ERIC Identifier: ED407927
Publication Date: 1997-04-00
Author: Morgan, Nancy A.
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on
Information and Technology Syracuse NY.
An Introduction to Internet Resources for K-12 Educators. Part
I: Information Resources, Update 1997. ERIC Digest.
The Internet is an international computer network composed of thousands of
smaller networks. Recently, through state and regional education networks and
commercial providers, the vast resources of the Internet are increasingly
available to administrators, school library media specialists, and classroom
teachers. This digest lists a sample of no cost Internet resources of special
interest to K-12 educators.
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/acceptabl e.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/
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Serim, F. & Koch, M. (1996). NetLearning: Why teachers use the Internet.
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