An Introduction to Internet Resources for K-12 Educators

Part I: Information Resources, Update

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K-12: Web Sites

Readers should be aware that the resources and their Internet addresses below are subject to change.

Guides to Internet Resources

The Argus Clearinghouse: A large collection of guides to Internet resources categorized by topic

http://www.clearinghouse.net/

AskERIC InfoGuides: Topical guides to Internet, ERIC, and print resources

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/InfoGuides/

Lesson Plans

The AskERIC Virtual Library contains hundreds of lesson plans, including, but not limited to, language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science. Also included are lesson plans from School Library Media Activities Monthly, Newton's Apple Educators Guides, and Crossroads: K16 American History Curriculum.

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/

Keypals and Penpals

IECC (Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections) maintains a suite of listservs that facilitate international and cross-cultural classroom exchanges via e-mail over the Internet. Archives and general information can be found on the St. Olaf's WWWserver.

http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/

Acceptable Use Policies

Many schools which provide Internet access to students and staff have created policies and agreements for the appropriate use of Internet accounts. Samples of agreements, policies and opinion pieces have been collected at:

Armadillo's WWW Server

http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/Resources/acceptable.html

Technology Plans for K-12 Schools

The National Center for Technology Planning collects technology plans and makes them freely available over the Internet. Guidebooks and articles for developing technology plans are also included.

http://www2.msstate.edu/~lsa1/nctp/index.html

Internet Projects for the Classroom

Examples of telecommunication projects that incorporate the use of the Internet in the classroom can be found on the following sites:

Global SchoolNet Foundation: Internet Projects Registry Archive Service:

http://www.gsn.org/gsn/proj/index.html

Pitsco Online Collaborative Projects:

http://www.pitsco.com/pitsco/collab.html

Grant Information

U.S. Department of Education Grants & Contracts Information: Includes current grant application announcements.

http://gcs.ed.gov/ (Select "Grants Information".)

Foundation Center: Provides a searchable database of funding activities as well as links to private or corporate foundations' Web sites.

http://fdncenter.org/

Federal Government Information

Louisiana State University Libraries U.S. Federal Government Agencies Page:

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

The Federal Web Locator, from the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy

http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html

State Education Departments

This is a sample list of state departments of education Internet sites.

California Department of Education:

http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/

Michigan Department of Education:

http://www.mde.state.mi.us/

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction:

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/

Vermont Department of Education:

http://www.state.vt.us/educ/

Standards-Based Education

The Mid-Continental Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) is recognized for its work in standards-based education. This WWW site includes several full-text online resources that will assist educators in developing their own standards based curriculum.

http://mcrel.org/standard.html

Reference Resources

The Libraries of Purdue University: The Virtual Reference Desk: An extensive collection of online ready reference resources, such as dictionaries, thesauri, phone books and zip codes.

http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html

Library Catalogs

"webCATS," from the University of Saskatchewan Libraries is a directory of library catalogs which can be searched via the Web. webCATS is organized for searching geographically, by type of library, and by library catalog vendor.

http://library.usask.ca/hywebcat/

Library of Congress: Provides access to the holdings of the Library of Congress, U.S. Government copyright files, federal legislation, foreign law, and gateway access to many other library catalogs.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/catalog/

Other Resources

Hundreds of resources covering almost every subject imaginable exist on the Internet. Here are some additional ones that would be of special interest to K-12 educators.

ACCESS ERIC: Gateway to the Internet sites of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).

http://www.aspensys.com/eric/index.html

Consortium for School Networking (CoSN):

http://www.cosn.org/

NASA Spacelink: Information about NASA, including the space shuttle program, and science curriculum activities.

http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov

http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/home.index.html

Roadmap: An Internet Training Workshop.

http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/roadmap.html

Web 66: A K-12 WWW Project from the University of Minnesota.

http://web66.coled.umn.edu/

Yahoo: A hierarchical subject-oriented catalog for the World Wide Web and Internet.

http://www.yahoo.com/

References and Readings

AskERIC Toolbox: favorite resources of AskERIC's Question-Answering service: http://ericir.syr.edu/Qa/Toolbox/

Junion-Metz, G. (1996). K-12 resources on the Internet: An instructional guide. Internet workshop series, number 5. San Carlos, CA: Library Solutions Press. (ISBN-1-882208-14-5). (ED 389 316)

K-12 computer networking. (1995). The ERIC Review, 4(1) (ED 392 413)

Lankes, R. D. (1996). Bread and butter of the Internet. ERIC Digest. Syracuse, NY: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology. (ED number pending, IR-97-02)

Miller, E. B. (1996). The Internet resource directory for K-12 teachers and librarians, 95/96 edition. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc. (ISBN-1-56308-366-3). (ED 389 330)

Serim, F. & Koch, M. (1996). NetLearning: Why teachers use the Internet. Sebastopol, CA: Songline Studios, Inc. and O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., (ED 396 700)

Tennant, R. (1996). Internet basics: Update 1996. ERIC Digest. Syracuse, NY: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology. (ED 392 466)

Valauskas, E. J. & Ertel, M. (1996). The Internet for teachers and school library media specialists: Today's applications, tomorrow's prospects. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (ISBN-1-55570-239-2). (ED 395 594)

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ED407927 Apr 97 An Introduction to Internet Resources for K-12 Educators.
Part I: Information Resources, Update
1997. ERIC Digest.
Author: Morgan, Nancy A.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, Syracuse, NY.

THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC

This ERIC Digest was prepared by Nancy A. Morgan, AskERIC Coordinator for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology at Syracuse University. nmorgan@ericir.syr.edu

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