Educational Resources 

This page was created by Dr. Rhonda Christensen and is now maintained by Theresa Overall

Teaching Tips (http://www.unl.edu/teaching/Teachtips.html)

The Teaching and Learning Center at University of Lincoln Nebraska features this current catalog of suggestions for college teachers who are looking for fresh ways of creating the best possible environment for learning. Suggestions were gathered from UNL professors and from college teachers elsewhere. The UNL Learning Center also features a newsletter, teaching initiatives, and Internet resources.

You Can Handle Them All (http://www.disciplinehelp.com/)

This site shares a step-by-step approach to handling misbehavior at home and in school. An overview examines the causes of misbehavior, the core needs that motivate humans, and a four-step discipline model. A behavior index applies the model to over 100 specific misbehaviors.

The New Teacher Page (http://www.new-teacher.com)

This site offers advice, ideas, and links for education students, student teachers, first-year teachers, teacher certification candidates, and those who think maybe, just maybe, they'd like to be an educator someday.

Helping Your Students With Homework: A Guide for Teachers (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/HelpingStudents/)

Homework is a source of frustration for many teachers. That's why Nancy Paulu of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research & Improvement (OERI) produced this site. Filled with ideas from teachers for helping make homework effective, the site is organized around 18 tips for getting homework done. Parents may want to browse Helping your Child With Homework, a related site published in 1995.

From: Jerry Taylor , Technology Integration Teacher, Greece, NY School District (http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/taylor/) (Compliments of Blue Web'n.)

Beginning Teacher's Tool Box (http://www.inspiringteachers.com)
This site offers everything from an "Ask Our Mentor a Question" section where you can e-mail questions or concerns to a veteran teacher, to "Tips for New Teachers" (click "archives") that include inspiration, humor, and the top 10 things to do before school starts.

Teachers Helping Teachers (http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html)
"By teachers, for teachers" is the goal of this site. Middle school teacher Scott Mandel and other contributing educators provide
basic teaching tips to beginning teachers--things that they can immediately implement in the classroom. It offers lesson plans and has features like "Poem of the Week" and "This Week's Stress Reduction Moment." This site also has a list of education Web sites organized by subject area and topic.

Teachers.net: Mentor Support Center (http://www.teachers.net)
Beginning teachers will definitely want to check out the "Mentor Support Center" from Teachers.net. This feature (click "chatboards") brings together educators in category-specific chats, such as the chatboard specifically for beginning teachers. The site also includes lesson plans, live meetings, a bookshelf with a list of useful resources, and a newsletter.

I Love Teaching.com (http://www.iloveteaching.com)
Designed to encourage new teachers and those studying to be teachers, I Love Teaching.com offers the experiences and wisdom of a veteran teacher.

What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/)
The U.S. Dept. of Education offers this FREE online book (in PDF format): a compilation of award-winning first-year teachers' experiences, challenges, and successes. It includes tips on how to have a successful first year, advice from veteran teachers, and a discussion about the things for which no training could have prepared new teachers.

Tammy's Tidbits (http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tbushey/educ.html)
This page was designed for teachers, students, and parents as a shortcut to finding some of the best educational sites on the internet.

Digital Gadgets for Your Classroom (http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/gadgets.html)
This page showcases sites that support the use of handhelds, digital cameras, camcorders, and other "gadgets" in the K-12
classroom.

Evaluating Websites
 

Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Guide (http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html)

Criteria for Evaluating Websites (http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/)

Evaluating Websites: Criteria and Tool (http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/nyla/webeval.html)

Evaluating Web Resources  (http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm)

Links to Web Evaluation Materials (http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/cklstlnk.htm)
 
 

Internet Searching

Tutorial: Guide to Effective Searching of the Web (http://www.thewebtools.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm)

Internet Scavenger Hunts or WebQuests (http://exit3.i-55.com/~vickib/hunts.html)
 
 

Listservs/Newsgroups

Liszt , the Mailing List Directory (http://www.liszt.com/)
Offers over 90,000 mailing lists. You can search the directory, or you can browse through categories and finetune it from there.

