archaeologychannel.org)
Exploratorium (www.exploratorium.edu)
The Franklin Institute Online (www.fi.edu)
Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide (www.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm/sci.html)
The Internet Public Library (www.ipl.org)
The Library of Congress (lcweb.loc.gov)
Librarians’ Index to the Internet (lii.org)
Library Spot (www.libraryspot.com)
Museum Spot (www.museumspot.com)
MuseumStuff.com (www.museumstuff.com)
The Museum of Broadcast Communications (www.museum.tv)
The Museum of Television & Radio (www.mtr.org)
National Air and Space Museum (www.nasm.si.edu)
NARA, National Archives and Records Administration (www.nara.gov)
National Gallery of Art (www.nga.gov)
Smithsonian (www.si.edu)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (www.ushmm.org)
Schools on the Web
American School Directory (www.asd.com)
EduHound Schools on the Web (www.eduhoundschoolsontheweb.com)
GreatSchools.net (www.greatschools.net)
Hotlist of K-12 School Sites (www.edu-cyberpg.com/Schools)
Public Schools in the United States (www.uspublicschools.com)
General Curriculum
ABC-CLIO.com (abc-clio.com)
Awesome Library (www.awesomelibrary.org)
Beyond Books.com (www.beyondbooks.com)
Bonus.com (www.bonus.com)
BrainPOP (www.brainpop.com)
EDSITEment (edsitement.neh.fed.us)
Funschool.com (www.funschool.com)
Grade Level Gold (www.gradelevelgold.com)
How Stuff Works (www.howstuffworks.com)
iKnowthat.com (www.iknowthat.com)
B. J. Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper (school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck)
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (discoveryschool.com/schrockguide)
The Arts
Art Teacher on the Net (www.artmuseums.com)
ArtsAwards.org (www.artsawards.org)
ArtsConnectED (www.artsconnected.org)
ARTSEDGE (artsedge.kennedy-center.org)
ArtSiteNet (artsitenet.com)
Artsonia (www.artsonia.com)
Crayola Creativity Central (www.crayola.com)
Music Education Online (www.childrensmusicworkshop.com)
Music Education Resource Links (www.chapman.edu/soe/faculty/piper/cpiper/MERLmenu.htm)
Puppetry Home Page (www.sagecraft.com/puppetry)
Sapphire Swan Dance Directory (www.SapphireSwan.com/dance)
Language Arts and Literature
AskOxford.com (www.askoxford.com)
Bartleby.com (www.bartleby.com)
Bookadventure (www.bookadventure.com)
The Children’s Book Council (www.cbcbooks.org)
The Children's Literature Web Guide (www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown)
Kidsreads.com (www.kidsreads.com) and Teenreads.com (www.teenreads.com)
MidLink Magazine (longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink)
The Online Books Page (onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu)
The Purple Crayon (www.underdown.org)
Spaghetti Book Club (www.spaghettibookclub.org)
TeachingBooks.net (www.teachingbooks.net)
Mathematics
BoxerMath.com (www.boxermath.com)
Calculators On-Line Center (www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html)
ENC Online (www.enc.org)
ExploreLearning.com (www.explorelearning.com)
Hotmath (www.hotmath.com)
Math.com (www.math.com)
The Math Forum @ Drexel (mathforum.org)
Math Goodies (www.mathgoodies.com)
NCTM Illuminations (illuminations.nctm.org)
Science
eNature.com (www.enature.com)
ENC Online (www.enc.org)
Math and Science Gateway (www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway)
NASA Education Program (education.nasa.gov)
Science NetLinks (www.sciencenetlinks.com)
Space Educators' Handbook (vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh)
StudyWorks Online (www.studyworksonline.com)
TeachSpace (www.space.com/teachspace)
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet (yucky.kids.discovery.com)
Social Studies
CNN Student News (www.cnnstudentnews.com)
CountryWatch (www.countrywatch.com)
EconEdLink (www.econedlink.org)
EyeWitness to History (www.eyewitnesstohistory.com)
History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers (home.comcast.net/~dboals1)
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers (www.csun.edu/~hcedu013)
