Community Learning Network

The Community Learning Network (CLN) is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. CLN has over 190 menu pages with more than 3,800 annotated links to educational WWW sites, as well as over 120 WWW resources of their own.

Co-NECT

Co-NECT is a national assistance organization dedicated to helping communities around the country use technology for comprehensive school change and improved academic results in reading, writing, mathematics, science and other core subjects. Additionally, Co-NECT helps K-12 educators use technology for whole-school change and improved academic results.

Fermilab LInC

Fermilab LInC is a program that has grown from a site-based training model to reach an eight-state region of change agents in the educational community. The program's goal is to create a network of educational leaders who will effectively use technology for "Engaged Learning". LInC Online participants will explore educational uses of the Internet to create and implement a project using graphics and Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML). Participants use the Internet to facilitate Engaged Learning in their classrooms and will communicate weekly to collaborate with other participants and course facilitators. In addition, school, district, and regional administrators will be encouraged to support staff development in Internet awareness, its potential for education and ways to facilitate successful classroom integration.

KidsKonnect

KidsKonnect is a safe Internet gateway created by educators. It features kid-friendly links for subjects ranging from Afghanistan to Zoos.

Learner Online

A web site maintained by the Annenberg/CPB Project, one of the nation's leaders in helping colleges, universities, high schools and community organizations use telecommunications technologies to improve learning for all students, including the growing number of older and part-time students, and informal learners in their homes.

TECH CORPS

TECH CORPS is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to recruit, place, and support volunteers from the technology community who advise and assist schools in the introduction and integration of new technologies into the educational system. Volunteers provide assistance with local planning, technical support and advice, staff training, mentoring, and classroom interactions. The organization utilizes the abilities of skilled volunteers across the country in an effort to prepare students, teachers, and schools for the 21st century.

techLEARNING.com

techLEARNING.com is designed to provide educators with ideas, tools, and resources for integrating technology into the K-12 school, classroom and curriculum.

U.S. Charter Schools

A web site designed for those people at the local level actually involved in creating, sponsoring and running charter schools.

Virtual Reference Desk

Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) is a project whose goal is to create mediated Internet-based information services. The project is sponsored by the United States Department of Education.

The WebQuest Page

WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The WebQuest Page is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest notion to teach with the web.

webTeacher

webTeacher is a comprehensive, interactive, 80-hour, self-guided and self-paced tutorial, available to teachers free over the Internet. Created by teachers, the service helps educators master the Internet and integrate new technologies into student learning. Teachers can learn to navigate the 'Net, link to educational web sites, develop lesson plans, create their own home pages, find tips on Internet safety, and more.

Other Selected Resources
Center for Applied Research in Education Technology
Great Web Sites for Kids (American Library Association)
Moodle (A Course Management System)
Teachers at Work: Internet Tools for Teachers

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