Does anyone have a doubt there is so
much information on the Internet about education that it is difficult to
find the quality that is needed to make good decisions? ADPRIMA is trying to
help you save some time. The links in the categories below contain helpful
information about education. Sites are added as appropriate.
Chili Jobs Nationwide online job
search engine with an easy-to-use job post/search format for
all employment or recruitment-related needs. Allstarjobs.comDirectory of employment
agencies, job banks, employers & career resources.
Net Temps: "A World of Jobs
Neatly Packaged"is a comprehensive resource that has fantastic
job listings in a wide variety of categories and is exceptionally well
organized. Job Trak
is partnered with over 500 college and university career centers nationwide. Find jobs in exotic places
Just what the name implies. PJ ScoutLooks for the perfect
job. CareerWeb Job seekers can search
for free. Career Resource Center
One of the most comprehensive career sites on the Web.
Children's
Literature and Language Arts
Science Learning
Network A site that features some interesting online projects for students
and teachers. School Internet Projects
Basically,
a site that has lots of links to other sites that feature collaborative Internet projects. European Schoolnet
A
great resource for international collaborative projects, K-12. Loogootee Schools Web Site
Don't
let the name fool you. This is a great resource for developing school-based web sites, and
has an excellent list of collaborative Internet projects.
Connecting
with Other Teachers: Some good links to teacher
self-help resources.
Teacher
Talk From Indiana University, a fantastic collection of articles and
information for new and experienced teachers. The Staff Room of Canada's SchoolNet
Forum One
The jumping off point to discussion fora on the Internet, including some
excellent ones for teachers and educators.
For First Year Teachers
NEW
BigIQBee Spelling Bee.Simulates a 'live'
spelling competition and tests young learners on grade appropriate spelling
words in a fun, challenging atmosphere. Ask Me Help
Desk for Education. An excellent education resource
covering areas from academic advising to universities and
colleges. Timesavers for Teachers.
World's largest collection of often-used teacher forms, worksheets and
classroom resources. Gradeconnect.com.
A great online course management system for teachers. Best of
all, it's free! English Daily.
A great site for teachers or students with topics ranging from grammar to
proverbs. Impressive and well worth a visit. Sites for Teachers. A site with an impressive list of resources for
teachers at all levels. Educators Key. A site
with many links to education resources. Teaching
Treasures.A well organized Australian site that has plenty to
offer from great links to downloadable worksheets and projects. Help for New
Teachers. A great page of resources for new teachers with many links. Educational Resources and Lesson Plans
Over a thousand links to lesson plans and other resources of potential use to education students, teachers, and
home schoolers. Washington
Post Education Page This is a great resource. It is timely, well
designed, and contains a wide array of information. Check it out, and you'll
agree. Constructivist Learning Design
I like what I found here. A great mix of the theoretical and practical. It is a different
point of view that will broaden and deepen your understanding of teaching and learning. EBoard: This is a neat idea for
teachers. Set up a message board in about two minutes. Post assignments, announcements,
outlines, etc., for your students. Pro Teacher.
I found this site to
contain very useful and well organized information, especially for new teachers. Instructional
Media Integration. A site set up by Mark Johnson
of the Arlington Virginia School system. It is an excellent source of information. Education Week.
One of the best
overall sites for information about education. Studies, surveys, news, help - it's all
here! Mrs. Young's
Supercharged Educational Voyage.This is simply a super site!. Well organized, and has links to a wealth of
information for parents, teachers, and students. A must visit resource. Stephen Carr's Education Page. A great site for links to many resources for
teachers, parents, and students. Lights,
Camera, Action! This is a new site that has
great resources and links. One to watch! Lucky Duck Education Resources.
This is a site located in the United Kingdom. It contains a wealth of information on
classroom and behavior management. Please take a look, and you'll find quality information
and materials. The Thomas B.
Fordham Foundation. This site has so much
information it's impossible to describe here. It is concerned with the general improvement
of education and has a great number of reports, studies, and articles, as well as links to
other resources. It's a serious site and one worth visiting. The West
Genessee Teachers' Association. A site by
teachers for teachers, it has some great links to the Internet. Mount St. Helens
-- Images/ Stories/Curriculum A huge and graphically intensive Web resource
covering every aspect of the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington
State, USA . U.S. Department of Education A
comprehensive site that has many links and education document sources for educators and
students. Web MuseumA comprehensive list
of museums on the Internet. There are many mirror sites here. National Teaching and Learning Forum A
site that features a variety of discussions regarding education, from university. Here you
will find hundreds of questions, answers, and opinions about education. Educator's Reference Desk
A comprehensive source of education information . Education Place A free on-line
educational resource sponsored by Houghton Mifflin. Activities for teachers and students,
classroom activities, virtual field trips, on-line educational games for students, even a
link for parents! Worth the visit. Free things for Educators
You'll like this colorful site. It is operated by a school teacher and has a fantastic
array of ideas and links to free materials for teachers. New teachers will especially like
this.
