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Table of Contents
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- Instructions
on how to navigate this document
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- Teacher/Classroom
resources for connecting technology to
curriculum
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- Educational
resources by subject area
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College
Preparation-
- The Stanford Study
Guide Webware System
- Looking for some sample tests for practicing the SAT?
ACT? Look no further than this web site where students can
plug in scores and be directed to practice questions on
areas in which they need help - for FREE. Be sure to read
the instructions first! Excellent lessons and SAT questions
for practicing the math and verbal sections of the SAT.
- http://www.testprep.com/
- College Board
Online Home Page
- Contains Expan Scholarship Search, a scholarship data
base, similar to the program Fund Raiser found libraries
& guidance counselor offices [also offered by the
College Board]. Click on college search. Also
includes a SAT sample question of the day.
- http://www.collegeboard.org/
- fastWEB!
(Financial Aid Search Through the Web)
- Billed as the world's largest free scholarship
search, it does seem to be a truly friendly and extensive
place to begin.
- http://www.studentservices.com/fastweb/
- National Association of
Student Financial Aid Administrators Home Page
- The Financial Aid Information Page provides a free,
comprehensive, objective, and independent guide to
student aid financial aid resources on the World Wide
Web. Click on the Public Web site link.
- http://www.nasfaa.org/
- Sallie Mae
- Sallie Mae is a major provider of student education
loans [including federal Stafford loans and
grants]. This site will soon allow access of current
student loan accounts. Great counseling/information
resource for making student loan decisions.
- http://www.salliemae.com/
- Educaid
- Welcome to the Student Loan specialists. Information
on federal financial aid, application forms for Stafford
loans, PLUS and other student loans. Includes links to
many college financial aid offices.
- http://www.educaid.com/
- FinAid: The Financial Aid
Information Page
- Welcome to FinAid, the Financial Aid Information
Page. This page provides a free, comprehensive,
independent, and objective guide to student financial
aid. Includes related links, special interest categories,
sources of aid, general info and fin aid calculators
- http://finaid.org/
- U.S.
Universities and Community Colleges
- The University of Texas at Austin maintains a list of
the primary Web servers found at universities, colleges
and community colleges across the US. You can view and
search their index in alphabetical order or by
state.
- http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/
- Education
World Search Engine
- Providing a search engine/directory of over 56,000
URL's for education, this is one of the most
comprehensive educational data bases on the web,
including subject specific site, financial aid and
colleges choices.
- http://www.education-world.com/
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- Support
Resources
NCSA--A
Beginner's Guide to HTML
- This is a primer for producing documents in HTML;
clear outline format for quick reference and tag
selection
- http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html
- Bare
Bones Guide to HTML
- A very nicely laid out site for learning and
identifying HTML tags; contains special sections on
backgrounds and colors, with many "how to" links.
- http://werbach.com/barebones/barebone.html
- California
Department of Education
- The California Department of Education's home page.
News, updates, grant projects, and more.
- http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/
- Welcome
to shareware.com (VSL)
- The new VSL (virtual software library) location: this is
the place to start for top of the line freeware and
shareware.
- http://www.shareware.com/
- Global
Connections
- This site contains examples and resources for
teachers of simple ways to utilize the Internet, a wide
range of tools and resources for the classroom, examples
of simple lessons, an example of a on-line homework
hotline and more.
- http://www.sonic.net/bantam1
- TeleEducation
NB - Learning on the Web
- Welcome to Learning on the Web: An Instructor's Manual.
Another fine resource from Canada. I it is s their hope that
this manual will help teachers learn, adapt and develop
their own courses for delivery, using the Web. Go to
"introduction for index.
- http://teleeducation.nb.ca/lotw/
- Global
SchoolNet Foundation Home Page
- This organization, led by Al Rogers, has consistently
developed interesting ways to use telecommunications. They
maintain lists of schools, projects, and websites. It has
grown to international classroom linkages, pilots projects
and curricular resources with worldwide sponsors.
