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Internet Sites for Educators
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Technology
Lists of Useful Education Links
Educational Links
HTML Tutorial.
w3schools.com
Learn how to program computers.
http://www.wikihow.com/Start-Learning-Computer-Programming
Internet4Classrooms.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
Bloomberg Technology Info.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/technology/
Art, Museums, Architecture
Wikipedia on Fine Art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art
FineArte's Guide to art schools.
http://www.finearte.com/
MIT newsletter for
Interactive Arts & New Media.
http://www.intelligent-agent.com/
ArtsWire features
news updates on social, economic an political issues affecting the arts.
Great site!
http://www.artswire.org/
Americans for the Arts
seeks to attract more private and public funding for the arts.
http://www.artsusa.org/
The Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture represents 150 institutions in the U.S. and Canada.
http://www.acsa-arch.org/
ArtsEdge supports the arts as a core subject in the K-12 curriculum.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
Crayola Art Education with art projects, techniques and more.
http://www.crayola.com/art_education/
Open Studio links
to all kinds of arts sites.
http://www.openstudio.org/sites.html
World Wide Arts Resources:
A huge "gateway to the arts."
http://wwar.com/
Design/Graphics
Wikipedia on Graphic Design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_design
The American Institute
of Graphic Arts promotes excellence in graphic design.
http://www.aiga.org/
Tessellalation Times, from 3D Artist Magazine.
http://www.3dartist.com/
Music
Wikipedia on Music History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_history
Scientific research (references & abstracts) on music as related to behavior, the brain and allied fields.
http://www.musica.uci.edu
The American Music Conference promotes music, music making and music education.
http://www.amc-music.com/
The Music Educators National Conference Web site.
http://www.menc.org/
The Worldwide Internet Music Resources meta-list, hosted by the University of Indiana. Great classification scheme.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Jobs for Teachers
Jobs for Teachers
www.educationdegree.com
Career Resource Center - comprehensive career site.
www.educationdegree.com
Career Profiles -- career and job search info.
http://www.careerprofiles.info/
Online career magazine
that includes education-related content.
http://www.careermag.com/
QuestMatch will match
college students with prospective employers, focusing on accounting, engineering
or information systems.
http://www.questmatch.com/
teachercertificationdegrees.com - Job connections
http://www.teachercertificationdegrees.com/
Resource site for college students.
http://www.allcampus.com/
The Financial Aid Information
Page is loaded with good advice.
http://www.finaid.org/
FastWEB, the Internet's largest free scholarship search service.
http://www.fastweb.com/
The Princeton Review,
resources for those preparing for SAT, GRE, LSAT and other standardized
tests.
http://www.review.com
CareerWeb for job
seekers.
http://www.findhow.com/career/education/education-education-teachers.php
Research Sites for Educators
EPICENTER provides descriptions
of educational software and summaries of research journal articles, for
all school subjects.
http://www.epicent.com/
Educational Software Institute:
a large distributor.
http://www.edsoft.com/
Little Explorers is a picture dictionary with links, for youngsters.
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html
TheAP features hot-off-the-press news, from over 100 AP member publications.
http://wire.ap.org/
MiddleWeb focuses
on middle schools while being rich in quality content and links.
http://www.middleweb.com/
The National Park Service's
Tools for Teaching page includes museums, historical resources and more.
Teachers.Net is an
excellent site, with an online reference desk, active chat board and lesson
plan exchange.
http://www.teachers.net/
PedagoNet lets educators
find or request resource materials. A grade-specific chat room facilitates
peer communication.
http://www.pedagonet.com/
Find news sites and newspapers
from around the globe.
http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html#usa
Student.Net is a quirky,
but hip site for college students, with personals, popular culture, etc.
http://www.student.net/
A cool site aimed at University
students.
http://www.internetuniv.com/
National Geographic's
Home Page, with live Web events.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html
Apple Computer's starting
spot for educators.
http://education.apple.com/
Cisco Educational Archives,
a huge site, includes article, "Going to School on the Internet".
http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/
CNN, Internet Newsroom,
Library & Worldview, great resource for audio & video clips.