Getting Help:
Some good places to go to get help on the Internet.
1UpInfo: This is a superior
portal - an encyclopedia and reference resource. A definite asset for anyone,
especially teachers and students. Ask Jeeves:
A
great site for searching for answers to questions. You enter the question and Ask Jeeves
provides direct answers and links to sites that have your keywords. It's unique and one of
the best resources for teachers and students. My Virtual Reference Desk:
By all means, check out this site! It has information on just about every topic, links to
all the major search engines, an electronic encyclopedia; in short, one of the most
valuable sites you can visit. Starting Point:
This site has it all. Topics arranged by categories with links to just about everything.
Education
Organizations
There are many organizations that provide information and services to education in
general. From providing funding for innovative projects, to serving a clearinghouses for a
vast array of information dealing with education, organizations can provide parents,
teachers, and students with invaluable resources.
Cramster Math Help: Cramster is a global online study
community centered on providing understanding to math questions
whether it's related to homework, exam preparation or general
learning. Visual Math
Learning: Understanding Mathematics through insight, concept and
perception. This site has free tutorials with narration.
Well worth a visit! Math and Reading Help for Kids
is a site devoted to providing a great variety of resources that are useful
for teachers and students. Funbrain.comis
a site to behold. Great activities, puzzles, and games. For kids and teachers. Time Table Rhymeemploys powerful visual and auditory memory
techniques and has links to good resources. Interactive
Math Website: This is a new site with impressive content and features.
It is well organized and useful for both teachers and students. Math Baseball: Test your skills at different
levels. A great mind exercise. Math Projects: This site
has many resources for math teachers, including a newsletter. Give it a look, you won't be
sorry. Homepage for new
math teachers: Really good ideas for new math teachers. MathMol (Mathematics and Molecules)
developed by the NYU/ACF Scientific Visualization Center, is designed to serve as an
introductory starting point, providing K-12 students and teachers with basic concepts in
mathematics and their connection to molecular modeling. Some very easy to use on-line
experiments for all K-12 levels. Math Forum at Drexel University PBS Mathline Elementary,
middle and high school math projects. Women Mathematicians
Some real surprises here. The Explorer is part of
the Unified Network Informatics Technology for Education (UNITE) efforts at the University
of Kansas. These resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans) are
currently for K-12 mathematics. Interactive Mathematics Online Math Mania: An award winning
site. History of Mathematics:
This site includes biographies of mathematicians, chronologies and much more. Worth
a visit! Brain Teasers:
A neat
site sponsored by Houghton Mifflin. It has brain teasers of the week, solutions and
archives of past puzzles. Students can submit answers directly.
Miscellaneous (English
grammar, ESOL, TESOL, 504 Plans, IDEA, Music, Higher Education Stress
Management)
Google! the # 1
search engine is a fantastic, intelligent search engine that
reports results in a logical way. Wisenut is an up-and-coming
search engine that in many ways is superior to Google. Teoma is another interesting search
engine. Relevant results, but the database is not as large as others. Vivisimo is a search system that
gathers results from other search engines and displays them in convenient and
powerful ways. Really worth a look. Ixquick
is a very powerful metasearch
engine that has unique features. I tried it and highly recommend it. All the Web
is a search
engine that returns results as fast as any. It's comprehensive and well designed. 555-1212 includes telephone directories for U.S.
and foreign listings. AltaVista
is one of the oldest search engines and one of the best. BigBook indexes businesses. Starting Point is another "portal" type search
engine. Excite derives summaries of pages based on dominant
themes. Dogpile is another metasearch engine that is very
fast HotBot exploits parallel processing for
fast results. Infoseek offers free personal news services. Lycos, named after Lycosidae, ground spiders that
catch their prey by pursuit. Metacrawler searches many engines
simultaneously. Search is a good, reliable search engine. WebCrawler has a new look and some new features. Yahoo categorizes information based on predefined
criteria. Yahooligans is a search engine designed for K-12
students. Euroseek is a search engine that has thousands of
sites not listed on other engines. It's different and worth a look.
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