Practical Money Skills for Life (www.practicalmoneyskills.com)
Social Studies School Service (www.socialstudies.com)
Social Studies Sources (education.indiana.edu/~socialst)
Teaching with Documents (www.edteck.com/dbq)
Health/Nutrition/Physical Education
Healthtouch Online (www.healthtouch.com)
KidsHealth (www.kidshealth.org)
KidsRunning.com (www.kidsrunning.com)
MedlinePlus (www.medlineplus.gov)
Nutrition Navigator (navigator.tufts.edu/index.html)
PE Central (pecentral.org)
Sports Media (www.sports-media.org)
Student Research Resources
Ask Jeeves Kids (ajkids.com)
Britannica.com (www.britannica.com)
CyberSleuth Kids (cybersleuth-kids.com)
Fact Monster (www.factmonster.com)
Homework Help (www.about.com/homework)
HomeworkSpot (www.homeworkspot.com)
InfoPlease (www.infoplease.com)
iTools (www.itools.com)
KidsClick! (www.kidsclick.org)
Library Spot (www.libraryspot.com)
MSN Encarta (encarta.msn.com)
The National Student Research Center (youth.net/nsrc)
NetTrekker (www.nettrekker.com)
Refdesk.com (www.refdesk.com)
Yahooligans! The Web Guide for Kids (www.yahooligans.com)
Company/Organization Curriculum Collections
AOL@School (school.aol.com)
Apple Education (www.apple.com/education)
Apex Learning (www.apexlearning.com)
Classroom Connect (www.classroom.com)
CompassLearning (www.compasslearning.com)
Disney Online Edu-Station (Disney.go.com/educational)
FableVision (www.fablevision.com)
Family Education Network (fen.com)
Harcourt School Publishers (www.hbschool.com)
Houghton Mifflin “Education Place” (www.eduplace.com)
Macmillan McGraw-Hill (www.mmhschool.com)
Pearson Education (www.pearsoneducation.com)
Pitsco (www.pitsco.com)
Plato Learning (www.plato.com)
ProQuest K-12 (www.bigchalk.com)
Riverdeep (www.riverdeep.com)
Scholastic.com (www.scholastic.com)
Tom Snyder Productions (www.tomsnyder.com)
ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
C|net News.Com (news.com.com)
CNN.com (www.cnn.com)
CNN Student News (www.cnnstudentnews.com)
Google News (news.google.com)
MSNBC News (www.msnbc.msn.com)
NBCi (www.nbci.com)
The New York Times/Learning Network (www.nytimes.com/learning)
Newseum, The Interactive Museum of News (www.newseum.org)
NewsVoyager (www.newsvoyager.com)
Newsweek Education Program (school.newsweek.com)
Time for Kids.com (www.timeforkids.com)
USNewsclassroom.com (usnewsclassroom.com)
USA Today/K12 Education Online (www.usatoday.com/educate)
The Wall Street Journal/Classroom Edition (www.wsjclassroomedition.com)
WeeklyReader Online (www.weeklyreader.com)
Yahoo News (news.yahoo.com)
Television/Radio Media
A&E Classroom (www.aetv.com/class)
Annenberg/CPB Exhibits (www.learner.org/exhibits)
Biography.com (www.biography.com)
Book TV (www.booktv.org)
Cable in the Classroom (www.ciconline.org)
Cablevision Power to Learn (www.powertolearn.com)
Discovery.com (www.discovery.com)
DiscoverySchool.com (school.discovery.com)
ESPN.com (espn.go.com)
HBO Family (www.hbofamily.com)
The History Channel (www.thehistorychannel.com)
Nationalgeographic.com (www.nationalgeographic.com/education)
National Public Radio Online (www.npr.org)
Nickelodeon Teachers.Nick.Com (teachers.nick.com); Nick Jr.com (www.nickjr.com)
PBS Online (www.pbs.org); PBS Kids (pbskids.org); PBS TeacherSource (www.pbs.org/teachersource)
Sesame Workshop/SesameStreet.com (sesameworkshop.org)
The Weather Channel weather.com (weather.com)
Berit’s Best Sites for Children (www.beritsbest.com)
Bonus.com (bonus.com)
Cyberkids (www.cyberkids.com)
Fun-Attic (www.funattic.com)
FunBrain (www.funbrain.com)
Kaboose (www.kaboose.com)
KidsCom (www.kidscom.com)
MaMaMedia.com (www.mamamedia.com)
MSN Kidz (kids.msn.com)
WWW.4kids.org (www.4kids.org)
Information Indexes
Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com)
About.com (www.about.com)
Education Planet (www.educationplanet.com)
Education World (www.educationworld.com)
EduHound.com (www.eduhound.com)
Galaxy (www.galaxy.com)
Linkopedia (www.linkopedia.com)
StartSpot Network (www.startspot.com)
Search Engine Tools
A9 Search (www.a9.com)
Alltheweb (www.alltheweb.com)
AltaVista (www.altavista.com)
Answers.com (www.answers.com)