K-12 World.
http://www.k12world.com
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) Education Site.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/EduHome.html
Humanities
Wikipedia on the Humanities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities
National Endowment for the
Humanities.
http://www.neh.gov/
Humanities in the classroom.
http://www.onlineclasses.org/2013/01/07/humanities-in-the-classroom-the-greatest-neh-sponsored-apps-2012/
The Freedom Forum, a
major supporter of journalism education.
http://www.freedomforum.org/
Teachers and Writers Collaborative
page.
http://www.twc.org/
Art.Net Links: Literature
References with full descriptions.
http://www.art.net/Links/litref.html
The Internet Classics
Archive, with almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts.
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
(Who said What?).
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
World Culture, Languages
Cultures of the Andes:
music, photos, poems and stories.
http://www.andes.org/
Cultural Survival helps
indigenous peoples and ethnic groups in their relations with national and
international societies.
http://www.cs.org/
British Historical Archetecture
http://www.pastforward.co.uk
Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Teaching ESL.
http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2012/why-grads-should-take-a-gap-year-to-teach-esl/
History
Wikipedia on World History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_history
Social Studies Lesson Plans
and Resources.
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/
Archiving Early America
has original newspapers, maps and writings from 18th century America.
http://earlyamerica.com/
Exploring Ancient World
Cultures on the Web.
http://eawc.evansville.edu/www/index.htm
EuroDocs features
links to primary historical documents from Western Europe.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
The Monarchs of England
and Great Britain get their own Web page.
http://www.ingress.com/~gail/
An extremely detailed look
at Archaic and Classical Greek history.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Secondary/TRM_Overview/
Library of Hindu History,
from Ancient to Modern times.
http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/
Reeder's Egypt Page:
all about Egyptology, this site was awarded by Discovery Channel.
http://www.egyptology.com/reeder/
Language Arts
The Freedom Forum, a
major supporter of journalism education.
http://www.freedomforum.org/
Teachers and Writers Collaborative
page.
http://www.twc.org/
The Internet Classics
Archive, with almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts.
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
(Who said What?).
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
Special Education
Wikipedia on Special Education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_education
LD OnLine is a guide
to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children.
http://www.ldonline.org/
The American Printing
House for the Blind provides special media, tools and materials needed
for education and life.
http://www.aph.org/
The Council for Exceptional Children's Home Page.
http://www.cec.sped.org/
Indie contains over
5,000 links useful to teachers working with disabled students, including
adaptive technology, government, rehabilitation and more.
www.onlineschools.org/resources/guide-mental-retardation/
Special Education
links to a myriad of resources including legislation, ADD and more.
http://members.aol.com/LCantlin/se_links.htm
C.H.A.D.D. Online:
Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. The parent-based ADD
organization.
http://www.chadd.org/
Special education,
an overview of its history, the laws, definitions of disabilities &
availability of online medical journals.
http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/specialed/
Distance Learning
Wikipedia on Distance Education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_education
Telelearning resources
and links, from a Calif. Sept. of Education project
http://www.telis.org/
E-mail Pal Projects
worldwide.
http://www.kidlink.org/
Sites ALIVE! is a
new series of live, interdisciplinary learning adventures.
http://www.sitesalive.com
Jason Project Home Page
with audio, video and more.
http://www.jasonproject.org/
CCCNet has online
projects, teacher links and more. Cool site!
http://www.cccnet.com/
onlinephdprogram.org/
Free advice and Support for Online PhD Programs
Weather Information
Weather.com
http://www.weather.com
The Automated Weather
Source Nationwide School Weather Network.
http://aws.com/
The Aurora Page: Pictures,
links and info on this atmospheric phenomenon.
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/
Intellicast has current
weather, presented in frames.
http://www.intellicast.com/
Earthview, look at
our planet from every which way.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
Florida Explores,
direct readout & Internet weather data for K-12 classrooms.
