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:

--http://www.clearinghouse.net/

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

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

LESSON PLANS:

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

KEYPALS AND PENPALS:

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

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES:

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:

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:

--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:

--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:

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:

--http://mcrel.org/standard.html

REFERENCE RESOURCES:

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

LIBRARY CATALOGS:

--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:

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:

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)