Ask Jeeves (www.ask.com)
Excite (www.excite.com)
Go.com (go.com)
Google (www.google.com)
Hotbot (www.hotbot.com)
InfoSpace (www.infospace.com)
LinkPopularity.com (www.linkpopularity.com)
LookSmart (www.looksmart.com)
Lycos (www.lycos.com)
Scirus (www.scirus.com)
Search.com (www.search.com)
SearchEdu (www.searchedu.com)
Search Engine Watch (www.searchenginewatch.com)
Teoma (www.teoma.com)
Twingine (www.twingine.com)—formerly YaGoohoogle
WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com)
Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)
MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com)
Administrators.Net (administrators.net)
Blackboard.com (www.blackboard.com)
Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (caret.iste.org)
Educational CyberPlayground (www.edu-cyberpg.com)
Educational Research Network (www.ernweb.com)
Educator’s Reference Desk (www.eduref.org) Note: former “AskERIC” resources
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (www.ed.gov/free)
Grants Web (www.srainternational.org/newweb/grantsweb)
Library in the Sky (www.nwrel.org/sky)
MIT OpenCourseWare (ocw.mit.edu)
National Center for Technology Planning (www.nctp.com)
National Center for Education Statistics (nces.ed.gov)
National Education Technology Plan (www.nationaledtechplan.org)
Network of Regional Technology in Education Consortia (www.rtec.org)
Professional Teacher.com (www.professionalteacher.com)
SchoolGrants (www.schoolgrants.org)
Sites for Teachers (www.sitesforteachers.com)
TeachersFirst.com (www.teachersfirst.com)
Teachers.Net (www.teachers.net)
TeacherVision (www.teachervision.com)
Teachnet.com (www.teachnet.com)
The U. S. Department of Education (www.ed.gov)
Theory into Practice (tip.psychology.org)
W3 Schools (www.w3schools.com)
Connecting With Professional Organizations Online
-AASA, American Association of School Administrators (www.aasa.org)
-AASL, American Association of School Librarians (www.ala.org/aasl)
-ACEI, Association for Childhood Education International (www.acei.org)
-ACTFL, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (www.actfl.org)
-AECT, Association for Educational Communications & Technology (aect.org)
-AERA, American Educational Research Association (www.aera.net)
-AESA, Association of Educational Service Agencies (www.aesa.us)
-AFT, American Federation of Teachers (www.aft.org)
-ALA, American Library Association (www.ala.org)
-ASCA, American School Counselor Association (www.schoolcounselor.org)
-ASCD, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (www.ascd.org)
-CEC, Council for Exceptional Children (www.cec.sped.org)
-CUE, Computer-Using Educators (www.cue.org)
-CoSN, Consortium for School Networking (www.cosn.org)
-IRA, International Reading Association (www.reading.org)
-ISTE, International Society for Technology in Education (www.iste.org)
-ITEA, International Technology Education Association (www.iteawww.org)
-MENC, The National Association for Music Education (www.menc.org)
-NAESP, National Association of Elementary School Principals (www.naesp.org)
-NAEA, National Art Education Association (www.naea-reston.org)
-NAEYC, National Association for the Education of Young Children (www.naeyc.org)
-NAGC, National Association for Gifted Children (www.nagc.org)
-NASPE, National Association for Sport and Physical Education (www.aahperd.org/naspe)
-NASSP, National Association of Secondary School Principals (www.nassp.org)
-NBEA, National Business Education Association (www.nbea.org)
-NCSS, National Council for the Social Studies (www.ncss.org)
-NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English (www.ncte.org)
-NCTM, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (www.nctm.org)
-NEA, National Education Association (www.nea.org)
-NMSA, National Middle School Association (www.nmsa.org)
-NSBA, National School Boards Association (www.nsba.org)
-NSTA, National Science Teachers Association (www.nsta.org)
-PTA, National Parent Teacher Association (www.pta.org)
-USDLA, United States Distance Learning Association (www.usdla.org)