Beyond Subject and Content
Categories of information you might find on the web
Only a Sampling





Web Tutorials

 Miami Museum of Science - Internet Island
 http://www.miamisci.org/ii/
A wonderful resource developed by the Miami Museum of Science. Teaches students how to use the internet within a story context. Suggestions for student grouping and facilitator notes are provided.

Entering the WWW: Guide to Cyberspace
http://www.eit.com/web/www.guide
Lessons explaining the history and use of the Internet and WWW.

BCK2SKOL Lessons
http://web.csd.sc.edu/bck2skol/fall/
A New Class on the Net for Librarians with Little or No Net Experience

Patrick Crispen's RoadMaps96
http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/roadmap96/
The course offers 27 self-paced and very entertaining lessons to help you learn your away around the net as painlessly as possible.

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Personal Home Pages, Theme, Hobby, Entertainment, & Commercial Ventures


The Froggy Page
 http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/sjl/froggy.html

Chocolate Lover's Page - Links to many other chocolate sites!
Http://bc.emanon.net/chocolate

Hersey Foods Corp.
http://www.microserve.net/~hershey/welcome.html

Godiva Chocolate
http://www.godiva.com

The Happy Chocolate Company
Http://kato.theramp.net/chocolate

Illusionworks
http://www.illusionworks.com/

American Fidelity's Education World
http://www.education-world.com/

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Non-Profit Organizations, Government & Education Agencies


Rainforest Action Network
 http://www.ran.org

Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/

FedWorld Information Network
http://www.fedworld.gov/

Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/

PBS OnLine
http://www.pbs.org/

The Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/newstart.htm

The Whitehouse
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html

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Services


Weather Channel
 http://www.weather.com

USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/

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Virtual Tours - Zoos


Birmingham Zoo
 http://www.bhm.tis.net/zoo/

San Diego Zoo
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/Zoo/zoo.html

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
http://www.cincyzoo.org/

National Zoo
http://www.si.edu/natzoo/

To see a list of zoos visit: YaHoo List of Zoos
http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Zoology/Zoos/

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Schools & Universities


Horry County Schools, South Carolina
 http://www.hcs.k12.sc.us/

L'Ouverture Computer Technology Magnet
http://www.louverture.com/index.html

Web 66: A World Wide Web K-12 Project
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
Interactive Map with school sites and other links


University, Centers, Research & Reports


College and University Home Page
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
Locate any college or university with a web page.

The OnLine Writery
http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/writery.html
Devoted to establishing communication amoung writers. Links to writing tools and other writing sites.

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Special Education- Organizations & Hotlists

Federal Resource Center for Special Education
 http://www.aed.org/special.ed/frc.html

Internet Resources for Special Educators
http://specialed.miningco.com

NCIPnet
http://www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP
National Center to Improve Practice promotes effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with disabilities. Features an on-line discussion group.

Office of Special Education at the University of Virginia
http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/specialed/

Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
http://www.hood.edu/seri/serihome.htm

Special Education Branch
http://www.educ.gov.bc.ca/.specialed/www/awareness/contents.html

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General Education --Hotlists --

ED Web: Exploring Education Technology & School Reform
 http://edweb.gsn.org/
Annotated hotlist of education links related to reform.

Educator's Toolkit
http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/
links to many educational resources including a long list of links for lesson plans.

Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/Activity-Structures/
Theoretical framework for internet based activities and links to curriculum activities.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/
Includes Education Hotlists, Guides for teaching the Internet and information on Search Engines and Directories, excellent and up-to-date.

The Learning Studio - the Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/index.html
The Exploratorium presents ten cool science, art, and education sites for February. Also visit 22 categories with over 200 annotated sites. New lists each month!!

Mustang, A Web Cruising Vehicle
http://mustang.coled.umn.edu/
Hierarchy of activities for involving students in web projects

Switched on Classroom
http://www.swcouncil.org/switch2.html
Plans for creating a long-range technology plan. Includes case studies, curriculum integration, staff development, equipment acquisition, and funding.

World Wide Web - Resources for Teachers
http://www.spokane.net/kidzone/tchrlink.html
Another hotlist of many resources.


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Software & Pictures - download the real thing or demos


Web Buddy by DataViz -- web page capture
 http://www.dataviz.com/Products/WebBuddy/WB_Home.html

Web Whacker by ForeFront - web page capture
http://www.ffg.com

Reading Rodent
Http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/software/
Add speech to your Mac.

Smithsonian Image Database
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~kelly/si.images/all.html
Great selection of professional images but beware-- images are listed in their file format, you can decipher some of the images by their category; categories include: people-places; air-space; science-nature; new-photo-uploads; & tech-history.

Kids Web
http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/
A World Wide Web Digital Library for Schoolkids

Spelling Bee
Http://www.spellingbee.com
Hints on preparing for spelling bees!

Science and Technology - Get Real
http://www.wpt.org/getreal!/
This is a Wisconsin Public TV show for kids and it has links to stories with pictures and also with large nice readable font for kids. ideas for: mammals, waves, photosynthesis, puerto rico.

Sharable Resources
Http://www.coe.uh.edu/archive
an archive of sharable resources for education!!!

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Journals:


Electronic Learning
 http://place.scholastic.com/el/index.htm

Internation Society of Technology Education
http://isteonline.uoregon.edu/
Learning and Leading with Technology (formerly The Computer Teacher)
http://www.lc.tut.ac.jp/nozawa/ISTE.html

T.H.E. Journal
http://www.thejournal.com/index.html


Technology and Learning
http://www.techlearning.com:80/www/tnlcat/@025168xfyzqc/index.html
Includes SEARCHABLE software review

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Lessons & Standards


AskEric
 http://ericir.syr.edu
Lesson Plans and Other Teacher Tools

Explorer Curriculum Units
http://server2.greatlakes.k12.mi.us/
Lesson plans and teacher resources

North Carolina's Teacher Resource Center
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/tchrsrccntr.html
North Carolina's Curriculum guides, lessons plan for math & technology

SCR-TEC
http://www.scrtec.org
Tools to help teacher integrate the WWW. Check out TRACKSTAR, a tool to create web-based lessons.

McREL - Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.mcrel.org
Resources on education. Searchable databases of standards and benchmarks

Michigan Dept of Education
http://cdp.mde.state.mi.us/info/standards.html
list of web links for curriculum development, with links for other states.

Florida Sunshine State Standards
http://www.firn.edu/doe/menu/sss.htm
Addresses the new state plan



South Carolina Department of Education
http://www.state.sc.us/sde/index.htm
Includes information on current educational reports, state testing and Science and Language Arts Standards

Two examples of specific units:

Habitat Network: Animal Study
http://monticello.avenue.gen.va.us/Community/Environ/EnvironEdCenter/Habitat/AnimalStudy/Animal/AnimalHomePage.HTML

Chocolate Thematic Unit
http://server2.greatlakes.k12.mi.us/UNITEResource/827532906-81ED7D4C.rsrc
Just an example of integrating something fun with educational outcomes. This lesson is available for downloading.


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This page was last updated by Dr. Cheryl Wissick on 2/10/97. Send additional resources to:
CherylW@ed.sc.edu