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/explores.html
National Weather Service's
site has warnings, forecasts, data and maps.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
The Weather Channel - Includes TV schedule and weather news.
http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc
Weather Underground
Long Beach weather inofo.
http://www.wunderground.com/weather-forecast/US/CA/Long_Beach.html
Sites with Education Links
HUGE Education-oriented
search engine.
http://www.education-world.com/
Sun Software, Information
and Technology Exchange
http://www.sun.com/sunsite/
HUGE Campus and Online Masters in Education Programs.
http://www.mastersineducation.com/
Homeschool Resources on
the Web is an awesome links site suited for all educators.
http://www.mint.net/~caronfam/links.htm
Yahoo's Education index.
http://www.yahoo.com/Education/tree.html
Sites for Students
Microsoft's Education
pages have information on products, pricing and partners.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/
A serious look at "Bad
Science" being taught in several disciplines.
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html
MainFunction is a
resource for teachers and students of computer programming.
http://www.mainfunction.com/
The ChemTeam's chemistry
tutorial site has in-depth information on high school and advanced
placement chemistry.
ChemTeamIndex
The premiere gathering place
for Bots of all kinds on the Net.
http://www.botspot.com/
The National Archives
and Records Administration's site.
http://www.nara.gov/
The Digital Links is a
'zine for art educators, from The Art Teacher Connection.
http://www.primenet.com/~arted/
Government, Policy
Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/
Patents, a project
of the Internet Patent News Service.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html
Thomas, Legislative Information
from Library of Congress.
http://thomas.loc.gov
U.S. Dept. of Education.
http://www.ed.gov/index.html
U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office.
http://www.uspto.gov/
University of Michigan
Document Center links to government documents currently in the news,
like pending legislation & department press releases.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/docnews.html
Ed-Tech Alert supports
technology funding and planning.
http://www.edtech-alert.com
Available grants &
grant-writing info.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/ors1.html
Benton Foundation,
for arts funding.
http://www.benton.org/
Council of Foundations.
http://www.cof.org
"Distance Learning Funding
Sourcebook."
http://www.technogrants.com
Federal Information Exchange,
useful for locating research grants for minority colleges.
http://www.fie.com
Federal Register online,
the official source.
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/index.html
Foundations, another
hub.
http://www.foundations.org
George Lucas Educational
Foundation, seeks to improve teaching & learning via multimedia.
http://glef.org/
Henry Moore Foundation,
for arts funding.
http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/hmf/
Info on federal programs,
interest rates, deferments, etc.
http://www.tgslc.org/
National Endowment for
the Arts.
http://www.nea.org/
National Science Foundation,
a grant powerhouse!
http://www.nsf.gov/
The Foundation Center,
a good starting spot.
http://fdncenter.org/
Math
Wikipedia on the History of Mathematics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics
The Fractory teaches
all about fractals.
http://tqd.advanced.org/3288/
History of Mathematics
includes mathematician biographies, chronologies and more. Cool Site!
Stories and activities
for K-12 students, presented by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/
Plane Math features
cool things about math and aeronautics.
http://www.planemath.com/
The Math Forum - Ask Dr.
Math: an interactive Q&A.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/
The Eisenhower National
Clearinghouse for mathematics and science education.
http://enc.org/
The Mathematics Archives
are classified into five main categories, and searchable.
http://archives.math.utk.edu/
The Math Forum Home
Page.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
PBS Mathline: elementary,
middle and high school math projects.
http://www.pbs.org/learn/mathline/
The Abacus: a Java-based
virtual abacus.
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/
WWW Virtual Library
on mathematics.
http://www.math.fsu.edu/Science/math.html
Museums
Wikipedia's List Of World Museums
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums
The J. Paul Getty Museum
site includes exhibits and other cultural information.
http://www.getty.edu
The Los Angeles County
Museum of Arts gives virtual visitors QuickTime interviews, exhibitions
and more.
http://www.lacma.org/
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art includes a section devoted to education, with programs, resources,
indexes and more.
http://www.metmuseum.org/
Museum of Modern Art in
New York City. Great design and good coverage of paintings, sculptures,
drawings and photographs.
http://www.moma.org/
Museum Info Museums in the United Kingdom.
http://www.nmaa.si.edu/
The National Museum of
Photography, Film & Television (UK) -- collection, conservation
& history of these media.