- http://www.gsn.org/
- The San
Francisco Exploratorium
- This creative site provides excellent teacher
resources in science, special exhibits, and serves as an
Internet gateway to what is new in the world of Science.
Also includes monthly links to the 10 best K-12 art and
science pages
- http://www.exploratorium.edu/
- FAMSF-Welcome to the
Thinker!
- Everything you need to know about the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco is here, including special exhibits and hours,
with a special focus on the De Young and Legion of Honor. With
the goal of art access, the 60,000 works in their Imagebase is
truly remarkable and accessible.
- http://www.thinker.org/
- CUE
home page
- CUE is the oldest and largest organization in the United
States dedicated to learning, teaching and technology. CUE is a
not-for-profit educational corporation registered in
California.
- http://www.cue.org
- Kidsweb
Home page
- This is a World Wide Web digital library for kids & for
teachers, part of the Syracuse University Living Schoolbook
Project. , it offers major categories of information. Well
worth exploring the links and subcategories.
- http://www.kidsvista.com/index.html
- Deaf
World
- Established in 1995, this page provides a central net point
for information for and about the deaf world. It contains three
core tracks: youth, culture and references. This site is for my
friend, Jill Kantor.
- http://dww.deafworldweb.org/
- Latin
World - Latin America on the Net
- Primary link for all things connected to Latinos and
Chicanos. Excellent search mechanism for Latino themes for
North, Central and South American related information.
- http://www.latinworld.com/
- Edutopia
Home Page
- This is the home page for the George Lucas Educational
Foundation. It contains recent information and copies of the
foundation newsletter. This can connect you to Lucas's
commitment to education and educational support.
- http://glef.org
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- Search
tools
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- The Spider's
Apprentice--Tips on Searching the Web
- This page is designed to help you search the Web more
efficiently. How to get the most from *search engines like
AltaVista, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler, Lycos, HotBot, Open
Text and the Yahoo Directory. This is a section well worth
printing out.
- http://www.monash.com/spidap.html
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- General
search engines
- Specialized
search engines
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- General search
engines/directories
- Alta
Vista
- Demonstrating the power of Digital Equipment's computer
this database includes 20,000,000 links in its database and
is growing as we surf. Supports Boolean Logic for AND, OR,
and NOT, as well as proximity operator, NEAR; it will also
support key phrase searchs by enclosing words in quotation
marks.
- http://www.altavista.com/
- Welcome to the Mother of
all Search Engines
- This search engine has the capabilities of Internet
Sleuth and Webcrawler, plus more. It will search with
several of the more powerful search engines, eliminate
duplicate sites and annotate. It can accept searching by
phrases and can focus in to specific categories of
searches.
- http://www.mamma.com
- WebCrawler
Searching
- This engine creates a strong, yet simple annotated
listing of sites for any particular search, rather than
every conceivable connection to your query
- http://webcrawler.com/
- Yahoo
- Very friendly search engine/directory, which also lets
you narrow the search by categories, such as sports,
politics, entertainment, business, etc. Supports Boolean
logic AND and OR.
- http://www.yahoo.com
- Lycos
search
- Clean and reliable keyword search engine.
- http://www.lycos.com/
- Specialized search
engines/directories
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- DejaNews
Research Service
- Provides usenet searching; a variety of options allow
you to tailor your search, including a "create a query"
filter, which lets you limit your search by newsgroup, date
or author.
- http://www.dejanews.com/
- Liszt: Searchable Directory
of e-Mail Discussion Groups
- Looking for an e-mail discussion group? Enter any word
or phrase to search the directory of mailing lists - 55,060
listserv, listproc, majordomo and independently managed
lists. Once your search produces a site or sites, Liszt will
then assist you in evaluating it, often including samples
from their archives.
- http://www.liszt.com/
- Math
Forum Internet Resource Collection
- The Swarthmore Math Forum has developed a distributed,
universal index that can be relied on for up-to-date,
comprehensive access to all of the sites and individual
pages available for mathematics education.
