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Using
Technology As a Tool in the Classroom:
Making Connections Training
Teachers
Curriculum Links and Teaching Resources
Teacher
Resources
- Alta Vista Translation
Service
- http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
- Submit text or a URL for a webpage and this tool will
translate it from English to Spanish or Spanish to
English with the click of the mouse! Grammar and accent
marks are not perfect but a surprisingly understandable
translation appears. Also translates from English to
French, Portuguese,German, or Italian.
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- ArtsEdge
- http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html
- ArtEdge aims to bring together and organize the best
of ideas, information, and resources from the arts and
from education. Includes news, links, curriculum, and
more. For example, The
Student Research Pages
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/srp.html are
thematically organized collections of links designed for
students' guided research on the Internet. These pages
are also helpful tools as lesson plan resources. From the
John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the
National Endowment for the Arts (with additional support
from the U.S. Department of Education).
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- Blue Web'n
- http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
- Blue Web'n is a searchable database of outstanding
Internet learning sites categorized by subject area
audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects,
resources, references, & tools).
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- Lesson Plans for the Busy Teacher
from Georgia Tech
- http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.htm
- This Site is designed to provide teachers with direct
source materials, lesson plans, and classroom activities
with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and to provide an
enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is
learning to use the Internet.
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- The Center for New Discoveries in
Learning
- http://www.discoveries.org
- Helping Children Learn How To
Learn
- This website is designed to diagnose specific
learning problems. It contains questionnaires and an
on-line personal learning style inventory to help
teachers and parents determine the causes of their
child's or student's learning needs. It also takes a
developmental approach to problems like ADHD.
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- EDSITEment
- http://edsitement.neh.gov
- This K-12 website includes the following: Top
Humanities Web Sites: a user-friendly site offering
one-top shopping for quality materials on humanities
related topics. Each link listed on EDSITEment has been
screened by a rigorous academic review process and
endorsed by a distinguished panel of educators and
parents. Learning Guides: Practical lesson plans that
draw directly on the resources available through
EDSITEment, with step-by-step directions to help teachers
implement each learning activity or use it as a template
to create their own lesson plans. Take-Home Activities:
Specially-designed activities that allow students and
their parents to work together on projects that bring
EDSITEment into students' homes. Activities can be
completed with or without home access to the
Internet.
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- ED's Oasis'
- http://www.EDsOasis.org/Oasis.html
- The primary purpose of this site is to make the
Internet easier and more rewarding to use with students.
ED's Oasis provides links to what educators around the
country recommend as the most engaging student-centered
web sites, AND examples demonstrating effective classroom
Internet use from successful teachers.
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- Family Fun
- http://www.familyfun.com/
- If you're a parent or primary school teacher who's
running out of ideas to keep cabin fever at bay, you
might want to explore Family Fun magazine's Website. Full
of quick activities and well-written articles, this site
can help keep those active minds and bodies moving in a
positive direction. A particularly helpful link is to
that compass of every child's life: holidays. Do
something nice for a wee one you love by exploring this
site.
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- Federal Resources for Educational
Excellence
- http://www.ed.gov/free/
- On April 18, 1997, President Clinton asked Federal
agencies to identify resources that would "enrich the
Internet as a tool for teaching and learning." 30
agencies responded, contributing to this rich site that
makes hundreds of educational resources from federally
sponsored programs available to the public, free of
charge. Visitors interested in art history, for example,
will find links to the American Folklife Center, virtual
tours of Mathew Brady portraits, and a Multimedia Project
on Amiens Cathedral at Columbia University. General
topics range from art to educational technology to
vocational education, and are easy to browse or search.
The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) is a new
search tool designed to locate other instructional
materials on the internet.
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- Global School Net
Foundation
- http://www.gsn.org
- The Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) is a major
contributor to the philosophy, design, culture and
content of Internet-based learning. GSN's mission is to
"harness the power of the Internet" to provide ongoing
opportunities to support learners both in and outside of
the school environment. GSN offers a variety of free
support services to learners, but more importantly they
provide the "training wheels" needed to get started! GSN
collaborates with individuals, schools, businesses and
community organizations to design, develop, and manage
hundreds of collaborative learning projects each
year.
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- Kids Food
CyberClub
- http://www.kidsfood.org/
- Kids today want cheeseburgers and soda, not milk and
tossed salad. It is harder than ever to get them to eat
right. That's why the Connecticut Association for Human
Services and Kaiser Permanente developed this wonderful
Web site, designed to teach 3rd to 5th graders about food
and nutrition. The site is divided into sections,
including "Food Keeps Us Well," "Rate Your Plate," and
"Food Facts." Each features an interactive quiz with
feedback to test and reinforce learning. Highlights of
the site include "The Club Cookbook" where visitors are
invited to send in their favorite recipes and "Books We
Love to Read." A section for parents features fun and
educational activities to do with children, and a
downloadable Teacher's Guide (PDF) includes lesson plans
and classroom activities.
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- The Learning Connection: Schools
in the Information Age
- http://www.benton.org/Library/Schools/home.html
- This extensive research report examines, "how
educators are grappling with the difficult interplay of
technological change and educational values" and
"identifies key factors that make the connection work,
and reviews major players in the education technology
arena." Companion site What's Working in Education goes
into greater detail about lessons learned in the
field.
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- Puzzlemaker
- http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
- Need a sponge activity or extra credit handout for
your lesson tomorrow? Want to spice up a newsletter or
flyer? This site lets you create your own mazes, word
searches, crosswords, number blocks, math squares, and
more. All you do is enter information and click the
"Create" button, wait a few seconds, then print your
customized puzzle. Grade Level: Elementary, Middle
School,
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- Kathy Schrock's Guide for
Educators http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified
list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for
enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It
is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of
new World Wide Web sites.
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