CECS 5400

Educational Telecommunications 

Fall 2002 

Internet Resources

EDUCATIONAL and K-12 SITES:

Academe This Week - The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Ask Eric - Great resource site for teachers, library media specialists, and administrators.
ATPE - Association of Texas Professional Educators.
BEST - Best Education Sites Today. Excellent educational search tool.
Canada's SchoolNet - Take a look and see what our neighbor to the North is up to.
Classroom Connect - Resource center for teachers.
Global School - One of the best Education Sites on the Internet.
Hillside Project - Example of one elementary school's efforts on the Internet.
Kid's Web - A digital library for schoolkids.
Learner Online - Resource center for teachers.
Los Alamos - Example of one middle school's efforts on the Internet
North Pole Project - Example of one school district's efforts on the Internet.
Online Educator - An online magazine for teachers.
PTA - National PTA web site.
Quest - NASA's K-12 Internet initiative.
TASB - Texas Association of School Boards.
TCET - Texas Center for Educational Technology.
TCTA - Texas Classroom Teachers Association.
TCEA - Texas Computer Education Association.
TxDLA - Texas Distance Learning Association.
TEA - Texas Education Agency.
TENET - Texas Education Network.
TLA - Texas Library Association.
TxPTA - Texas PTA web site.
TRESC - Texas Regional Education Service Centers.
TSD - Texas School Districts.
TTIF - Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund.
Yahooligans - Kids version of the famous search engine.

SEARCH ENGINE SITES:

All Internet Searches - From Microsoft Network. Searches multiple databases.
Alta Vista - From Digital Corp. Very fast - searches text with user defined parameters.
ElNet Galaxy - Searches with boolean operators.
Excite Netsearch - Searches Web Documents, Usenet Newsgroups, Web Reviews, and Recent Classified Ads
InfoSeek - Searches databases. Some are free and some you must pay for.
Lycos - Searches on document titles and content.
Metasearch - Searches text with several user defined parameters.
Personal Seek - Searches personal and non-commercial web pages only.
Search.Com - The best over-all web site for searching anything on the net. Over 250 databases to choose from.
Web Crawler - Search contents from user keyword input.
YAHOO - Searches by topic categories.

SOFTWARE SITES:

Galt Shareware Zone - This site stresses quality over quantity. 200 of the best shareware packages available.
Jumbo Shareware - Over 59,000 shareware packages available for downloading.
Stroud's CWSA - The Consummate WinSock Applications List.
Tucows - The Ultimate Collection of WinSock Software.
Virtual Software Library - From C\NET - searches for any type shareware you might need.

VIDEO CONFERENCING:

Communique! - Full featured desktop video conferencing from Insoft.
CU-SeeMe - Rocketcharged.com's CU-SeeMe cool site..
Enhanced CU-SeeMe - This commercial product from White Pine is an enhancement over the original.
VidCall - A video conferencing product from MRA associates, Inc.

updated Aug. 2002