- http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/
- FeMiNa
- The first comprehensive WWW based directory and
information resource containing information for women and
girls online. Uses standard word-search subject form.
- http://www.femina.com/
- WhoWhere?
PeopleSearch
- WhoWhere? is the largest worldwide directory of email
addresses (so they say). Still, a very effective place to
start searching out those you would like to find. You can
also add your address to the listing
- http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
- Alex: A
catalog of electronic texts on the Internet
- Alex is/was an informal research project whose purpose
was to explore the possibilities creating catalogs of
Internet-based electronic texts. The catalog contains
roughly 2,000 entries mostly on gopher servers. This is a
sophisticated search engine.
- http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
- Enews:
The Electronic News Stand
- Hundreds of online mainstream magazines; searchable
database, by topic or alphabetically; very full range of
titles
- http://www.enews.com/home
- Education
World Search Engine
- Providing a search engine/directory of over 20,000
URL's for education, this is one of the most
comprehensive educational data bases on the web,
including subject specific site, financial aid and
colleges choices.
- http://www.education-world.com/
- GRADES Educational Link Archive
- Global Resources And Directory of Educational Sites.
G.R.A.D.E.S. is designed to provide high quality, very
focused searches specifically for K-12 educators. This is a
part of Classroom Connect.
- http://www.connectedteacher.com/library/bestofweb.asp
- At Hand: From
Pacific Bell
- Pac Bell's yellow pages on-line. A guide to over
1,000,000 California businesses.
- http://www.smartpages.com/
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- Reference
books
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- Research-It!
- Your one-stop reference desk
- A one-stop site for major reference materials. It
includes language translators & conjugators,
dictionaries, thesaurus, Bartlett's and Bible quotations
and more. Although laid out in a clear and easy table
manner, it can take a few moments to download.
- http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html
- Roget's
Thesaurus
- http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- http://www.bartleby.com/99/index.html
- CIA
World Fact Book
- This country by country reference book contains
extensive demographic and geographic data about every
country in the world, including several excellent maps.
Superb demographics resource.
- http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html
- Martindale's
'The Reference Desk: Calculators On-Line'
- From the UC Irvine, this page is almost beyond
imagination. 100+ calculators, conversions tables and
weather from everywhere. Be sure to scroll beyond the
initial directory for more details on each calculator. P.S.:
they actually work!
- http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html
- Glossary
of Mathematical Terms
- Very comprehensive glossary of mathematical terms
- http://www.colorado.edu/education/DMP/def.html
- Notable
Citizens of Planet Earth
- A virtual "Who's Who", leaf through these searchable
pages and you'll find full biographical information on over
18,000 notable people from ancient times to present day
- http://www.s9.com/biography/
- Britannica
on-line
- This new service is for a fee, but they will consider
applications from educators to assist in the beta testing
of this new product. Besides all the best features of
this encyclopedia, the search features are annotated and
linked.
- http://www.eb.com/
- I-Quote (stock
quotes and business news)
- Up to the minute stock quotes, charts and news
- http://www.quote.com/quotecom/
- WebElements
- Superb periodic tables with each element having a
variety of links
- http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/
- MapQuest! Welcome!
- This is definitely searching with a twist. You can go to
MapQuest and pinpoint any location in the United States down
to the street level, and have a map drawn out for you to
download. {courtesy of Classroom Connect].
- http://www.mapquest.com/
- ILC
Glossary of Internet Terms
- From Internet Literacy Consultants, a very comprehensive
Internet glossary, with alphabetical links
- http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
- The
Knowledge Connection
- Press Democrat's award winning Student Research page
gives access to online dictionaries, almanacs and
newspapers, organized by topics such as Math, Science and
History.
http://www.pressdemo.com/library/research
If you should have additions to these links, that you have used in
your classrooms, please forward your contribution to Barry
Sovel.
[last updated: 4 December, 2001 ]
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