The Newsletter Library (http://pub.savvy.com/)
This site offers over 11,000 free newsletters, and you may choose whichever categories are of interest.

Special Education Links

The Special Education Home Page   (http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/specialed/)

Attention Deficit Disorder: Born to Explore! The Other Side of ADD (http://borntoexplore.org/)

Attention Deficit Disorder   (http://add.miningco.com/)

All the answers you need to help youth with ADD/ADHD (http://www.youthchg.com/nws1adhd.html)

LD Resources (http://www.ldresources.com/)

LD OnLine: Learning Disabilities Resources (http://www.ldonline.org/)

Dyslexia Success Stories (http://www.greenwoodinstitute.org/resources/ressuc.html)

The George Lucas Educational Foundation (http://www.glef.org/)

Special Needs Education (SNE) Project Welcome (http://www.schoolnet.ca/sne/)

IDEA Practices (http://www.ideapractices.org/)

Special Education Materials for Teachers  (http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/speced/)

"Schoolhouse Views" by Beth Bruno, School Psychologist (http://www.teachers.net/FAQ/schoolhouse/bruno12.html)

Technology Enhanced Lesson Plans

A Collection of Technology-Integrated Lesson Plans  Links (http://courseweb.tac.unt.edu/rhondac/lp.htm)

K-12 Links for Teachers and Students (http://www.geocities.com/tmartiac//k12/links.htm)
This is a rich set of links for software, Internet projects, reference websites, lesson plan resources, . . .
 
 

EduTech Articles

CECS 4100 Supplemental Readings (http://courseweb.tac.unt.edu/rhondac/readings.html)

Constructing Webpages

Internet Pocket Guide for Teachers (http://www.genium.com/ipgt/)
 

The Free Site (http://www.thefreesite.com/freewebpages.htm)
There are literally hundreds of sites that allow you to have free home pages. For a list of them, see The Free Site.

Fun Clip Art

Free Educational Clip Art (http://www.teacherfiles.com)

Web Clip Art (http://webclipart.miningco.com/internet/design/webclipart/)

Downloads

Windows PowerPoint Viewer (http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx)

Mac PowerPoint Viewer(http://www.microsoft.com/MAC/download/OFFICE98/powerpoint98viewer.asp)

RealPlayer (http://www.real.com/)

MicroWorlds Player --this is necessary to view MicroWorlds projects on the web
(http://www.microworlds.com/webplayer/index.html)

Netiquette

E-mail Netiquette (http://songweaver.com/netiquette.html)

Guide to Emoticons (http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm)

Using E-mail Effectively -- including composition, etiquette, organization, privacy and security (http://curly.cis.unf.edu/emailtips/emailtips.html)
 
 

Bloom's Taxonomy (http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html)

Bloom's Taxonomy's Model Questions and Key Words (http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1414.html)

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (http://users.mwci.net/~sauer/links.htm)

The Center for Problem-Based Learning (http://www.imsa.edu/team/cpbl/cpbl.html )
 
 

Copyright in the Classroom

To Copy or Not to Copy: That is the Question (http://www.aea2.k12.ia.us/Tutorials/Copyright/Copyright_.html)
 

Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003 (http://www.wtvi.com/teks/02_03_articles/copyright.html)
 

Handhelds in the Classroom

Learning in Hand-- This web page shares the experiences of a 5th grade classroom in Omaha Nebraska as they explore the advantages of handheld computing in education (http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/p5/handhelds/index.html)

Handhelds in Schools -- a great book on using Palms in the classroom by Neal Topp and others from University of Nebraska at Omaha (http://www.unocoe.unomaha.edu/handhelds/)

The Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education (Hi-CE) at University of Michigan, has designed some fabulous free software for educational usage of handhelds in the classroom. (http://www.hi-ce.org/palm)