Links of Interest

Online Publications Sites

http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
Ed Week
The goal of edweek is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among the teaching community and the public of important issues in education. The site covers cover local, state, and national news for K-12 audiences.

http://www.eduref.org/
The Educator’s Reference Desk
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

http://www.techlearning.com/
TechLearning
Techlearning.com’s online magazine with a wide variety of resources for teachers using the Internet

http://www.thejournal.com
Technological Horizons in Education
Technological Horizons in Education’s online magazine features research, product news and conference listings.

Online Organizations

http://www.aace.org/
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education’s home page. Great resources for educators looking for ideas and resources for using technology in the classroom.

http://www.aect.org
Association for Educational Communications and Technology
The mission of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology is to provide international leadership by promoting scholarship and best practices in the creation, use, and management of technologies for effective teaching and learning in a wide range of settings.

http://www.nea.org
National Association Education
The National Association Education exists to promote excellence in Public Education. The web site offers information, resources, and more.

http://www.ala.org
American Library Association
The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, promoting the highest quality library and information services and public access to information.

Education Blogs (Edblogs)

http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/
Educational Blogger Network
eBN is a collaborative of teachers and organizations using weblogs in education. Its purpose is to help its members, kindergarten through university, to access and use weblog technology for the teaching of writing and reading across the disciplines.

http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
Weblogg-Ed: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom
This site is dedicated to discussions and reflections on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, audiocasts and other Read/Write Web related technologies in the K-12 realm, technologies that are transforming classrooms around the world.

http://educational.blogs.com/edbloggerpraxis/
EdBlogger
Find Examples of Educator Blogs Online. Participate and comment. Educators who blog or podcast can submit their feeds to help make the resource even more effective.

Education Portals

http://www.aolatschool.com/
AOL at School
“Built for primary, elementary, middle school and high school classes, AOL@SCHOOL presents the best K-12 education content on the Internet. Search the database of educator-reviewed online resources to quickly find teaching activities, lesson plans, learning games, tutorials, research materials and multimedia resources.”

http://www.educating.net/
Educating.net: A Portal to the World of Knowledge
Education portal for all quality educational services on the Internet, including distance education, home schooling, K-12, college & university, professional re-training, continuing education, fun learning and more.

http://www.educationworld.com/
Education World
One of the premiere educational portals on the web. Lesson plans, links, resources, and information geared toward the educator.

http://www.teach-nology.com/
Teachnology
We provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students.

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic21.htm
List of Education Portals and Starting Points
An incredible website that lists the best education portals and also has a good collection of subject specific links.

Online Academic Resources

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
New York Time’s Education Portal
New York Times’ education portal targets the news to the classroom, and also provides tons of resources and tools for educators doing research on current events.

http://www.britannica.com/
Encyclopedia Britannica’s online resources
Need we say more? A great resource for research.

http://encarta.msn.com
Encarta
Encarta is Microsoft’s online collection of academic resources, including encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and much more. It’s a reference library online!

http://www.dictionary.com
Online Dictionary
Dictionary.com has all the language tools you’ll need. Dictionary, thesaurus, and you can sign up for an e-mail word of the day!

Keypals

http://www.epals.com
ePALS Classroom Exchange
ePALS Classroom Exchange® maintains the Internet's largest community of collaborative classrooms engaged in cross-cultural exchanges, project sharing and language learning.

http://www.iecc.org
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.

Collaborative Classroom Information

http://www.globe.gov
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
“GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program.”

http://www.goals.com
Global Online Adventure Learning Site
“The GOAL of GOAL is to bring real life adventures to the World Wide Web, with emphasis on science, technology and nature.”

Classrooms on the Web

http://electricteacher.com/classroomweb/index.htm
Creating Classroom Webs
Info on creating classroom Websites- broken down by grade level, and also gives a lot of great ideas on how to make the most of your classroom website.

http://www.eduhoundclassroomsontheweb.com/
Eduhound: Classrooms on the Web
Links to other classroom websites, and resources and information for building your own!

http://www.educationwebpage.com/educationwebpage/classroom_websites.htm#examples
Classroom Website Issues Index
Good resource for finding classroom websites by grade level, as well as information on how to build your own.

http://www.moodle.org
Moodle Course Management System
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and install moodle on your webhost for an interactive educational portal of your own!

http://www.lunarpages.com/education.php
Lunarpages Lunarpages, a very popular web host, offers free hosting to educators creating educational websites.

http://www.ccon.org/
The Contact Consortium
The Contact Consortium’s home page is a great source for the latest news on virtual reality developments

Web Search Engines

http://google.com
Google
A popular search engine.

http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/
Lycos
A popular search engine.

http://www.altavista.digital.com
Alta Vista
A popular search engine.

http://www.ask.com
Ask
A popular search engine.

http://www.excite.com/home.apple.html
Excite
A popular search engine.

http://www.go2net.com/search.html
Go 2 Net
A popular search engine.

http://www.infoseek.com
Infoseek
A popular search engine.

http://www.looksmart.com
Look Smart
A popular search engine.

http://www.lycos.com
Lycos
A popular search engine.

http://www.webcrawler.com
WebCrawler
A popular search engine.

http://www.yahoo.com/
Yahoo
A popular search engine.