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- Professional Development
- Software for Internet Text-to-Speech and More
Lesson Plans
- Creative Writing in a World Classroom (Wagner)
"Through the use of telecommunications, students explore and compare their town and themselves with students from other cities, countries and cultures."
- Finding and Reporting on Satellites (Exploratorium)
Provides a lesson to help students collaborate in groups and use the Internet to find and report information. 3-01
- Integrating Internet (Digital Education Network)
- Integrating Internet into Classroom (Mendocino)
Includes units in 19 subjects.
- Integrating Technology (TeachNet)
- Integrating Technology in the Classroom (Online Class) 7-00
- Safety on the Net - Grades 2 - 3 (McMillan McGraw-Hill - Cybersmart)
Covers Internet safety, research, manners, and how to identify advertising.. 9-01
- Safety on the Net - Grades 4 - 5 (McMillan McGraw-Hill - Cybersmart)
Covers Internet safety, research, manners, and how to identify advertising.. 9-01
- Safety on the Net - Grades 6 - 8 (McMillan McGraw-Hill - Cybersmart)
Covers Internet safety, research, manners, and how to identify advertising.. 9-01
- Safety on the Net - Grades k - 1 (McMillan McGraw-Hill - Cybersmart)
Covers Internet safety, research, manners, and how to identify advertising.. 9-01
- Technology Integration Lesson Plans (Bellingham)
- Technology for Africa
Lists
- Educational Technology (Gaer)
- Integrating Technology (Hackbarth)
Provides dozens of sources of information.
- Integrating the Internet (Hixson)
- Linking Kids Around the World (Global SchoolNet Foundation)
- Plagiarism Stoppers - A Teacher's Guide (Sharka)
Provides sources of information to help prevent or catch online plagiarism. Also includes tips, such as "a way to detect plagiarized text is to locate a phrase containing unique words, then search for it using a search engine like Google." Visitors sometimes misspell as plagarism, plaigarism, plagerism, plaigerism, or pliagarism. 3-02
- Projects With Others Online (Exworthy)
Provides a list of resources that support interactive projects.
- Teaching with Technology
Papers
- -Safety on the Web (Internet Alliance - Magid)
 Child Safety on the Information Highway provides a discussion and guidelines for child safety. It is one of the most authoritative guides on this topic.
- Ask the Cosmologist (PBS - Hawking)
- Bridging the Digital Divide News (Digital Divide)
Provides articles related to attempts to reduce the digital divide between the poor and the affluent in the United States.
- California Digital High School Program (California School Library Association)
Provides an introduction to California's program to help integrate technology into classroom instruction. California school staff have access to individual assistance under the program. 3-01
- Classroom Experiences with the Internet (WestEd)
Provides "Tales from the Electronic Frontier," written by 10 teachers of science or math. 4-00
- Cooperative Learning and Telecommuniations (Mining Co. - Walker)
Provides 15 annotated articles on application of cooperative learning to telecommunications.
- Critical Thinking About Web Sources (Michigan State University - Link)
Provides criteria for students to use in judging Web sources of information to help them think critically. 2-00
- Designing Lessons with the Web (WebQuests)
- Hardware and Technology Donations (Annenberg)
Provides sources for funding or donations in hardware and technology for K-12 schools, teachers, or students. 3-00
- Integrating Internet into the Classroom (Many Articles)
- Issues - Wiring the Classroom (CNet)
Provides issue papers and links related to the effectiveness of the use of computers and similar technology in the classroom.
- Nearly Two-thirds Of Classrooms Have Internet Access (applesforhealth)
Nearly two-thirds of all public school classrooms and almost every public school in the country now has access to the Internet, according to a report from the Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics. 02-25-00.
- Organizing Web Resources
- Plagiarism Prevention (Indiana University - Writing Tutorial Services)
Provides a tutorial on how to avoid plagairism. Visitors sometimes misspell as plaigerism, plaigarism, plagiarizm, plagerism, plagiarised, plagarized, plagerized, plagerised, or plagarised. Awesome Library does not recommend the services, but provides them as examples. 4-00
- Research on the Impact of Technology on Education (Technology and Learning Cyberstore)
Provides interviews with leading researchers on the impact of technology on education.
- School Improvement Issues (Achieve Communications - InsideEducation.net)
Provides articles for school improvement, with a heavy emphasis on utilizing technology. 10-01
- School Progress in Technology (U.S. Department of Education)
Describes progress in bringing technology into classrooms as of 1996. 11-01
- The Global Classroom (Simmons)
- Tips for Integrating Technology in the Classroom (Microsoft - Dyck and Morgan)
Provides numerous tips and guidelines for helping to use technology, including the Internet, as part of the classroom. 9-01
- Toolbar Buttons for Newer Browsers (Google)
Explains how to place buttons (links) on your browser's toolbar at the tops of pages. Although the instructions are for Google buttons, other buttons, such as the Awesome Library, can also be placed on the toolbar by the same procedure. For example, find a link to Awesome Library's Home and drag it to the "Link" area of the toolbar. 7-00
- Using the Web (webTeacher and Tech Corps)
Introduces the methods and tools of the Web. 8-00
- Utilizing the Internet With the Classroom (FNO)
Provides a series of articles by title.
Projects
- America's Promise - Summit Action Youth for Educators (President's Summit)
Provides suggestions on ways educators can help students become involved with the America's Promise campaign and the Summit in particular.
- Astronomy Resources (NASA Quest)
Provides classroom resources to encourage students to study science and math through astronomy. 1-01
- Collaborative Internet Projects (NickNacks)
Provides projects for students and teachers globally to communicate on lessons and share ideas. 2-01
- Constructivist Web Page Design (Tweb)
Provides suggestions for organizing Web activities to integrate technology into lesson plans.
- Elementary Web Projects (Walnut Heights Elementary)
Provides Web drawings and stories of children K-5.
- Evaluation of Web Resources (Alexander and Tate)
Provides checklists and other resources for students to evaluate Web resources.
- Integrating Inquiry and Technology into Middle Schools
Provides an integration of use of the Internet with the interdisciplinary lessons.
- Internet Setup for the Classroom (Web 66 - Collins)
Shows how to set up the Internet on different types of operating systems, including Windows 95, Windows NT, and Macintosh. 1-01
- Using Internet to Teach History
Purchase Resources
- -Awesome Library Browser for Children (AwesomeLibrary.org)
 Awesome Library Browser for Children (ALBC) provides libraries, and schools with a minimalist but effective method of keeping K-6 children from being exposed to hard core adult sites--without the use of censorship lists.
Instead of using lists, Awesome Library Browser for Children looks for a designation that virtually all hard core adult Web sites put on their Web pages so they can be found by search engines. It happens to be a designation that other sites do not use. ALBC also offers "green space" to ensure that children can find what they need easily. 9-03
- Plagiarism Prevention (Plagiarism.com)
Provides an analysis of research papers and essays to determine if the student copied part or all of it from an existing Web resource. Visitors sometimes misspell as plaigerism, plaigarism, plagiarizm, plagerism, plagiarised, plagarized, plagerized, plagerised, or plagarised. Awesome Library does not recommend the services, but provides them as examples. 4-00
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