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/
Educational Organizations
The Foundation for Independent
Higher Education Network is your link to over 600 private colleges
& universities in the U.S.
http://www.fihe.org
The United Nations' CyberSchoolBus,
with projects and more.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
The Electronic Frontier
Foundation: preserve your Internet rights.
http://www.eff.org/
Iris: a global Online
community of educators, for student-centered telecommunications
projects.
http://www.tmn.com/Organizations/Iris/home.html
The Association for Educational
Communications and Technology links professionals holding a common
interest in the use of educational technology and its application to the
learning process.
http://www.aect.org/
The American Library Association's
Home Page is here.
http://www.ala.org/
ITEA, International Technology
Education Association.
http://www.tmn.com/Organizations/Iris/ITEA.html
League for Innovation
in the Community College.
http://www.league.org/
National Center for Technology
Planning.
http://www2.msstate.edu/~lsa1/nctp/index.html
National Consortium for
School Networking.
http://cosn.org
National Information Center
for Educational Media (NICEM), info on non-print media covering pre-school
to post-graduate levels in all academic areas.
http://www.nicem.com/
National Science Foundation.
http://www.nsf.gov/
National Science Teachers
Association.
http://www.nsta.org
National Standards for
Arts Education, from American Music Educators.
http://www.amc-music.com
SIGGRAPH (Special Interest
Group GRAPHics), sponsors annual conference & more.
http://www.siggraph.org/
Society for Architectural
Historians, at Univ. of Pa.
http://www.upenn.edu/sah/
Society for Industrial
& Applied Mathematics, exchange ideas about the use of math in
industry.
http://www.siam.org
Software Publishers Association,
lots for educators including education software statistics, legislative
news & more.
http://www.spa.org
Science
Wikipedia on the History of Science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science
Healthfinder is a
consumer health and human services information web site from the government.
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
The Natural Gas Information
and Educational Resources site.
http://www.naturalgas.org/
The Dinosauria: dispelling
dinosaur myths.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html
Science and Engineering
Network News, links to online journals, software archives, image databases
and more.
http://www.senn.com/
Hands-On Science Centers
Worldwide.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/mwm/www/sci.html
Fisher Science Education
Site Explorer lets you search 5,000+ sites.
http://www.fisheredu.com/
Science Learning Network.
http://www.sln.org/
Optics for Kids explains
properties of light in kid-oriented ways.
http://www.opticalres.com/kidoptx.html
Environment, Earth
Earthquake info from
the US Geology Service.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/
Java-enabled page with volcano
animations and more.
http://205.240.248.235/
Locate recent seismic
activity worldwide along with general and local area maps.
http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/quake.html
Edu-Source. Environmental
Resources for Education, download dozens of free posters or read about
suggested outdoor activities for kids.
http://www.edu-source.com/
Arctic Circle Region,
an in-depth look at social and environmental concerns.
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/
GLOBE, where students,
teachers and scientists worldwide work together for environmental education.
http://www.globe.gov/
The GeoTouch Project,
an environmental education project involving schools worldwide.
http://www.kids-commons.net/geotouch/GeoTouch.html
Space, Astronomy
National Space Society
Online.
http://www.nss.org/
Space News is an independent,
newsweekly of the international space community.
http://www.spacenews.com/
The Project Galileo
Home Page: Bringing Jupiter to Earth.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/
Stars and Galaxies:
information on how stars behave.
http://www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html
Outer Space Surveillance - Site with many space education links
http://www.surveillance-video.com/outer-space-surveillance-july-2012.html
Astronomy Cams - Site with links to various live action astronomy cams
Astronomy cams">
The Educational Space
Simulations Project.
http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Simulations/simserver.html
Windows to the Universe
presents astrology and space science in a neat atmosphere.
http://www.windows.umich.edu/
www.surveillance-video.com/astronomy-sept-2009.html
Biology, Chemistry
WhaleNet is packed with
information, cool activities and tons of resources.
http://whale.wheelock.edu/
The BioQUEST Curriculum
Consortium supports educators interested in the reform of undergraduate
biology.
http://www.beloit.edu/~bquest/
Access Excellence gives
high school biology teachers access to their colleagues, scientists and
critical sources of new scientific information over the 'Net.
http://www.gene.com/ae/
Eric's Treasure Trove
of Chemistry, an excellent reference guide.
