Links - General Interest

As I conduct searches across the Internet, I come across a number of great sites that I want to share with you.  These sites are not necessarily related to grants but are a wealth of information for teachers and other educators.

If you have favorite sites that are not listed here, please let me know!

Remember, all links open in their own windows.

This is an annual series initiated under the auspices of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web. 

Organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education

Find reviews of software, books, and educational games as well as links to recommended teacher, student and parent sites.

This site is devoted to Internet-based curriculum and training for K-12 educators, students, and parents.  When visited in May 2001, this site has become fee-based.

Sponsored by the Benton Foundation, Connect For Kids: Guidance For Grownups is a virtual encyclopedia of information for adults who want to make their communities better places for kids.

The Constitution Community is a partnership between classroom teachers and education specialists from the National Archives and Records Administration. Lessons and activities that address constitutional issues, correlate to national academic standards, and encourage the analysis of primary source documents are being developed. The lessons that have already been developed are arranged according to historical era.

A collection of ideas and assistance for student teachers, new teachers and experienced elementary teachers.

(coming soon and renamed as The Teachers Spot as of 6/20/2003)

This site has a variety of useful information, especially for those interested in special education.

The mission of the Education Commission of the States is to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of a learning society

The education web guide:  helps teachers, students and parents find a wide variety of the best educational resources available on the web from top websites, software, videos and supplies to lesson plans, maps, news and books. Education Planet also provides the educational community with services such as online forums, online teacher training, sites of the week and web tools tailored to the unique needs and interests of teachers, students and parents.

School technology news and information - including up-to-date grant opportunities.

Below are several sites that deal with fighting plagiarism:

Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism
Salon: The Web's Plagiarism Police By Andy Dehnart   
Plagiarism.org
Essay Verification Engine  
Glatt Plagiarism Services  
WordCheck Keyword Software 

These links were compiled by Curt Davis from discussions on the LIBREF- L list (mailing list that focuses on the Discussion of Library Reference Issues) and posted to DUC

A plethora of links concerning every possible facet of management.

Gateway to educational materials. An excellent resource for educators and parents. Has links to resources from more than 140 Web sites, all classified by grade level and topic. (Partnership between the Department of Education and Syracuse University's ERIC Clearinghouse)

Great web sites about Grants and Grantwriting are provided by Internet Resources for Nonprofits. Collected by an experienced grant writer and grant reviewer, Grants and Grantwriting links are available solely to sites containing free information, directory and 'how-to' sources. It is only one topic area within Internet Resources for Nonprofits, a massive directory of over 700 annotated resource links particularly useful to nonprofit agencies and their staff, volunteers and community leadership. There are no advertisements and no commercial connections on this site.  All links have been collected by a volunteer professional in the field and includes an extensive selection of online resources for people who seek free access to professionally related topic areas including: fund raising, grants, boards, management and leadership, prospect research, technology, children and youth, education, volunteerism, evaluation and outcomes and more.

A new National Center for Education Statistics site especially for K-12 teachers, administrators, policymakers, librarians, counselors, aides, and parents.

This site offers a growing searchable collection of promising practices on a range of topics; special focus on professional development that includes research-based practices and examples of those practices in real schools.  There are also opportunities to participate in panel discussions, to ask experts questions, and to post your own ideas or stories.    

Assistance with the integration of curriculum and the Internet to promote student literacy

Inspiring stories from schools moving into the digital age by filmmaker George Lucas

MarcoPolo  is a partnership between the MCI WorldCom Foundation and six leading educational organizations dedicated to creating and maintaining standards-based educational content on the Internet for use in schools throughout the country. This project unites the educational expertise of the MarcoPolo partners, which include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council of the Great City Schools, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Council on Economic Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Geographic Society, to create a high-quality, credible source of Internet Content for the classroom. This content includes five discipline-specific, educational Web sites that provide online lesson plans, approved links, and other educational materials whose integrity and quality are reviewed by panels of experts and assured by the reputation of the MarcoPolo partner organizations.

A retired secondary principal, Mr. Mullens has created this site to serve as a starting point for educators who are interested in researching educational topics on Internet. This site has been awarded Point Communication's (now Lycos) Top 5% award - no small feat!

MyClass.net is a free on-line service that allows teachers to create their own class web sites with class-specific information and communication tools.  The free MyClass.net web site includes such features as email accounts teachers, students, and parents; class discussion boards for group collaboration; pages for posting class announcements and assignments; easy-to-use teacher tools for site customizing; and community boards for sharing ideas with other schools.

The goals of the Mustang project are: to give K12 educators a management model for integrating the World Wide Web into their curriculum; to help K12 educators design and implement Internet projects for their curriculum and graduation standards; and to provide an on-line staff development program for teachers who wish to integrate the Internet into their classroom.

"The Internet in the Classroom", this site is an excellent resource! It includes information on grants that focus on science, math, engineering, and educational technology (thanks for the tip, Sherri!)

A consumer's guide to the news.  

Select from 12 categories with hundreds of Web sites and e-mail addresses where you can find experts to answer your questions from astronaut experiences to facts about zoo keeping. Ask an Expert is a directory of links to people who have volunteered their time to answer questions and Web pages that provide information.

Find tons of competitive events for students, resources for educators, and more!  Check it out!

The Nation's largest network of community-based school reform organizations.  

82 categories for internet research

The nation's largest sample survey of the characteristics and conditions of America's public and private schools and the teachers and principals who work in them

The purpose of the STAR Center is to focus energy, expertise and commitment to prepare our children for the 21st century by providing support and technical assistance services to TEA, ESCs, and local school districts that implement state and local education reform efforts funded under The Improving America's Schools Act. 

"The Learning Portal"

Kids read books and win prizes

Find lesson plans, behavior management techniques, stress reduction section,  a regular teacher chat on IRC and more on this site.

TeachersFirst is a collection of Internet resources and lesson plans from around the world. Each resource is selected and reviewed by TeachersFirst. Reviewed resources are grouped by subject and grade level, so that teachers can find what they need quickly.

This is a commercial site with a mission to encourage, recognize, and reward teacher excellence. From highlighting individual teachers across the nation for their efforts to providing a comprehensive list of Internet sites and information, teachersplanet.com strives to be the best for its loyal base of teachers. Their teaching supply store is unique in that it lists the industry's top teaching supplies in a convenient, organized fashion. Teachers anywhere in the world have access to whatever they need.

Brought to you by FamilyEducation.com, TeacherVision offers lesson plans, resources, teachers' ideas on products, lesson plans, or challenging situations, and more.  There are several free newsletters available. This site is one you will want to visit again and again.

Community engagement and volunteerism

The Texas Center for Educational Research (TCER) is an independent, nonprofit, educational research organization established to study major issues affecting all levels and areas of Texas public education. TCER's objective is to design and produce original research and provide high-quality information resources for those who make, influence, or implement education policy in Texas.  I particularly liked their "Education Links" page - which has links of interest to all educators.

The Foundation's mission is to improve Texas government by generating academically sound research and data on state issues, and by recommending the findings to opinion leaders, policy makers, the media and general public.

Contests for students and teachers! 

ThinkWave Educator is a classroom management application created especially for teachers that simplifies everyday administrative tasks.  Teachers can easily:  Create and manage assignments, activities and calendars; Administer custom grading systems; Communicate, securely, progress to students and parents on ThinkWave.com

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