- Histories of the Internet
The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).
- A Brief History of the Internet
Walt Howe provides this anecdotal history of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web.
- Email Projects
This collection of projects from the Outreach and Technical Assistance Network are all focused on e-mail as a tool for collaboration and communication.
- Epals: Where Learners Connect
ePALS Classroom Exchange® maintains the Internet's largest community of collaborative classrooms engaged in cross-cultural exchanges, project sharing and language learning
- International E-Mail Classroom Connections
IECC is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures. They've connected tens of thousands of educators in the past. Not a good resource for finding keypals for students, but great for teachers to correspond with other educators from different cultures.
- Teacher Forums
The forums at A-Zteacherstuff.com are broken down by grade level, discipline, and topic. The forums seem fairly active and have hundreds of posts to browse on various topics of interest to teachers.
- Teachers.Net: The Ultimate Teacher Resource
Teachers.net includes an excellent collection of resources, including a collection of mail lists, forums (chatboards) and free lessons and projects.
- Teacher Listservs
Theteachersguide.com includes this large collection of listservs focused on different aspects of education. No matter what your discipline or interest, you can find a listserv here.
- Videoconferencing for Learning
AT&T offers this page on videoconferencing for learning. Everything you wanted to know, including tips and tricks, project ideas, and technical information about videoconferencing.
- Eduhound: Classrooms on the Web
Eduhound is a collection of links to other classrooms on the web sorted by state. The interface isn't the best, but it's one of the only collections like it on the internet!
- Busy Educator Award Winning Sites
This page is a large collection of sites that are helpful for busy educators, and also has a great collection of links BY busy educators who have created classroom websites!
- Search Engine Reviews
Searchenginewatch.com offers this collection of reviews and resources for a bit of a technical look at Search engines, how they work, and their search returns.
- Search Engine Showdown
Search Engine Showdown is aptly named! The website offers a users' guide to Web searching, compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher's perspective. Developed originally as a way to keep track of search engine features and search capabilities and to share that information with others, the site has grown to include features charts, search engine analysis and reviews, and more!
- The Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.
- How Stuff Works: The Internet
A visual description of how the computers connect to the Internet and communicate over the Web.
- The Discovery Channel's Education Site
Discovery School provides Ideas for using the Internet in teaching as well as links to other sites.
- Google Groups
Google's list of newsgroups on any topic.
- Education-Related Newsgroups FAQ
A discussion and list of links to education related newgroups.
- Education and the Net
Discussion and links to an assortment of educational resources on the Net including FTP sites and newsgroups.
- Networking the K-12 Classroom
An eclectic site that's loaded with hands-on activities, philosophical paradoxes and plenty of ideas for classroom teachers on using the Internet.
- The World Wide Web Security FAQ
This is a question-and-answer site on Internet security issues.
- Netiquette
A "must visit" page that teaches users the necessary and important skills of Internet etiquette.
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