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/chem/
Human Anatomy On-line
is fun and easy to use, with nice graphics and anatomy lessons.
http://www.innerbody.com/
National Library of Medicine
project producing anatomically detailed, 3D representations of the male
and female human body.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
CELLs Alive! looks
good, contains tons of cool stuff.
http://www.cellsalive.com/
Yuckiest Site on the Internet:
Bug World, Worm World and more.
http://www.nj.com/yucky/
Chemistry for Kids,
aimed at all grade levels.
http://144.92.39.64/ice/forkids.html
Chem4Kids is surprisingly
comprehensive.
http://members.aol.com/chem4kids/index.html
Social Sciences
Policy.com covers
national and international issues.
http://www.policy.com/
American Identities:
with links to various ethnic studies resources.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/ethnic.html
International Economics
Gateway, linking to organizations, governments and more.
http://www.access.digex.net/%7Egrimes/gate.html
Variables, contains
news & analysis of legal issues relating to cyberspace, including copyright,
the Communications Decency Act & more.
http://www.ggtech.com/facts.html#aclu
Social Science Research
Network Online.
http://www.ssrn.com/index.html
FedWorld, links to
government resources.
http://www.fedworld.gov/
All Politics.
http://www.allpolitics.com/
Bloomberg Politics.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/politics/
Minority Studies
K-12 Electronic Guide for
African Resources.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html
Women's history, with
lessons and exercises.
http://socialstudies.com/mar/women.html
The Victorian Women Writers
Project.
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
American minority studies
links.
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/cwis/cwis.html
Girls Claiming Science,
hosted by the Emma Willard School.
http://www.emma.troy.ny.us/symposium.html
Anthropology, Archeology
Archaeology: A Primer
for Families.
http://www.uwlax.edu/Colleges/mvac/arched/aaarch.htm
PaleoNet is a system
of listservs, Web pages and FTP sites for paleontologists that also has
an extensive links section.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/Paleonet/
Web Authoring Resources
Wikipedia on HTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
Technical information on
the Web itself.
http://www.webreference.com/
All the tags for HTML
3.2, in many different languages.
http://werbach.com/barebones/
Virtual Library of WWW
development, with subcategories including Authoring, Multimedia, Reference,
Software and more.
http://www.stars.com/Vlib/
PC Magazine's Internet
Toolkit Web stylesheet page.
http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/iu/toolkit/stylesheets.htm
Tips on scanning,
including how to scan 3D objects!
http://www.hsdesign.com/scanning/welcome.html
This commercial site has
reams of information for aspiring Web creators.
http://www.webreference.com/
Great tips for beginners
and experts alike.
http://www.acute.com/promote/graphics/1toolbox.htm
Good page with a lot of HTML-related
info, tips and links.
http://www.ecnet.net/users/mupmw7/html.htm
This page teaches some basics
like adding animation, graphics, VRML and more.
http://www.pimall.com/nais/n.web.tips.html
Internet Design and Publishing
Center.
http://www.graphic-design.com/
Offline Web Tools
for Windows 95.
http://www.windows95.com/apps/offline.html
Teaching and Learning Resources
College Board Online,
for the college-bound.
http://www.collegeboard.org
"Structures" includes
lesson plans & ideas, an oft-cited reference.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/Activity-Structures/Harris-Activity-Structures.html
PBS Teacher Connex:
detailed info on instructional television and curriculum integration.
http://www.pbs.org/learn/tconnex/index.html
Discovery Channel
http://www.discovery.com
Looking for Congress info?
Here's where you start.
http://policy.net/
JINX is a safe and
fun Internet hangout for kids.
http://www.jinx.com
Kidz WebRing, gateway
to 400+ kid-created sites, with more added weekly.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6188/kidz.htm
Various Other Education Sites
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